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A new UN human rights report issued on Tuesday details the brutality and scale of conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan since war erupted in April 2023 and its profound, long-term impacts on victims, families and communities.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will begin implementing an evacuation plan for more than 11,000 seafarers stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, the UN agency announced on Tuesday.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday that calls for accountability for crimes committed against UN peacekeepers.

UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (IPS) - Armed conflict, economic shocks, and climate pressures are driving worsening food insecurity across many of the world's most vulnerable regions, according to the latest Hunger Hotspots report outlook for June-November ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (IPS) - A study of 133 AI systems found that 44 per cent demonstrated gender bias and 26 per cent demonstrated both gender and racial bias. Yet only 51 per cent of marketers currently use human oversight to test AI-generated . ...

SRINIGAR, India & PARIS, June 23 (IPS) - As the world enters the final years before the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a latest United Nations report has revealed that economic uncertainty, climate change, ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 22 (IPS) - « James Alix Michel warns that without real finance and precaution, ocean pledges risk remaining only on paper. »Now that the lights have dimmed in Mombasa and the delegations have gone home, a simple but ...

The Security Council is holding an open meeting on Ukraine on Monday afternoon, with warnings of a "dangerous cycle of escalation" amid drone and missile attacks in briefings by Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General at the Departments of ...

As global confirmed Ebola cases reach 1,000, nearly three million children and adolescents are at risk in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while efforts increase to treat prisoners near the epicentre of the current ...

As countries grapple with energy price shocks, supply disruptions and the growing impacts of climate change, energy security has become a pressing concern.