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Violence, Climate Shocks, and Hunger Push The Sahel To The Brink of Collapse

By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Over the past few years,...

Central Asia Bets on a New Water–Land Pact to Survive Environmental Degradation

By Kizito Makoye SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (IPS) - As ministers, diplomats and development...

Africa’s Water is its Future. Who will Govern it?

By Cristina Duarte UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Africa holds 9 per cent...

Make Last Sprint Towards 2030 a ‘Turning Point’ for Nature Finance, Eighth GEF Assembly Told

By Cecilia Russell SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (IPS) - “While pressures on public budgets...

Global Pandemic Hits the World’s Poorest the Hardest

By J Natranis NEW YORK (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a deeply troubling situation in the world’s poorest countries. It threatens to push...

COVID-19 Pushes Millions into Destitution

By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA (IDN) — A once-in-a-century crisis—a Great Disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic—hit the world economy in 2020. The pandemic has reached every corner of the globe. Meanwhile,...

UN’s ECOSOC Chief Calls for Backing Up World’s Poor Fight COVID-19

By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) — UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) President Munir Akram has called for a 'Coalition of the Willing' to...

COVID-19: Brazil Implements Basic Income Policy Following Massive Civil Society Campaign

By Pedro Telles The writer is 2018-19 Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics. SÃO PAULO (IDN) –...

UN Warns of Growing Inequality Triggering New Great Divergence

By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – In the run-up to 2020, the UN has warned that despite remarkable progress on laying a solid...

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Filipino Indigenous Leader Takes Ancient Wisdom to the Global Stage

By Kizito Makoye SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan(IPS) - Every year, when dark clouds gather...
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