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WHO Launches New Global Health Strategy for Childhood Cancer Medications

UNITED NATIONS, September 18 (IPS) - When a child is diagnosed with cancer, their chances of survival should not depend...

War in Ukraine: Hungarian Minority Pushed to the Edge

UZHGOROD, Ukraine, September 17 (IPS) - It happened in 1920. At the Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles, the Allies drew...

Ahead of COP17, UN Biodiversity Chief Urges Urgent Realignment of Finance with Nature Goals

KUNMING, China, September 17 (IPS) - The world may have enough money to protect nature. The bigger problem, according to...

ETHIOPIA: ‘Reporting on Abuses Shouldn’t Be Treated as a Threat to National Interest’

CIVICUS discusses renewed conflict and a growing crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia with Yonas Kedir, Editor-in-Chief of the independent...

African Farmers Demand Affordable Finance as Governments Fall Short on Funding

KIGALI, September 16 (IPS) - Agriculture remains underfunded in Africa as governments struggle to deliver on decades-old promises to dedicate...