According to the evidence published by the German newspaper Die Spiegel, Fabrice Leggeri - the head of the European agency FRONTEX (European Border and Coast Guard Agency) - was aware of the repatriations taking place at sea by Greek...
New York, Mar 11 2022 (IPS) - By Samira Sadeque
Countries on the African continent have a pattern of a six-month break before a new COVID-19 spike happens, researchers at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change have said in...
By Alice Pistolesi
The suffering of the Syrian population continues unabated. On Wednesday 9 March, Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, described the impact of the 11-year conflict on communities as "devastating" at a...
By Emanuele Giordana
"Immediate action is needed to prevent further damage and escalation of the disaster in Afghanistan, where poverty has reached unprecedented levels since the financial reserves were frozen in US and European banks last August". This is the...
By UN NEWS
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on March 1st, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement. “Between April and November 2021, we have received allegations indicating...
By Alice Pistolesi
One million people have crossed the Ukrainian border in one week. An enormous, overwhelming and extremely rapid exodus, as emphasised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, who said yesterday: "I have worked...
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is often the talk of the town. The agency, founded in 2004 and based in Warsaw, 'helps - as its website states - EU countries and countries associated with the Schengen...
By Alice Pistolesi
World food prices have increased by 28% in 2021, reaching their highest level in a decade. The Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most traded food products worldwide, recorded an average of...
By Jacob Botoga - Truthout
Nearly 23 million Afghans are facing “crisis levels of hunger” and 8.7 million are on the “brink of starvation.” This mass hunger has rendered millions of Afghans on the “verge of death,” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Alongside...
by Emanuele Giordana, reporting from Nairobi
Africa remains at the centre of the international community's concerns due to all the risks associated with hunger: Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen in particular remain at the highest level of alert, writes...
