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Mexico Experiments With Residential Solar Panels, But They Are Still Insufficient
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO, September 15 (IPS) - Over the past four months, Mexican researcher Nicolás Velázquez has paid around US$23 for electricity, thanks to the photovoltaic system installed in his home in the northern city of Mexicali.
Inside Africa’s Big Bet on Youth to Feed the Continent and Who’s Actually Getting Funded
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, September 15 (IPS) - Winnie Wambui leans forward on the panel stage, microphone in hand, scanning the room until she spots a raised hand.
Why Collective Healing is Central to Peacebuilding
- Inter Press Service
BENGALURU, India, September 15 (IPS) - Wars and oppression leave behind not just rubble and graves. They leave behind invisible wounds, profound trauma carried by survivors. And most often, women carry the largest burden. They are targeted not only because of their gender, but because surviving and leading threaten structures based on patriarchy and domination.
UN’s humanitarian work is ‘underfunded, overstretched, and under attack’
- UN News
“Underfunded, overstretched and under attack” is how the United Nation’s top aid official has referred to the UN and the support it is providing to the humanitarian sector.
Deadly attacks and collapsing services push Sudan closer to catastrophe
- UN News
The United Nations has sounded the alarm over Sudan’s spiralling crisis, warning that deadly attacks in El Fasher, the collapse of essential services, and mass displacement are pushing millions in Darfur and beyond closer to catastrophe.
UN condemns ‘deadly escalation’ in Gaza City
- UN News
The United Nations has condemned the deadly Israeli military offensive in Gaza City that occurred this past weekend, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday.
World News in Brief: Pandemic treaty update, DR Congo Ebola response, more casualties in Ukraine
- UN News
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Monday for countries to overcome the remaining obstacles to concluding the global pandemic treaty.
United Nations revises 2026 regular budget proposal, pairing cost reductions with initial reform measures
- UN News
The United Nations has finalised the revised estimates for its 2026 proposed programme budget, outlining more than $500 million in reductions, while also introducing the first measures of the UN80 Initiative - a wider effort to make the Organisation more effective and resilient as it marks its 80th anniversary.
Gender equality: UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action
- UN News
More than 351 million women and girls could still be living in extreme poverty by the end of the decade if current trends persist.
IAEA chief urges countries to recommit to nuclear non-proliferation
- UN News
At the start of the 69th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Monday, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi spoke about the nuclear challenges the world faces and called on States to “recommit” to non-proliferation.
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