Global Issues
News headlines
Lawmakers Work to Build Women’s Representation in Politics and the Workplace
- Inter Press Service
SARAJEVO & JOHANNESBURG, May 30 (IPS) - Jelena Pekić, MP of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (House of People) and Deputy Speaker of the Canton Sarajevo Assembly, Lana Prlić, MP of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (House of Representatives) and Marina Riđić, Assistant Representative, UNFPA Bosnia and Herzegovina, spoke to IPS ahead of the Study Tour on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
If This Isn’t Genocide, What Is?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 30 (IPS) - For over a year, I refused to ascribe Israel's war against Hamas and the reign of horror it is inflicting on the Palestinians in Gaza as genocide, but now I feel shaken to the core by what I am witnessing. If what I see is not genocide, then I do not know what is.
Africa in Control of Its Digital Future: Mobilising Domestic Resources & Strategic Partnerships
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Tunisia/ ABUJA, Nigeria, May 30 (IPS) - AAs political, financial and social leaders met on 27 May 2025 in Abidjan, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, for the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB), the continent stands at a crucial turning point. Digitalisation can be the engine of inclusive and resilient development, but only if approached with local leadership and strategic vision.
UN’s lifesaving programmes under threat as budget crisis hits hard
- UN News
The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured.
‘This is not just ice’: Glaciers support human livelihoods, UN deputy chief says
- UN News
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for urgent action to protect water-related ecosystems in remarks to the International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Friday.
‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism
- UN News
Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member states and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday.
World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti
- UN News
In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school.
Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins
- UN News
In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The square, transformed into a sprawling displacement camp, shelters hundreds of families driven from their homes by more than 19 months of war.
Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns
- UN News
For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try.
Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid
- UN News
Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday.
Powered by
