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BRATISLAVA, January 29 (IPS) - "I'd never encountered anything like it before. I had no idea that there could be a place that needed humanitarian aid and that a government entity wouldn't allow physicians or health workers into [that place]," says .. ...

UNITED NATIONS, January 28 (IPS) - As Haiti's Transitional President Council (TPC) approaches its February 7 expiration date and the country remains without a newly elected president, humanitarian experts warn the nation risks further sliding into .. ...

CIVICUS speaks to the Business and Human Rights Centre (BHRC) about labour rights abuses in Myanmar's garment industry since the 2021 military coup.

URBANA, Illinois, US, January 27 (IPS) - Scientists across the U.S., including me, are stressed after a year marked by several changes and challenges, including cuts to science funding that have stalled clinical trials and studies that could improve ...

For the first time ever, the World Health Organization (WHO) is providing recommendations for healthy and nutritious food in schools around the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a detailed statement regretting the United States decision to leave the UN agency, and declaring that it will leave both the US and the world less safe as a result.

UNITED NATIONS, January 23 (IPS) - Nearly four years into Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine faces another winter marked by widespread humanitarian suffering and continued indiscriminate attacks. The final months of 2025 were particularly volatile ...

As people in war-torn Ukraine face the coldest winter in more than a decade, authorities and humanitarians are working to help them stay warm, particularly the most vulnerable residents.

Once a lifeline of northern Bengal, Bangladesh's Karatoya River now drifts through Bogura as a fragmented, polluted channel, where climate change and human neglect quietly reshape livelihoods, memory, and everyday life.

The Trump administration's recent announcement of its withdrawal from 66 international organisations has been met with a mixture of alarm and applause. While the headline number suggests a dramatic retreat from the world stage, a closer look reveals ...