Global Issues

PORTLAND, USA, Apr 02 (IPS) - For most voters, to make America great again, as the 47th president has repeatedly pledged, meant to make the United States markedly superior globally. However, the administration’s actions, policies and program cuts will not improve but only worsen the US’s mediocre standing among advanced countries.Read the full story, “Make America Great Again? Not by This Administration”, on globalissues.org →

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 02 (IPS) - After nearly two years of extended warfare and protracted crises as a result of the Sudanese Civil War, Sudan remains the world’s biggest internal displacement crisis. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), heightened insecurity, widespread famine, economic strife, and climate shocks threaten the lives of approximately 25.6 million people.Read the full story, “Hunger and Heightened Insecurity Pushes Sudan to the Brink of Collapse”, on globalissues.org →

LONDON/MANDALAY, Apr 02 (IPS) - Boosting faint hopes of still finding survivors, rescue workers from Myanmar and Turkey pulled a man alive from the rubble of a hotel in the capital early on Wednesday, five days after the quake hit. But hope of finding more survivors is slim after central Myanmar was devastated by a massive earthquake last Friday. Now aid workers are struggling to deliver body bags, medicines and food and water against the backdrop of civil war.Read the full story, “Regime Obstructs Aid But Finally Declares Ceasefire in Quake-hit Myanmar”, on globalissues.org →

JERUSALEM, Apr 02 (IPS) - The end of the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is having disastrous consequences for women and girls. From 18 to 25 March—in just those 8 days, 830 people were killed—174 women, 322 children, with 1,787 more injured.Read the full story, “Collapse of Gaza Ceasefire and its Devastating Impact on Women and Girls”, on globalissues.org →

2024 saw the highest increase in missing persons in at least two decades, with 56,559 new cases recorded, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.Read the full story, “Accountability for missing persons is ‘crucial’: UN human rights chief”, on globalissues.org →

Two senior UN officials appealed in the Security Council on Wednesday for an end to attacks against humanitarians and personnel working for the global organization. Read the full story, “‘Attacks on aid workers must end,’ Security Council told”, on globalissues.org →

Friday’s devastating earthquakes in Myanmar not only caused mass casualties and widespread destruction, they also deepened long-standing gender inequalities – leaving millions of women and girls at heightened risk, UN aid agencies warned on Wednesday.Read the full story, “Myanmar quake: UN calls for urgent protection for vulnerable women and girls”, on globalissues.org →

Amid alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan, UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is warning that over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk.Read the full story, “Sudan: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls”, on globalissues.org →

The “world is failing” people living with disabilities, UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed has told a major summit which aims to galvanize global efforts to ensure they are fully integrated into all parts of society.Read the full story, “World is ‘failing’ people with disabilities: UN deputy chief”, on globalissues.org →

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed grave concern on Wednesday over the human toll resulting from the intensified hostilities in Gaza. Read the full story, “UN condemns killing of 1,000 people in Gaza since ceasefire collapse”, on globalissues.org →