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.

The #AfghanGirlsVoices Campaign is a compelling and poignant campaign developed in collaboration with ECW Global Champion, Somaya Faruqi. CREDIT: ECW By Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Aug 14 2023 (IPS) Two years ago, the then 19-year-old Somaya Faruqi and the Afghan Robotic Team travelled from Herat City to Kabul, the heart of Afghanistan—the […]

Country: Afghanistan Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Substantial critical funding gaps amounting to some $1.3 billion leave vulnerable Afghan families staring down the barrel of hunger, disease and even potential death as winter approaches.

Country: Yemen Source: UN Development Programme The United Nations successfully completed the transfer of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, preventing an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe.