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  1. Conflict driving hunger crisis in Sudan, UN officials tell Security Council

    - UN News

    Eleven months of brutal fighting is driving a hunger crisis in Sudan, with some areas likely to experience catastrophic levels of food insecurity by the lean season in May, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.

  2. UN report details ‘climate of fear’ in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine

    - UN News

    Russia has instilled a pervasive atmosphere of fear in the occupied regions of Ukraine, perpetrating egregious violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in an attempt to cement its control, according to a new report from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, released on Wednesday.

  3. ‘Currently unsafe to return’ to Belarus, Human Rights Council hears

    - UN News

    With the number of political prisoners growing and a shutdown of civic space, people in Belarus are being deprived of their rights to freedom of expression, assembly and more, a new UN human rights report presented on Wednesday has revealed.

  4. First Person: Water key to cultivating financial independence in southern Madagascar

    - UN News

    Women in one of the poorest parts of rural Madagascar are growing their financial independence from men by cultivating village land and selling their produce.

  5. Gaza: Less than 1 in 2 UN aid missions allowed into northern zones this month

    - UN News

    Less than half of the UN aid convoys planned for Gaza’s hunger-ravaged north have made it so far this month, despite repeated appeals from the international community to ramp up relief to more than one million people on the brink of starvation, UN humanitarians said on Wednesday.

  6. Democracy’s Contested Territory

    - Inter Press Service

    MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 19 (IPS) - This year more than half the world’s population has the chance to go to the polls. That might make it look like the most democratic year ever, but the reality is more troubling. Too many of those elections won’t give people a real say and won’t offer any opportunity for change.

  7. How A Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for US Mayors & Across the Globe

    - Inter Press Service

    ACCRA / NEW YORK, Mar 19 (IPS) - For the past eight years, Chiso has collected waste as part of Accra’s informal waste management sector. Since arriving in Ghana from Nigeria, he has earned enough to allow him and his family to survive, but saving money has been nearly impossible.

  8. Exploring New Depths: NF-POGO Centre of Excellence Driving Innovative, Diverse Ocean Observation

    - Inter Press Service

    DOMINICA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Picture yourself as an early-career ocean researcher. You have the opportunity to be at sea in addition to learning on campus. Through cutting-edge technology and immersive facilities, you experience the most realistic ocean exploration scenarios, including braving extreme cold and harsh environments. That’s the experience at the Launch, a 'living lab' at the Marine Institute of Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the east coast of Canada. It’s an experience meant to prepare you for the real-world complexities of the type of ocean research needed to tackle urgent global issues like climate change.

  9. World News in Brief: $236 billion a year profit from forced labour, Senegal election update, peacekeepers in Lebanon

    - UN News

    Forced labour is happening all over the world and it’s earning criminal gangs an astonishing $236 billion a year – $64 billion more than a decade ago, UN researchers said on Tuesday.

  10. UN rights expert urges global action to halt Myanmar junta atrocities

    - UN News

    The UN independent human rights expert on Myanmar called on the international community on Tuesday to take strong, coordinated action to protect civilians from ongoing atrocities committed by the military junta’s forces.

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