The Maasa are among Kenya’s pastoralist communities, particularly vulnerable to trachoma. The dusty environment they inhabit ...

Riad Meddeb, Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub at the UNDP, stressed the urgency of finding innovative financial climate ...

Gang violence has ravaged Haiti, causing thousands of civilian deaths, displacements, and violations of international ...

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UNEP's Head of Impact Assessment and Adaptation, Henry Neufeldt, has called for increased climate adaptation funding, ...

Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to humanity. Recent science estimates that we may have less than six ...

On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief statement commending the people ...

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 2024 (IPS) - On November 6, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the second round of polio vaccinations in the Gaza Strip has been completed. A total of 556,744 ...

The Arab region is among the most water-scarce regions, as nearly 392 million people live in countries facing water scarcity ...

A small incident in the mounting mayhem of the 2024 elections crystalized the state of the dark art of politics in these ...

To make peace with nature, we must first make peace with ourselves because wars are won at the most devastating impacts of ...

NEW YORK, Nov 1 2024 (IPS) - The United Nations, established in 1945 at the end of World War II, has sadly virtually outlived ...