A Yemeni man proudly watching over a young baby in a refugee camp in Obock, Djibouti. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS By Ezequiel HeffesNEW YORK, May 23 2023 (IPS) In 2021 alone, almost 24,000 grave violations of children’s rights in war were documented by the United Nations – these included killing and […]

Country: Myanmar Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs This is a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the country’s poorest areas with high pre-existing needs and requires scaled-up distribution to the most vulnerable ahead of the rains.

One of the rainwater harvesting systems installed in rural settlements in eastern El Salvador, in the Central American Dry Corridor. It is based on a system of pipes and gutters, which run from the rooftop to a polyethylene bag in a rectangular hole dug in the yard. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala […]

Photo: Pixabay/geralt  One year in the next five will almost certainly be the hottest on record and there’s a two-in-three chance a single year will cross the crucial 1.5℃ global warming threshold, an alarming new report by the World Meteorological Organization predicts. The report, known as the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, […]

K&L Gates has been recognized with the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Impact Award for its global pro bono work on a pre-trial detention survey with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. The Impact Award recognizes outstanding legal research projects that have had demonstrable change and significant outcomes for the work done […]