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AI in advertising risks fuelling misinformation crisis, UN warns
- UN News
With spending on advertising topping $1 trillion a year worldwide, the United Nations on Wednesday highlighted the untapped power of major brands to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence, warning that a failure to act could deepen a global information integrity crisis.
Solidarity for Whom?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, April 28 (IPS) - The veil has been lifted—but not the one you think.
Not the veil the West has spent decades weaponizing. The veil now exposed is the one that concealed Western feminism’s selective solidarity—its silence on the women it was never truly fighting for. The “othering” of women from the South West Asian and North African region. In other words: us.
American-Israeli War on Iran Risks Fuelling the very Nuclear Proliferation it Claims to Prevent
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 28 (IPS) - As delegates from 191 countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, gathered Monday at UN headquarters for a month of diplomacy at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the stakes could hardly be higher.
“In a Field of Lame Horses, the Three-Legged one Might Limp Home in the Race for UN Secretary-General”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, April 28 (IPS) - The race for the next UN Secretary-General has, so far, attracted only four candidates—perhaps with more to come in an unpredictable contest.
But most of the candidates have played it safe – avoiding controversial issues and circumventing the wrath of the US whose veto can demolish the chances of any candidate by a single stroke in the Security Council.
‘Significant Stress’ as UN Prepares for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, April 27 (IPS) - The Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will meet at the United Nations in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2026. State parties to the treaty will meet with the urgent aim of finding common ground on the issue of nonproliferation.
Why Indigenous Peacebuilding Matters in Today’s World
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, April 24 (IPS) - About 132 wars are happening in the world today, displacing 200 million people. 80 percent of these conflicts are happening in sensitive biodiversity areas where Indigenous Peoples live.
The Impact of the Middle East Crisis on Women and Girls
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Egypt, April 23 (IPS) - Six weeks into the 2026 Middle East military escalation, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office warns that its impact on 161 million women and girls living in conflict-affected areas across the region remain largely invisible in conflict analysis, humanitarian response, and funding priorities.
Trump’s Apocalyptic Rhetoric Echoes Nuclear Annihilation
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, April 21 (IPS) - It is hard to exaggerate the dire implications of Trump’s April 7 post on Truth Social, stating that a civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if no deal is reached with Iran. Such a damning statement implies that he would use ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ i.e., nuclear, to execute his threat.
The Middle East War Triggers a Move to Boost North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, April 21 (IPS) - The ongoing military conflicts in the Middle East—involving the US, Israel, Palestine, Iran and Lebanon—have indirectly bolstered North Korea’s plans to expand its nuclear arsenal.
Secretary-General hopefuls make their case in televised ‘interactive dialogues’
- UN News
The four candidates so far in the running to be the next UN Secretary-General will each have the chance to show why they are the best choice during a series of “interactive dialogues” taking place at UN Headquarters in New York this week.
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