News headlines in 2015, page 100

BUENOS AIRES, Mar 17 (IPS) - In the wake of the fire that destroyed more than 34,000 hectares of forests, some of them ancient, in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, the authorities will have to put out flames that are no less serious: the new socio-environmental catastrophe that will emerge from the ashes.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - An internal United Nations expert report released Monday by the non-governmental organisation AIDS-Free World reveals serious contradictions in the U.N.'s reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse by U.N. peacekeepers.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - Governments must do more to address the impacts of forced disappearances of women, according to an international justice report released Monday.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on Monday, appointed an independent panel of experts to examine new information that has emerged from the investigation into the death of former U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. 

SENDAI, Japan, Mar 16 (IPS) - Women play a critical role in reducing disaster risk and planning and decision-making during and after disasters strike, according to senior United Nations, government and civil society representatives.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - 2015 marks anniversaries for two significant commitments made to increasing women's participation at peace tables.

BALI, Indonesia, Mar 16 (IPS) - Over the past three decades, 50 percent of the 544,150 square kilometres that comprise Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, has been taken over by the palm oil industry.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 16 (IPS) - The ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen have helped spiral arms sales upwards to the Middle East, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

NEW YORK, Mar 16 (IPS) - It is estimated that women account for two-thirds of the 1.4 billion people currently living in extreme poverty. They also make up 60 per cent of the world's 572 million working poor.