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This article is a collaboration between SPC and Inter Press Service (IPS) and was originally published on IPS website. Written by Catherine Wilson. The Pacific Islands region is both the frontline of...

This article is a collaboration between SPC and Inter Press Service (IPS) and was originally published on IPS website. Parliamentary representation by women in Pacific Island countries remains...

By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Sep 6 2024 (IPS) - Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared...

By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 2024 (IPS) - The ongoing humanitarian crisis taking place in Sudan, which is a result of the civil war which began last year, continues to escalate as hunger...

By Ghulam Isaczai BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug 28 2024 (IPS) - Climate change and water scarcity pose significant threats to Iraq’s stability, prosperity, and the well-being of its people. The environmental...

IDLIB, Syria, Aug 22 2024 (IPS) - Pregnant women in northern Syria’s camps for internally displaced people fear about their health and the health of their unborn children because of a lack of basic...

By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 9 2024 (IPS) - The over 20 million residents of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, in Sindh province in particular, have been experiencing brutal heat since...

By Jamison Ervin and Anna Giulia Medri UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 2024 (IPS) - This year’s Equator Prize winners are the antidote we need in a world of crisis. Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum...

By Betty Kabari NAIROBI, Jul 31 2024 (IPS) - International African Women’s Day on July 31 recognizes the contribution of African women toward political, social, and economic freedom on the continent...

By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Jul 19 2024 (IPS) - Rights groups have called for governments to do more to combat transnational repression as a series of recent reports show growing numbers of exiled...

By Kizito Makoye In a quest for survival, farmers and pastoralists living in Oldonyo Sambu, Tanzania’s northern Maasai Steppe, used to fight over every drop of water. However, 12 villages have now...

By Robert Kibet NAIROBI, Jul 15 2024 (IPS) - In the heart of Empash village, a fragmented community nestled in Suswa, Narok County, some 62 miles northwest of Nairobi, Naomy Kolian’s story unfolds...

By Randa El Ozeir BEIRUT & TORONTO, Jul 8 2024 (IPS) - This summer is bringing an additional challenge to the public health front in Lebanon, along with higher-than-normal temperatures. An uptick in...

Kenya’s need for climate finance is great—the country has been battered by climate change-related disasters for years—but as this analysis shows, the arrangements remain opaque, leaving the affected...

By Sonia Al Ali DLIB, Syria, Jun 18 2024 (IPS) - Twelve-year-old Walid Al-Hussein, displaced from the city of Kafranbel to a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in northern Idlib on the border...

By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, May 17 2024 (IPS) - Rising temperatures are being blamed for an increase in human-wildlife conflicts in Zimbabwe as animals such as snakes leave their natural...

By Kingsley Ighobor UNITED NATIONS, May 6 2024 (IPS) - The United Nations Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) supports the promotion of the rule of law, security, and peace in...

By Doja Daoud NEW YORK, May 1 2024 (IPS) - Diaa Al-Kahlout, the veteran Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, had been covering the Israel-Gaza war for...

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 1 2024 (IPS)- The seven- month-long war in Gaza is perhaps the only military conflict in contemporary history which has claimed the lives of over 100 journalists,...

By Issa Sikiti da Silva COTONOU/BENIN , Apr 26 2024 (IPS) - A group of young girls aged between 15 and 17 sit tight, following attentively a lesson being taught by a Mualim (Islamic teacher) in a...