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Colombia earthquake: UN ramps up aid for 100,000 people
- UN News
The UN is scaling up humanitarian assistance in western Colombia as needs continue to grow following last week’s devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake, according to the latest update released on Tuesday.
Gaza: Only three per cent of cropland available to grow food
- UN News
Amid ongoing deadly hostilities in Gaza, the enclave’s farmers face the increasingly difficult challenge of finding safe land to grow their crops.
Singapore: Independent rights experts urge immediate end to ‘unlawful use’ of death penalty
- UN News
Independent UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Tuesday condemned the execution of at least 16 people in Singapore for drug-related offences this year and urged the country to end its “continued and unlawful use of capital punishment.”
Security Council LIVE: Drone strikes and political impasse in Libya
- UN News
The Security Council is meeting on Libya Tuesday as the country faces a political impasse delaying long-planned elections alongside heatwaves, tensions and violence, including drone strikes last week that left a major oil refinery ablaze. UN News app users can follow here.
Ebola: Motorbike riders carrying the sick may hold key to response boost
- UN News
From the frontlines of the deadliest-ever Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN World Health Organization (WHO) shared details on Tuesday of a massive push for community engagement, a day after yet another ambulance attack.
As Mongolia Hosts COP17, Pastoralists Demand Space to Move, Survive and Restore
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 17 (IPS) - After moving more than 6,000 km across Eurasia, the Silk Road Caravan has reached Mongolia with stories from pastoralists whose livelihoods are increasingly threatened by drought, degraded land and shrinking access to grazing areas.
How Global Aid Cuts are Undermining Women-Led Humanitarian Response in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) - Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs are surging and international support is dwindling.
International Criminal Court Under Attack
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, August 17 (IPS) - In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to ‘dismantle’ the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Trump administration intends to pressure states into quitting the court, threatening sanctions, travel bans, visa restrictions and ‘increased scrutiny’ of states that receive its funding. At stake is the court’s ability to stand with victims of the gravest of human rights crimes.
Western-Led Green Revolution Failing Africa
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 17 (IPS) - As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening failure to double productivity and incomes and halve undernourishment in participating African nations as promised.
Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification
- UN News
As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities, and rising seas are erasing territories. One environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degradation of the land beneath our feet.
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