Country: Yemen Source: UN Children’s Fund Yemen’s socio-economic systems remain in jeopardy after eight years of conflict, exacerbating needs across all sectors as the country experiences one of the world’s worst internal displacement crises.

If people living in informal settlements gained access to adequate housing, the average life span would jump 2.4 years on average globally, saving 730,000 lives each year. Credit: Lova Rabary-Rakontondravony/IPS By Jonathan Reckford and Joseph MuturiCAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug 16 2023 (IPS) When representatives from dozens of countries gathered […]

Photo: Pexels/Maxim Romashkin The European Union will soon require thousands of large companies to actively look for and reduce human rights abuses and environmental damage in their supply chains. And although it’s an EU law, it will also cover foreign businesses – including American ones – that have operations in the region. […]

Monsoon rains flooding Indian cities is more widespread in 2023, raising questions on business-as-usual development policies that continue even as climate conspicuously shifts. CREDIT: Manipadma Jena/IPS By Manipadma JenaBHUBANESWAR, INDIA, Aug 15 2023 (IPS) As torrential rains, cloudbursts, floods, and landslides continue to wreak colossal damage and claim lives in […]

Country: Sudan Source: Inter-Agency Standing Committee The situation is spiralling out of control. Our humanitarian appeals can help some 19 million people in Sudan and neighbouring countries. However, the two appeals are less than 27 per cent funded.