Farwiza Farhan’s eyes light up instantly when she talks about the Leuser Ecosystem – a national environmental strategic area.

Governments today face an extraordinarily difficult set of tasks: cutting emissions, protecting nature, reducing pollution, ...

The message from Just Rights for Children was clear: protecting children must take precedence over customs used to justify their marriage.

Less than 100 metres from military positions facing each other across the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, the forest suddenly ...

NEW YORK, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) - The selection of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations has reached a critical ...

The next Secretary-General will preside over a fractious UN facing one of its hardest tests. Russia and the USA, which as ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) - Much of the world has been bemused by US President Donald Trump’s expectation of the Nobel Peace Prize. While aggressive towards most of the world, friend ...

Businesses also need predictable laws, safe workplaces, fair competition, protection of property and contracts, and respect for the rights of workers, consumers and communities. The important question ...

The Sámi, Europe's last recognised Indigenous community, have faced threats to their existence throughout history.

Venezuela claims to be importing from the rest of the world roughly as much as it was exporting during those years ...

Nearly three decades have passed, but Japhet Gimbi still remembers the El Niño-induced rain in his town of Tabora, in western ...

The international day for the eradication of poverty, commemorated last week, was a grim reminder that the UN will not ...