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Sixty-five nations have signed a landmark United Nations treaty in Hanoi aimed at tackling cybercrime - a move Secretary-General António Guterres hailed as a historic step toward a safer digital world.

CIVICUS speaks about the disappearance of Turkmen activists Abdulla Orusov and Alisher Sahatov with human rights defender Diana Dadasheva from the civil movement DAYANÇ/Turkmenistan and with Gülala Hasanova, wife of Alisher Sahatov.

SYDNEY, Australia , October 24 (IPS) - The burden of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, is global, and the projected increase in cases in the coming decades will affect women in high- and low-income countries in every region.

Imagine this: you visit the familiar website of your local hardware store. Everything looks the same -- the same design, the same brand name, the same interface.

UNITED NATIONS, October 23 (IPS) - Since the declaration of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on October 10, families in the Gaza Strip have begun returning to previously inaccessible areas, as humanitarian organizations work to scale up aid ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed Wednesday's advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) saying Israel must allow aid into Gaza.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says that Israel must uphold its responsibilities as the "occupying power" by ensuring aid can flow freely and by respecting the rights of the UN and other humanitarian agencies working in the Occupied ...

NEW YORK, October 22 (IPS) - When the Taliban recently cut off the Internet and phone networks across Afghanistan, millions of women and girls were silenced. For those with connectivity, the blackout severed their last link to the outside world - a . ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, October 21 (IPS) - When thousands of Georgians filled the streets of Tbilisi in 2023 to protest against their government's proposed 'foreign agents' law, they understood what their leaders were trying to do: this wasn't about ...

More than a million people have returned to Sudan's war-ravaged capital in the past ten months, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday, warning that basic services remain shattered amid continuing disease outbreaks.