News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 317
8.2 Million Iraqis In Need of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 05 (IPS) - As fighting drags on between Iraqi armed forces and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), millions of refugees caught between the warring groups are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
Pacific Civil Society Swings Out Against Free Trade Agreement
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Jun 03 (IPS) - Fourteen Pacific Island Forum countries are currently locked in negotiations with their two largest economic neighbours, Australia and New Zealand, to forge a new regional free trade agreement called ‘PACER Plus', which supporters believe will boost economic growth in the region.
U.N. Sets Up Independent Panel to Probe Sexual Abuses in CAR
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - The United Nations, which came under heavy fire for its failure to act swiftly on charges of sexual abuse by French troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) last year, has decided to set up an External Independent Review (EIR) to probe these allegations.
Climate Fund Rolls Out Amid Hopes It Stays "Green"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - After a difficult infancy, the Green Climate Fund is finally getting some legs. The big question now is what direction it will toddle off in.
Despite Setbacks, Global Sanitation Makes Progress, Says Fund
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 02 (IPS) - When the United Nations hosted a panel discussion last year urging its partners to "break their silence" on open defecation, Singapore's deputy permanent representative Mark Neo was outspoken in his characterisation: "Open defecation is a euphemism. What we are talking about is shitting in the open."
Prolonged Drought Leaves Caribbean Farmers Broke and Worried
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, Jun 02 (IPS) - St. Lucian farmer Anthony Herman was hoping that next year he'd manage to recoup some of the losses he sustained after 70 per cent of his cashew crop withered and died in the heat of the scorching southern Caribbean sun.
Indigenous Voices Ignored in Financing Panamanian Dam Project
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, Jun 02 (IPS) - Indigenous people who would be directly affected by the impact of a hydroelectric project in Panama were not consulted despite national and international human rights obligations to obtain their free, prior and informed consent, according to a just-released report.
Leaked Internal Documents Show U.N. Ignored Child Abuse
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (IPS) - Leaked United Nations documents show high-level staff knew of abuses by soldiers in the Central African Republic and failed to act, all while planning the removal of U.N. whistleblower Anders Kompass.
Bahamas Builds Resilience Against a Surging Sea
- Inter Press Service
NASSAU, May 29 (IPS) - Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have championed the phrase "1.5 to stay alive" in demanding that global temperature increases be kept as far below 1.5 degrees C as possible to limit the anticipated devastating effects of climate change on the world's most vulnerable countries.
Relief Organisation Urges Mandatory Funding for Humanitarian Appeals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (IPS) - The United Nations is not only overwhelmed by a spreading humanitarian crisis, largely in Africa and the Middle East, but also remains hamstrung by a severe shortfall in funds, mostly from Western donors.
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