News stories by Lyndal Rowlands, page 10

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 11 (IPS) - Calls for low and middle income countries to contribute an additional 6.1 billion dollars to the global HIV response by 2020 could see some vulnerable groups left behind, said HIV activists meeting at the United Nations last week.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 07 (IPS) - Diabetes, which now affects more than 400 million people worldwide, is closely linked to poverty in most regions of the world, World Health Organization Medical Officer Alessandro Demaio told IPS Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 04 (IPS) - Land mines are not the only type of explosive devices that families returning home after conflicts risk stumbling across, representatives from the UN's Mine Action Service (UNMAS) told journalists here Monday.

Kampala / New York, Mar 07 (IPS) - Anna Gamusi, has been growing ‘matooke' - plantains - for over 20 years. She originally learnt how to grow them in her home village of Busolwe in Eastern Uganda, but says that they are no longer grown there.

UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - "We can really argue as much as we want but if we put ourselves in the skin of victims, we just have to do something to stop this."

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (IPS) - Public funds are vitally important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making corporate tax avoidance trends a pressing issue for post-2015 Financing for Development discussions.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has called for globalised human compassion to combat the global and persistent problems of child labour and child slavery.

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) - 2015 marks anniversaries for two significant commitments made to increasing women's participation at peace tables.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Two hundred million fewer women have access to the internet than men, according to a report released Monday.