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A Childhood Stolen — Global Issues
Families as they tried to escape from Baghouz, the last Syrian town under the control of the Islamic State to…
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Ahead of UN Summit of the Future, Mobilizing Youth for Change — Global Issues
A panel discussion with Kaoru Nemoto, director of the United Nations Information Center, and other youth representatives including Yuki Tokuda,…
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The Gambia Must Not Repeal FGM Ban — Global Issues
Opinion by Alimatu Dimonekene (london) Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Inter Press Service LONDON, Mar 27 (IPS) – Earlier this month, a…
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IMF Urges Non-alignment in Second Cold War — Global Issues
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (accra, ghana) Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Inter Press Service ACCRA, Ghana, Mar 27 (IPS) – The…
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‘Direct hits’ on more than 200 schools since Israeli bombing began — Global Issues
Satellite imagery pointed to at least 53 schools “totally destroyed” since conflict erupted on 7 October 2023 and a near…
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With 783 million people going hungry, a fifth of all food goes to waste — Global Issues
The UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 highlights that latest data from 2022 shows 1.05 billion tonnes of…
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DR Congo mission chief says humanitarian disaster ‘unfolding before our very eyes’ — Global Issues
Ms. Keita, who also heads the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO, sounded the alarm over the humanitarian disaster…
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‘We had to avoid stepping on the bodies in the streets’ in Darfur — Global Issues
Sudan, and Darfur in particular, are facing a humanitarian and security crisis after a war broke out in April 2023…
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Civilian deaths in Ukraine, refugees in Cameroon at risk, older women facing abuse, cholera in Somalia — Global Issues
News reports said that residential buildings in the northern city of Kharkiv had been hit, killing one and injuring 16,…
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A seminal moment for youth climate action — Global Issues
Ahead of Zero Waste Day, marked annually on 30 March since 2022, we looked back at how that simple but…
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