Global Issues
News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 15
Conflict, Climate Change Push Migrants in Yemen to Return to Their Home Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 13 (IPS) - Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, driven by conflict, economic collapse and climate shocks, leaves migrants desperate to return to their home countries.
Afghan Refugees Expelled from Iran and Exposed to Horrific Abuse
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 11 (IPS) - Since early June, Afghan refugees in Iran have endured increasingly harsh humanitarian conditions, with many being forced to repatriate under conditions that violate the principles of international humanitarian law. In 2025 alone, over one million refugees have returned to Afghanistan, further stretching the limited supply of resources amid a severe and multifaceted humanitarian crisis.
UN Funding Crisis Threatens Work of Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK / GENEVA, July 11 (IPS) - The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ announcement that certain activities mandated by the council cannot be delivered due to a lack of funding. The council has sought clarity on why certain activities had been singled out.
Escalating Gang Violence in Haiti Threatens to Override State Control
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (IPS) - Over the month of June, the security situation in Haiti has taken a considerable turn for the worse, with armed gangs continuing to coordinate brutal attacks, seizing more territory, and obstructing critical humanitarian aid deliveries. In the past week, new waves of hostilities were reported in the nation’s Centre Department, which has elicited concern from humanitarian organizations that gang influence could soon completely overpower state control.
HIV/AIDS Funding Crisis Risks Reversing Decades of Global Progress
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (IPS) - UNAIDS called the funding crisis a ticking time bomb, saying the impact of the US cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could result in 4 million unnecessary AIDS-related deaths by 2029.
For the Aged, Their Sunset Years Will Be Bedeviled by Lethal Heatwaves
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI & BHUBANESWAR, July 10 (IPS) - The global population is aging at a time when heat exposure is rising due to climate change. Extreme heat can be deadly for older populations given their reduced ability to regulate body temperature. Already there has been an 85 percent increase since 1990 in annual heat-related deaths of adults aged above 65, driven by both warming trends and fast-growing older populations.
Preventing Pandemics Needs Every Tool in the Toolbox – Including Animal Vaccines
- Inter Press Service
LISBON, July 9 (IPS) - Just five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders and species.Avian influenza has already resulted in the loss of more than 630 million birds in the last 20 years. And new figures from the inaugural State of the World’s Animal Health report find that the number of reported outbreaks in mammals, including cattle, sheep and cats, doubled last year compared to 2023.
Genocide Made Invisible
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, July 9 (IPS) - Whatever the outcomes of Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House on Monday and the latest scenario for a ceasefire in Gaza, a bilateral policy of genocide has united the Israeli and U.S. governments in a pact of literally breath-taking cruelty.
Kenya’s Shirika Plan: A New Dawn for Refugee Rights and Integration
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, July 7 (IPS) - When Jean Baremba arrived in Kenya in 2018, he looked forward to rebuilding a life shattered by war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
How Global Fund is Saving Lives from Malaria, TB, & HIV across Africa
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, July 7 (IPS) - In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a grandmother named N’beta hesitated. Her six-month-old grandson, Seco, was healthy, so why give him medicine? But community health workers Jamilia and Amadu gently explained that the medicine wasn’t for illness, but for protection. It was part of a seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign designed to protect children during the worst malaria transmission months — the rainy season.
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