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Ebola Spread Raises Fresh Urgency for Africa’s Domestic Health Funding
An Ebola death last week in Kenya is highlighting the urgency of Africa’s public health emergency preparedness and how the continent’s governments are…
Finding Silver Linings Amid Haze of Climatic Uncertainty
With the city enveloped in a cloak of haze, the urgency of tackling the climate crisis could hardly have been clearer as the…
‘Prioritize Social Inclusion as Rapid Transformations Risk Leaving Millions Behind’
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) new report, which addresses the rapid global transformations driven by artificial intelligence…
Kenia Hernández: Indigenous Rights Defender Imprisoned for Her Activism
Kenia Hernández is an Indigenous Mexican lawyer and human rights defender dedicated to advancing women’s rights and social justice. Arrested in October 2020,…
Crisis and Opportunity at the UN
At this year’s highest-profile UN event, Donald Trump publicly mused over his ‘big decision’ about whether to ‘annihilate’ Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
World Lost More Than 7 Million Hectares of Forest in 2025
The world lost more than 7 million hectares of forest to deforestation in 2025, a modest improvement on recent years but still far…
UN to Launch Survey to Track Down Racism at the Secretariat
The United Nations has once again revived a longstanding problem that has been left lingering behind closed doors for decades – racism and…
How Nepal is Learning To Cope With the Psychological Toll of Its Missing
Nearly three decades ago, in the final stretch of Nepal’s civil war, Dr Brandon Kohrt sat with parents whose sons had been conscripted…
Tanzania’s Biggest City Bets on Elevated Bridge to Dodge Chronic Flooding
Each morning on her way to Kariakoo, Clementina Nyangwine looks out of her commuter bus as it crawls through Jangwani and watches giant…
A Rash of Hard-Hitting Questions—Which May Remain Evasive–for Candidates Running for UN Chief
The seven candidates, still in the running for the post of UN Secretary-General (SG), have so far faced a barrage of questions, mostly…
