KABUL, November 6 (IPS) - In Afghanistan, the Taliban are detaining women, even when they are wearing a hijab. Activists suspect that the issue of attire is merely a pretext used by the Taliban to ...

GENEVA, November 6 (IPS) - A right under pressure - No one disputes freedom of association. It is in the Constitutions of almost every country, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 22 of ...

NAIROBI, November 6 (IPS) - As the world prepares for the 31 st United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye, Kenya’s priorities for the negotiations are being shaped by ...

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are detaining women, even when they are wearing a hijab. Activists suspect that the issue of ...

For years, global discussions of disaster risk in the Pacific have been dominated by climate change. Rising seas, ...

As the world prepares for the 31st United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP31) in Antalya, Türkiye, Kenya’s ...

Afghanistan stands at a “difficult crossroad” more than five years after the Taliban returned to power, a senior UN official ...

A right under pressure No one disputes freedom of association. It is in the Constitutions of almost every country, the ...

Aid teams working to help millions of people uprooted by the ongoing war in Sudan appealed on Friday for more international assistance amid desperate funding shortages, empty warehouses and ...

Drifting through the polar darkness, a team of scientists is documenting a rapidly changing Arctic. As sea ice retreats and oil tankers move in, a conversation with the UN chief reveals why the battle ...

The climate emergency is an immediate crisis for refugees, with three in four – nearly 90 million people – living in countries facing high to severe exposure to hazards such as drought, floods and ...

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and decades of nuclear testing at Semipalatinsk left Japan and Kazakhstan with ...