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Laureates Call For Moonshot Innovation Effort to Avert Hunger Catastrophe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Jan 14 (IPS) - Neglected indigenous crops, rich in nutrition and resilient to climate change, are key to tackling global hunger only if governments invest in research and development (R&D) to tap the potential of such innovations.
How US Media Hide Truths About the Gaza War
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 14 (IPS) - A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine +972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahiya, culminating a nearly week-long siege of the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza.”
US: UN rights expert welcomes court ruling reaffirming sex-based protections in education
- UN News
The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has welcomed a ruling by a federal district court in the United States that reaffirms sex-based protections in education.
World News in Brief: North Gaza under siege, aid to millions in Syria, tensions in Mozambique
- UN News
The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Tuesday reported further attacks on displacement shelters in Gaza which have been ongoing since 9 January.
2025 agenda: ‘We must not let opportunities pass,’ says UN Assembly President
- UN News
The President of the UN General Assembly Philémon Yang presented a detailed vision of his 2025 priorities for the world body on Tuesday, calling it an opportunity for “a new start.”
UN pledges continued humanitarian support to Ukraine, as war enters fourth year
- UN News
The UN’s humanitarian coordinator and refugee chief are in Ukraine this week where they will unveil the latest plans to assist millions impacted by the full-scale Russian invasion.
Iran: UN experts alarmed as Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Kurdish woman activist
- UN News
Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the Iranian Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social worker.
Haiti: spiralling gang violence has left more than one million displaced
- UN News
Surging gang violence in Haiti has caused a threefold rise in the number of people uprooted from their homes in a year, the UN migration agency, IOM, said on Tuesday, in a call for “sustained humanitarian assistance right now to save and protect lives”.
Syria emergency: Four children a day killed by leftover explosives
- UN News
Syria’s lethal legacy of landmines and other explosives left over from years of conflict has led to the deaths of over 100 children in the last month alone, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, calling on the international community to urgently support country-wide demining projects.
Violence Flows in Parts into Mexico from the United States
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO, Jan 13 (IPS) - The case of a man arrested in Texas, in the south of the United States, for shipping arms parts to Mexico immediately caught the attention of authorities in both countries. But it was only one thread in a web that continues to become more and more tangled.
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