News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 141
Funding Crunch Puts Years of Progress at Risk in Fight Against Tuberculosis
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Mar 24 (IPS) - Governments and donors must ensure funding is sustained to fight tuberculosis (TB), organizations working to stop the disease have said, as they warn the recent US pullback on foreign aid is already having a devastating effect on their operations.
3-week Gaza aid ban ‘collective punishment’: UNRWA chief
- UN News
The tight Israeli blockade of humanitarian supplies is pushing Gaza closer to an acute hunger crisis, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), said on Sunday.
World Day for Glaciers: Glaciers Are in Threat, May Not Survive the 21st Century
- Inter Press Service
BLOOMINGTON, U.S.A, Mar 22 (IPS) - Many glaciers in the world will not survive the 21st century, according to reports published by the United Nations. Five of the past six years have experienced the most rapid glacier retreat on record; 2022-24 was the largest three-year loss of glacier mass.
The Toll of Mental Health in Conflict Areas
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21 (IPS) - Over the past two decades, conversations surrounding mental wellness have entered the cultural consciousness in the western world. Despite this, these topics receive far less media exposure in the Global South, particularly in areas that have been entrenched in warfare, where the onset of harmful mental health conditions are prevalent.
How Aid Cuts Will Shatter Global Water and Sanitation Progress
- Inter Press Service
BRIGHTON, UK, Mar 21 (IPS) - The principle of leaving no one behind is central to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The progress toward achieving SDG 6, which aims to ensure universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030 is increasingly under threat with recent development funding cuts posing a significant barrier.
UNICEF condemns looting of lifesaving supplies for children in Sudan
- UN News
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday strongly condemned the looting of vital humanitarian supplies from Al Bashair Hospital in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, warning that the theft puts thousands of malnourished children and mothers at risk.
Middle East crisis spirals amid mounting civilian deaths, aid blockade
- UN News
The Israel-Palestine conflict is descending further into violence, with mounting civilian casualties in the West Bank and a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the UN’s top envoy for the region warned on Friday.
Running to bomb shelters, nothing new for Ukraine’s schoolchildren
- UN News
Classes cut short by air raid sirens have become a routine part of school life for many Ukrainian youngsters in the three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, a new UN report published on Friday details.
Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams
- UN News
Israel’s renewed bombing campaign and intensifying ground operation in Gaza are reversing gains achieved during the brief ceasefire, UN humanitarians inside the devastated enclave said on Friday.
Civil Society: The Last Line of Defence in a World of Cascading Crises
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay / LONDON, Mar 20 (IPS) - In a world of overlapping crises, from brutal conflicts and democratic regression to climate breakdown and astronomic levels of economic inequality, one vital force stands as a shield and solution: civil society. This is the sobering but ultimately hopeful message of CIVICUS’s 14th annual State of Civil Society Report, which provides a wide-ranging civil society perspective on the state of the world as it stands in early 2025.
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