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CIVICUS discusses disinformation campaigns targeting the LGBTQI+ community in Armenia with Hripsime Kizogyan, Executive Director of Pink Armenia, a community-based organisation that defends the human rights of LGBTQI+ people and advocates for policy ...

Wildfires are often associated with the destruction they leave behind, but the smoke they produce can pose a serious health threat far beyond the fire zone, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.

As much of the world faces grapples with above normal temperatures and major rainfall changes, the UN Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that El Niño, a powerful climate pattern shaping global weather, will intensify starting next .. ...

Violence and civilian casualties are rising across the Middle East - from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza to continued hostilities in Lebanon and the West Bank - UN agencies reported on Friday as the Secretary-General declared "the fighting must stop".

UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (IPS) - An age-old axiom in Statistics reads : Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure.And more so, in military conflicts, including the five-month-old US-Iran war, where casualty figures are difficult to track down because . ...

UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (IPS) - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with United Nations officials warning that hunger is actively undermining efforts to contain the spread.

OLOITOKTOK, Kenya, July 30 (IPS) - Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo joins dozens of teenage runners leaving Magnolia Athletics Camp for training beneath the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 30 (IPS) - Africa's digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach.

El Niño is putting millions of lives at risk in eastern and southern Africa but the UN is ensuring that communities are better prepared to deal with its impact.

The humanitarian toll is mounting as fighting continues in the Middle East beyond strikes and counterstrikes between the US and Iran, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Thursday, with civilians increasingly at risk and essential ...