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Playing Nuclear Games: Tickling the Tail of the Promethean Nuclear Fire Dragon
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Austria, Oct 08 (IPS) - In recent years, the rhetoric, strategy and practice of nuclear deterrence has grown riskier, more urgent, more dangerous, less stable, and increasingly in the hands of deficient leaders and policymakers.
Agroecology: The Game-Changing Solution to Global Food, Climate and Conflict Crises
- Inter Press Service
TURIN, Italy, Oct 08 (IPS) - Edward Mukiibi, President of Slow Food, champions agroecology as a transformative answer to the world's most pressing crises: food insecurity, climate change, and violent conflicts.
Continued Hostilities in Gaza Threaten the Second Round of Polio Vaccinations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 08 (IPS) - Over the past two months, the polio epidemic in Gaza has slowly mitigated due to response efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN). The first round of the polio vaccination campaign has been largely successful, with around 506,000 children having been immunized. If the Israel authorities allow for further humanitarian pauses, the second round is expected to begin on October 14. However, health officials are concerned that this will be more difficult than expected due to the continuance of deadly attacks in the past few weeks.
UN rights chief warns of ‘widespread and systematic’ torture of Ukrainian POWs
- UN News
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches its 1,000-day mark, the UN’s top human rights official reiterated his call for Russia to cease its attack immediately and comply with its international obligations to protect civilians.
‘Families ran for their lives’: Syria receives 250,000 refugees fleeing Lebanon
- UN News
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has concluded an urgent visit to Syria, highlighting the plight of 250,000 people who have crossed into the country fleeing airstrikes in Lebanon.
‘Alarming’ situation in Great Lakes Region of DR Congo
- UN News
The situation in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, in particular the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has remained “alarming” amid ongoing violence in the restive country’s east, said the UN Special Envoy to the Region in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.
Explainer: How UN peacekeepers meet the challenge of escalating conflict in Lebanon
- UN News
The UN peacekeeping mission UNIFIL has been operating along the “Blue Line” which separates Lebanon and Israel since the 1970s, and its mandate was just renewed for another year by the UN Security Council. But what is UNIFIL and what is it doing amid the escalating conflict between Hezbollah and Israel Defense Forces (IDF)?
Israel: New law blocking UNRWA ‘would be a catastrophe’, Guterres warns
- UN News
Two bills before the Israeli parliament could put a halt to the lifesaving operations of UN Palestine relief agency, UNRWA, which has been indispensable and irreplaceable “more than ever” over the past year of war in Gaza, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
‘Indescribable’ pain one year after 7 October attacks
- UN News
A Palestinian man living in a refugee camp in northern Gaza has talked of the ‘indescribable’ pain he has experienced over the past year as the conflict in the beleaguered enclave continues.
Fears grow that Lebanon may become another Gaza
- UN News
UN humanitarians in Lebanon on Tuesday described the massive challenge of trying to reach some 1.2 million people who have fled heavy Israeli bombardment and evacuation orders, driven by the fear that what happened in Gaza may befall them, too.
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