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SYDNEY, September 21 (IPS) - The UN General Assembly will soon vote - most likely favourably - on Bangladesh's request to postpone the country's graduation from the UN's Least Developed Country (LDC) category, currently scheduled for November this .. ...

Compare two children born in the same year: one in a country with functioning schools, social services, fair elections and a dynamic economy and the other in a nation devastated by poverty, conflict, climate change or corruption.

Six years after COVID-19 killed millions, battered health systems, disrupted lives and brought the global economy to a virtual standstill, the world is still grappling with how we can prepare better for the next pandemic.

More than eight decades on, the UN General Assembly remains the place where the UN's 193 Member States come together to debate the defining challenges of the day, from war and peace - to development, climate change and human rights.

UNITED NATIONS, September 18 (IPS) - Urbanization can help concentrate jobs, services, and investments; however, it can also concentrate unaffordable housing, insecure employment, and unequal exposure to contamination and environmental threats. A ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, September 18 (IPS) - Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Sitting in her Vienna office ahead of a pivotal UN gathering in Abu Dhabi, Monica Juma is focused on a simple reality: crime has evolved faster than many of the institutions designed to combat it.

For Benin, making progress on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has meant finding new ways to finance development.

Khalilur Rahman took the gavel as President of the UN General Assembly's 81st session amid what he calls a crisis of confidence in the organization he has served - in one capacity or another - for 35 years.

People displaced by the renewed fighting in Yemen have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gunfire, aid agencies reported on Friday, while highlighting the dramatic increase in humanitarian needs in the country and in Djibouti, where ...