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‘I am somebody’: Street-smart youth take their declaration to the UN

When Samantha Richards and Angela Hifume walked into the Hall of Flags at United Nations Headquarters last week, they carried...

UN chief hails Syria’s ‘moment of possibility’ on first visit since fall of Assad regime

Syria has an opportunity not only to recover from conflict but to build “a future that is more stable, more...

Guatemala: A Narrow Opening in a Captured Justice System

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 24 (IPS) - José Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico, Guatemala’s now-defunct leading investigative newspaper, spent 1,295 days...

From Castel Gandolfo to Campidoglio: Call for Human Dignity to Be at the Heart of the AI Revolution

ROME, July 24 (IPS) - After two days of debate at an international conference devoted to the challenges of artificial...

The Houthis Don’t Need to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Strangle the Suez Canal

UNITED NATIONS, July 24 (IPS) - With regional friction between Iran and the Gulf monarchies escalating, Houthi leadership in Yemen...