News headlines in 2015, page 48

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 (IPS) - IPS journalist Fabíola Ortiz is the winner of one of four prestigious Dag Hammarskjöld fellowships to cover the United Nations in fall 2015.

UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA, Jul 15 (IPS) - Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most civil society organisations (CSOs) expressed scepticism over the final outcome.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan/UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 (IPS) - It has been seven months since a group of gunmen raided the Army Public School in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, killing 145 people, including 132 students.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 (IPS) - Amid a range of new and old challenges, from climate change to gender equality and war crimes, a new report by the Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance emphasises the need to reform the U.N. system.

LUDHIANA, India, Jul 15 (IPS) - Long-term agricultural growth in India is slowing down. The lands that saw remarkable increases in productivity in the 1970s and 80s, thanks to the technology rolled out as part of the first "Green Revolution", are not yielding the same results today.

YAOUNDE, Jul 15 (IPS) - Her lips are quavering her hands trembling. Susan (not her real name) struggles to suppress stubborn tears, but the outburst comes, spontaneously, and the tears stream down her cheeks as she sobs profusely.

MONTEVIDEO, Jul 14 (IPS) - The countries of Latin America have partially met the Millennium Development Goal referring to the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to the UNAIDS report on the global epidemic released Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - The world at large is apparently divided over what constitutes the biggest single threat to human kind: the devastation caused by climate change or the unbridled terror unleashed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)? According to a new Pew Research Center survey designed to measure perceptions of international threats, climate change is viewed as the "top concern" by people around the world.

NEW DELHI, Jul 14 (IPS) - Despite being Asia's third-largest economy, positioning itself as a major geopolitical player under a new nationalist government, India's first ever Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) paints a grim picture of poverty and deprivation despite billions of dollars being funneled into state-sponsored welfare schemes.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Whether in Palestine, Ukraine or Somalia, wars result in millions of children threatened by the brutality of armed conflict.