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At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola

2026-09-11T17:50:44-07:00

Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash near Ndola, in what is now Zambia. He was fifty-six, on his way to seek a ceasefire in the Congo, where the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga had drawn a newly independent country into conflict and great-power rivalry. Leaving the cemetery, I found myself thinking about the office he held […]

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PHILIPPINES: ‘Responding to Disinformation Can’t Mean Giving the Government a Mandate to Police Truth’

2026-09-11T11:21:24-07:00

CIVICUS discusses the implications of the Philippines’ proposed anti-disinformation bill with Josalee Deinla, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, a civil society organisation that defends civil liberties in the Philippines.

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The Lighter Side of Politics at the UN General Assembly

2026-09-11T05:13:40-07:00

UNITED NATIONS, September 11 (IPS) - When over 130 world leaders arrive in New York for the high-level segment of the General Assembly next week– it will be rare to hear hard-hitting, headline-grabbing political statements from the podium.

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A Spectre is Haunting Europe — the Spectre of Ultra-Nationalism

2026-09-10T07:02:10-07:00

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 10 (IPS) - During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been crowded with news from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, while customary tales about grisly murders have not been neglected. In Sweden it is election year and summer reporting has been supplemented by a debate about “hate speech against ethnic groups”. If individual tragedies connected with murders upset people, many seem to be indifferent to the fact that entire population groups are targeted by politicians. Swedish social media is overloaded with outcries about “Muslim” immigration and concerns about Sweden becoming “Islamized” and in danger of being transformed into a new Afghanistan.

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US Plans to Restrict Foreign Journalists Trigger Rising Protests

2026-09-10T05:58:46-07:00

UNITED NATIONS, September 10 (IPS) - First, it was the mass deportations of undocumented aliens, then a crackdown on liberal-minded academics from prestigious US Universities, and now, restrictions on foreign journalists based in the US.

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Lawmakers Need to Grapple With the ‘Human Story’ of the Aged, Youth, Women and Girls when Making Policy

2026-09-10T05:08:39-07:00

KUALA LUMPUR & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 10 (IPS) - “As parliamentarians, we should understand that behind every demographic indicator is a human story,” Kamikawa Yoko, MP Japan and Chair of AFPPD, reminded lawmakers in her opening address to the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD) annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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UN and Partners Work to Stabilize Health and WASH Systems in Venezuela Following Deadly Earthquakes

2026-09-09T17:51:11-07:00

UNITED NATIONS, September 9 (IPS) - Two months after devastating twin earthquakes struck northern and central Venezuela on June 24, the humanitarian community has been on the frontlines, delivering lifesaving aid and focusing efforts on sustainable paths for rehabilitation.

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Development Goals Falter as Civil Society Is Shut Out

2026-09-09T16:19:10-07:00

BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 9 (IPS) - When the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) ended in New York in July, it took two recorded votes for states to pass a ministerial declaration that, until recently, would have been adopted without controversy. Uruguay, speaking for the Group of 77 developing countries plus China, pushed through the deletion of a reference to the agreement reached at the COP28 climate summit. Israel forced a vote on a paragraph about self-determination for people under occupation. Russia dissociated itself from the passage on peace and security. The wrangling revealed the extent to which the consensus that in 2015 saw all 193 UN states agree the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a common blueprint to end poverty, tackle climate change and build accountable institutions by 2030 – has been eroded.

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How Saving Cattle in Zimbabwe is Saving Its Lions

2026-09-09T11:24:50-07:00

BULAWAYO, September 9 (IPS) - A 12-year-old male lion slipped out of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park one winter morning and killed a 7-year-old boy in a village it wandered into.

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UN hails Libya election deal as Security Council urges Libyans to seize the moment

2026-09-09T05:00:00-07:00

The UN Security Council has welcomed a breakthrough agreement between Libya's rival political blocs, calling it ‘an important step’ towards the country's first national elections in over a decade – while pressing all sides to move quickly from paper to practice.

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