Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of attacks on students, teachers and schools, resulting in an “incalculable cost” for children affected by conflict around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a message commemorating the International Day to Protect Education from Attack on Monday.

As conflicts grow more complex and armed groups increasingly weaponize low-cost technologies like improvised explosive devices and drones, UN peacekeeping missions need greater political support and resources to carry out their duties safely, a senior UN official said on Monday.

Cluster bomblets continue to kill thousands of civilians, mostly children, and the new use of this predominantly outlawed class of weapons is threatening efforts to universally ban them, according to a new report published on Monday.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered his annual global update on Monday, urging the international community to reject a “new normal” that upholds entrenched power structures at the expense of our common humanity.

Sudan’s health system is “near collapse” after 16 months of war have left the country and its people facing what the UN’s top health official described on Sunday as the “perfect storm of crises”, which the world is largely ignoring.

The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 06 (IPS) - Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared the floods to be the country's worst climate disaster in recent memory. These recent floods follow the wake of Cyclone Remal, which devastated Bangladesh and West Bengal earlier this year.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Sep 06 (IPS) - With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don't want to hear any backtalk. Silence is complicity, and that's the way Israel's allies like it.

GREAT RIFT VALLEY, Kenya, Sep 06 (IPS) - Between 2001 and 2022, the Mau Forest's deforestation resulted in the loss of about 533 square kilometers of tree cover. Now, a group of women, under the aegis of the Paran Women Group, are preparing to plant 100,000 saplings this rainy season in an effort to restore the forest.The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south. A breathtaking, diverse mix of natural beauty that includes dramatic escarpments, highland mountains, cliffs and gorges, lakes and savannas. It is also home to one of Africa's greatest wildlife reserves—the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

SHNGIMALWLEIN, India, Sep 06 (IPS) - Kmoin Wahlang, a 76-year-old woman, starts her running training every morning at 4 a.m. Dressed in track pants, a jacket, and running shoes, she sets out to navigate the hilly terrain of the small village of Shngimawlein in the southwest Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.