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ECWs New Report Shows Successful Education Funding Model for Crises-Impacted Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS & NAIROBI, Sep 08 (IPS) - In a world set on fire by climate change and brutal conflict, millions of children in emergencies and protracted crises need educational support. Children in 48 out of 49 African countries are at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change, particularly in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, Somalia, and Guinea Bissau.
Diversify American Cropping and Food Systems
- Inter Press Service
URBANA, Illinois, USA, Sep 08 (IPS) - A few weeks ago, my husband and I drove from Illinois to Iowa to visit a friend. I was excited about my over 5 hours’ drive. Sadly, 60 minutes into the drive, my excitement fiddled out. I was bored. Field after field, as far as my eyes could see, all I saw was either corn or soybean. I also noticed that the field margins were empty-with no sight of wildflowers.
Worlds Richest Countries Must Set More Ambitious Climate Change Goals, Report Finds
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 08 (IPS) - Individually and collectively, member countries of the G20 are falling far behind in their greenhouse gas reduction goals and are failing to make the significant cuts on emissions that would be needed to keep global temperatures low, despite possessing the technological and financial capabilities for reducing emissions.
Safe, Regular & Orderly Migration for Inclusion and Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 08 (IPS) - In Asia and the Pacific, migration is again on the rise. In 2020, almost 109 million people lived in a country other than that of their birth. They represented 2.3 per cent of the region’s population in 2020 and almost 38 per cent of the world’s international migrants.
Twenty Years on from the UN Bombing in Baghdad, What's Changed?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 08 (IPS) - Twenty years ago this month, a colleague saved me from a likely gruesome death. He insisted I stay in his Baghdad office of the World Food Programme (WFP) for a hot drink. “You can't leave us without trying the tea I made for you! The best in Iraq.”
Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns
- UN News
The world is not on track to meet the long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement for limiting global temperature rise, a major UN report warned on Friday, calling for a commitment to decisive action.
No legal grounds for Russian ‘so-called elections’ in occupied Ukraine: UN official
- UN News
The so-called elections held by Russia in occupied areas of Ukraine “have no legal grounds”, a senior political affairs official said on Friday, reiterating UN’s commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
UNHCR: more than 7 million refugee children out of school
- UN News
More than seven million refugee children are out of school globally according to UN data – that’s more than half the world’s population of displaced, school-aged children.
DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped
- UN News
Violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has descended to a new low, amid reports that months old twins were found abandoned with explosives strapped to them.
Lebanon: School occupations condemned as violence grips Palestine refugee camp
- UN News
Thousands of children have been put at risk amid a resurgence of violence at a Palestine refugee camp in Lebanon, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country said on Friday.
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