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Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in recent weeks that have killed civilians as tensions ripple through the region.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, September 14 (IPS) - Most free trade advocates falsely claim that comparative advantage ensures developmental gains from trade liberalisation. Mainstream trade theory does not promise that partial trade liberalisation ...

KIGALI, September 14 (IPS) - When the African continent experiences erratic rains, crops fail, leaving millions of people facing hunger.

Fatimah* was 13 when she was married off to an older man. Two years later, she gave birth to twin daughters.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders of a bloc of major emerging economies in New Delhi on Sunday that a more balanced global order requires an overhaul of the institutions built after the Second World War, including the UN Security .. ...

Ola Ishtiwi sits with her children in front of the remains of her home in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, a few metres away from a series of painted cement blocks Israel has placed to mark what has become known as the "yellow line".

TOKYO, Japan, September 11 (IPS) - Twenty years after five Central Asian states signed a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons across their region, their foreign ministers have used the anniversary to warn that faltering arms-control agreements, .. ...

Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld's grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash ...

UNITED NATIONS, September 11 (IPS) - Two weeks after devastating floods struck Nepal, communities across the country are still struggling to meet basic needs as humanitarian efforts continue. The disaster, triggered by a glacial collapse, has become ...

CIVICUS discusses the implications of the Philippines' proposed anti-disinformation bill with Josalee Deinla, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples' Lawyers, a civil society organisation that defends civil liberties in the Philippines.