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Impacts affect livelihoods and fuel displacement and continued instability. Additionally, they can persist even after fights have ended. In Sierra Leone, for example, “When the guns fell silent in 2002…
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Speaking at the closing press conference, UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said the summit marked a “deliberate shift” from identifying gaps to acting on proven solutions. “Copenhagen taught us…
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Delegates from all regions reaffirmed that social justice and peace are inseparable, calling for stronger safety nets, poverty reduction and human rights-based policymaking. Thirty years after the historic 1995 Copenhagen…
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With nearly 14,000 participants registered for the Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentCurrently underway in Doha, the gathering has become a meeting place for governments, global organizations and community voices…
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According to a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published Thursday, 10,200 hectares were under opium cultivation this year, compared to 12,800 hectares in…
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“We are deeply alarmed by increasing reports of serious violations against civilians,” Haq said, citing accounts of “executions, sexual violence, humiliation, extortion and attacks” following the capture of El Fasher,…
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Relations between the neighboring countries remain deeply affected by the war in Sudan, where the national army and its former allies, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have been fighting for…
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According to UN-backed hunger experts, more than half the population – or around 7.56 million people – will face “crisis or even more severe levels of hunger” between April and…
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Estimates indicate that one in five children under the age of three have not received any doses or been vaccinated because of the war, putting them at risk of outbreaks…
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It sounds like science fiction, even magic: the ability to communicate, control a computer, or move a robotic limb through the power of thought. However, not only is it possible,…
