This year and last have seen historically high levels of forced displacement worldwide according to the UN refugee agency’s (UNHCR) 2024 flagship Global Trends Report published on Thursday. Read the full story, “Worldwide levels of forced displacement hit new high: UNHCR”, on globalissues.org ..read more

Khadija Jallouli, a young Tunisian entrepreneur with a disability, called for redoubling international efforts aimed at integrating people with disabilities and involving them in decisions related to finding solutions to the challenges they face. Read the full story, “COSP17: Tunisian change maker invents a sustainable vehicle”, on globalissues.org ..read more

The UN is becoming increasingly concerned over falling levels of humanitarian funding for civilians across war-torn Ukraine, the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) told delegates to the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Ukraine Recovery Conference: UN sounds alarm over humanitarian funding”, on globalissues.org ..read more

The international community must continue to pay close attention to the troubling human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and find ways to revive dialogue with the Government, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Life in DPR Korea still ‘daily struggle devoid of hope’ warns human rights chief”, on globalissues.org ..read more

UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his solidarity with the people of Gaza and the global body’s deep commitment to the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) on Wednesday, while also issuing a stark message to the world’s richest nations ahead of the G7 Summit in Italy to do more to help emerging economies crippled by debt repayments. Read the full story, “Guterres highlights ‘unique level of destruction’ in Gaza ahead of G7 summit”, on globalissues.org ..read more

JUAZEIRO, Brazil, Jun 12 (IPS) - Osmir da Silva Rubez refuses to join the drip system, and is the only one among the 51 families living in the Mandacaru Public Irrigation Project in Juazeiro, a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the Northeast region of Brazil, to maintain the furrows that carry water to their crops. Read the full story, “A Rivers Contrasts and Inequalities in the Arid Lands of Brazil”, on globalissues.org ..read more

Palestinian armed groups and Israeli authorities have both committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the attack on 7 October and the subsequent military operations, according to a new report by a UN independent human rights body. Read the full story, “Gaza: Hamas, Israel committed war crimes, claims independent rights probe”, on globalissues.org ..read more

The right to development is inextricably linked with trade which the world’s poorest countries - now “mired in debt” through no fault of their own - have every right to pursue on much fairer terms, UN chief António Guterres insisted on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Guterres hails 60 years of UN trade and development action”, on globalissues.org ..read more

KARACHI, Jun 12 (IPS) - A dark head emerges, followed by the torso. The balding man heaves himself up, hands on the sides of the manhole, as he is helped by two men. Gasping for breath, the man, who seems to be in his late 40s, sits on the edge, wearing just a pair of dark pants, the same color as the putrid swirling water he comes out from. Read the full story, “Pakistan’s Dirty, Open Secret—Manual Scavenging”, on globalissues.org ..read more

NEW YORK, Jun 12 (IPS) - As we commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre this month, organizations and communities should focus on white privilege as it is a critical but often overlooked component of effective racial justice change processes. White privilege, rooted in European-led colonization, provides unearned advantages to white individuals, often unnoticed due to their perception as universal experiences. Read the full story, “Power of Acknowledging White Privilege in Addressing Racism Within United Nations”, on globalissues.org ..read more