Sep 11 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the crackdown on civil society in Togo with a human rights defender who asked to stay anonymous for security reasons.

WASHINGTON DC, Sep 11 (IPS) - Women are leading more central banks than ever before, thanks to appointments in the past year, but recent gains still leave the share of female governors far short of parity.

Collaboration between developing countries, often known as south-south cooperation, can help to solve what a senior UN official has described as the world’s “complex development context.”

The United Nations on Wednesday firmly rejected allegations by the Houthis in Yemen that some UN agencies and partners have been “colluding to destroy” the country’s education system.

A massive disaster response has been launched in Viet Nam following widespread damage inflicted by Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm to hit the South China Sea in almost three decades, the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.

Six staff members with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, were killed in Gaza on Wednesday when two Israeli airstrikes hit a school-turned-shelter and its surroundings.

Negotiations continue ahead of the Summit of the Future at UN Headquarters this month, where world leaders will enhance cooperation to tackle critical challenges facing the international community and address gaps in global governance.

Governments, industry and other key players can now deploy a new action-oriented toolkit to ensure the global energy transition unfolds with equity, justice and sustainability as demand for minerals for renewables is poised to almost triple by 2030, according to a report released on Wednesday by a diverse expert panel convened by the UN chief.

Ongoing violence in Haiti is putting the education of over 100,000 displaced children in the south at risk, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday.

The United Nations joined its host city, New York, in commemorating the 2,977 lives lost on 11 September 2001, when Al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four aircrafts and flew them into buildings in the United States.