By Chloe Bryer, Azza Karam, Ruth Messinger and Negina Yari NEW YORK, Jan 12 2023 (IPS) - Can you imagine what it would be like if women were simply not allowed to step outside of their homes, let...
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Libya + 1 more
A Crisis Deepens in Libya but Where Are the Cameras?
By Lansana Gberie, Africa Renewal UNITED NATIONS, Feb 16 2018 (IPS) - Perhaps no major political or humanitarian disaster is as overlooked as the ongoing crisis in Libya. For example, although the...
France + 1 more
Aid Workers Under Pressure in Calais
Helen Griffiths (@GriffithsH_) is with the children’s rights division at Human Rights Watch. Nov 30 2017 (IPS) - It was mid-morning in late June, but the warehouse in Calais was dark, cold, and...
One of the World’s Most Dangerous Places For Aid Workers
By António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 2017 (IPS) - I will travel to the Central African Republic early next week to spend United Nations Day with a...
Murder of UN Investigator Puts Congo Under Mounting Pressure
By Linda Flood NEW YORK, Jun 7 2017 (IPS) - The United Nations is stepping up pressure on Congo to ascertain the reasons for the brutal murder of Swedish Zaida Catalán who was investigating human...
World + 2 more
Attacks on medical workers in war zones under fire
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 2016 (IPS) - The growing number of indiscriminate bombings in three of the most devastating military conflicts currently underway -– in Syria, Afghanistan and...
Syria + 1 more
U.N. Staffers Caught in Deadly Crossfire in Ongoing Conflicts
By Thalif Deen KUWAIT CITY, Mar 31 2015 (IPS) - The deadly Syrian military conflict – now entering its fifth year – which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 mostly civilians, including women,...
La ayuda humanitaria en un mundo bajo fuego
VIENA, 12 mar 2015 (IPS) - Ante el creciente número de crisis que tienen lugar simultáneamente en el mundo, las organizaciones de ayuda humanitaria, muchas de las cuales ya alcanzaron su límite...
U.N. Field Operations Deadlier Every Year
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14 2015 (IPS) – The widespread field operations of the United Nations – primarily in conflict zones in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – continue to be some of the...
South Sudan + 1 more
South Sudan Heads towards Famine Amid ‘Descent into Lawlessness’
JUBA, South Sudan , Aug 14 2014 (IPS) - Another deadline has passed. But instead of bringing about peace, the leaders of South Sudan’s warring parties have allowed the country to continue its slide...
Getting into CAR, When so Many Want to Get Out
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 4 2014 (IPS) - In a country suffering from what the U.N. has called “ethno-religious cleansing”, a “disappeared” state structure and “unacceptable sectarian brutality,” gaining...
Doctor Abductions Leave Patients Helpless
By Ashfaq Yusufzai Doctors in the Pakistani frontier provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan are running scared after nearly 45 consultants were kidnapped for ransom this year. Police suspect...
Q&A: Colombia Still in the Icy Grip of Impunity
By Alexander Chaves UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 2013 (IPS) - Death threats are hardly uncommon in Colombia. In fact, if you are a human rights activist, it is practically guaranteed. Just ask Diego...
Somali Officials Back Terrorists Against Aid
ADDIS ABABA , Aug 16 2013 (IPS) - Foreign aid workers are increasingly becoming targets of corrupt officials within the Somali government and the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab. “The government...
Taliban Ban Has Crippling Effects on Children
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan , Jul 11 2013 (IPS) - Four-year-old Muhammad Jihad is handicapped, and his parents know who to blame: the Taliban. Jihad’s father, Muhammad Rishad, says the boy...
Syria + 1 more
In Besieged Refugee Camp, Syrian Medics Struggle to Provide
BEIRUT, Jun 5 2013 (IPS) - It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah’s house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the...
Taliban Show Patients No Mercy
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, May 1 2013 (IPS) - Akbar Shah was sitting with his sick wife in the gynaecology ward of the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Bajaur Agency, a division of northern...
Zimbabwe + 1 more
Clampdown on CSOs Worldwide
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 29 2013 (IPS) - As Zimbabwe is expected to head to the polls in a little less than two months, clampdowns on civil society in that southern African nation have increased, according...
Who Will Aid the Aid Workers?
KARACHI, Mar 23 2013 (IPS) - Fifty-six-year-old Perween Rehman had dedicated her life to humanitarian work. As head of the Orangi Pilot Project’s Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), she spent...
Gaddafi Loyalists Up In Arms
By Mel Frykberg TRIPOLI, Aug 14 2012 (IPS) - The security situation in Libya remains tense as violence by way of car bombings, political assassinations of high-ranking government and military...