Captain Baah (right) visits a Lebanese family in Southern Lebanon. Credit: UNIFIL Opinion by Devi Palanivelu (united nations) Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 (IPS) – For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the “blue line” or the demarcation …
Opinion by Patrick Devine (nairobi, kenya) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 22 (IPS) – Among East Africa’s dozens of pastoral tribes, major conflicts have erupted repeatedly, largely over land and water disputes. Generational trauma and anger have built to create tensions and grievances that carry emotional weight even hundreds of years …
A family displaced by prolonged drought in Ethiopia now live in a makeshift tent in Mogadishu, Somalia. June 2023. Credit: IOM/Muse Mohammed Opinion by Sudip Ranjan Basu – Chen Wang – Monica Das (bangkok, thailand) Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 17 (IPS) – As the world is still gearing up to …
Children from a dozen countries met with the President of the General Assembly and toured the United Nations on a federal holiday in the United States honouring the late civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martin Luther King Jr. 17 January 2023. Credit: Paulina Kubiak, United Nations Opinion by Ben Phillips (rome) Tuesday, January …
Mahmoud Abbas (centre right), President of the State of Palestine, addresses an event to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Nakba, held by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on 15 May 2023. by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday, January 05, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 05 …
Destruction in Gaza Strip. Credit: UNICEF/Hassan Islyeh Opinion by Connor Echols (washington dc) Wednesday, January 03, 2024 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Jan 03 (IPS) – In its military campaign in Gaza, Israel faces a seemingly endless list of alleged human rights violations. International monitors argue the Israel Defense Forces have starved Gazans, targeted journalists attempting …
At risk of flooding are 372 out of the country’s 744 local government areas. Opinion by Leon Usigbe (abuja, nigeria) Tuesday, January 02, 2024 Inter Press Service Climate disasters are happening at frightening rates in Nigeria, and the administration now says it will prioritize efforts to counter the effects of climate change. ABUJA, Nigeria, Jan 02 …
Azzawieh Market in Gaza City lies in ruins. Credit: UNICEF/Omar Al-Qattaa Opinion by Mouin Rabbani (montreal, canada) Monday, December 18, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTREAL, Canada, Dec 18 (IPS) – The political significance of US-Israeli differences is easily exaggerated. It is certainly true that tensions in the relationship exist. Israel is currently committing genocide against the …
Opinion by Mary Assunta, Irene Reyes (bangkok, thailand) Friday, December 08, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 08 (IPS) – As the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ( on Human Rights Day December 10), we turn the spotlight on a glaring contradiction the world is experiencing from …
International Animal Rescue addresses the urgent need for wildlife representation at COP28. The campaign aims to push world leaders to seriously consider the planet’s wildlife and the biodiversity crisis during COP28 discussions. (November 30-December 12 in Dubai, UAE) Opinion by Gavin Bruce (uckfield, uk) Thursday, November 23, 2023 Inter Press Service UCKFIELD, UK, Nov 23 (IPS) …