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25 January 2023, 08:15

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 24 (IPS) - Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over the weekend. As the New York Times reported, investigators “seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Biden’s residence” in Delaware.

Read the full story, “Biden 2024 Decision Pits the Partys Elites Against Most Democrats”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15

NEW YORK, Jan 24 (IPS) - Our investment in education – especially for children caught in crisis and conflict – is our investment in a better future.

The following statement is Co-Signed by: Federal Councillor of the Swiss Confederation, Ignazio Cassis; Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany, Svenja Schulze; Minister of Education, Niger, Ibrahim Natatou; Minister of International Development, Norway, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim; Minister of General Education and Instruction, South Sudan, Awut Deng Acuil; Minister of Education, Colombia, Alejandro Gaviria; Former UK Prime Minister, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of ECW’s High-Level Steering Group The Rt. Hon. Gordon BrownAs we mark the International Day of Education, world leaders must make good on their promise of providing quality education for all by 2030.

Education is our investment in peace where there is war, our investment in equality where there is injustice, our investment in prosperity where there is poverty.

Read the full story, “Delivering On Our Promise of Universal Education”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15

Ambassadors, UN officials and experts from the international community have been sharing ways to better prevent genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity, at a special meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York on Tuesday. 

Read the full story, “Top UN body asks what more can be done to stop genocide, atrocity crimes”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15

Haiti’s protracted political and humanitarian crisis – marked by spiking levels of gang-related violence and a badly struggling national police force – are reversing crucial security and development strides made since the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, the senior UN representative in Port-au-Prince told the Security Council on Tuesday. 

Read the full story, “Police overwhelmed, development stalled, as gang violence spirals in Haiti”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement deploring the abduction of a doctor working for the UN health agency in the town of Menaka, in eastern Mali, by unknown assailants on Monday.

Read the full story, “Mali: WHO doctor seized by ‘unidentified assailants’, as UNHCR raises alarm over continuing violence”, on globalissues.org

25 January 2023, 08:15
A couple in Sanna juggles precarious jobs as a labourer and domestic worker to support and educate their five children.
25 January 2023, 08:15
The men were attempting a humanitarian evacuation from the town of Soledar when they were killed, their families say.
25 January 2023, 08:15
India has used emergency powers to block the airing of the documentary that questions Modi's role in the 2002 riots.
25 January 2023, 08:15
Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultranationalist and ultraorthodox government has Palestinians and rights advocates raising alarm.