By Simone GalimbertiKATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 18 2023 (IPS) The Future We Want was the groundbreaking outcome of the Rio+20 Summit, the summit, held in 2012, where the idea of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was first conceptualized. Amid the unfolding of several global crises, where geopolitics mixes with structural unbalances that […]

Photo: Pixabay/Tama66 Almost all of the UK’s waterways are polluted. In 2022, a House of Commons Committee report on the state of UK rivers concluded that no river in England was free from chemical contamination. Only 14% of UK rivers had a “good” ecological status. Both agricultural runoff and the release of […]

Country: Sudan Source: Plan International “We hope the conflict will be resolved soon, to allow families who have been caught up in [it] to receive support, recover and rebuild their lives,” said Plan’s country director.

Faces of the dead. Myanmar’s non-profit Assistance Association for Political Prisoners has a museum in the Thai border town of Mae Sot documenting the identities of over 3,000 civilians killed by the military since it seized power in 2021, as well as those killed since the first post-independence coup in […]

Country: Sudan Source: UN News Centre UN food agency has temporarily halted all operations, as a result of the fighting between rival military groups in Sudan, which led to the deaths of three WFP employees on Saturday.