Global Issues

UNITED NATIONS, February 20 (IPS) - A new UN report warns of the “brutal and normalized reality” for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya as they face exploitation and human rights violations. Read the full story, “UN Report Warns of Escalating Human Rights Abuses Against Migrants and Refugees in Libya”, on globalissues.org →

NEW YORK, February 20 (IPS) - When the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. declared, “Keep hope alive,” it was not a slogan. It was a discipline. It was a moral posture. It was a promise to those America had locked out of its prosperity and pushed to the margins of its democracy. And for more than five decades, Jackson kept that promise – organizing, marching, preaching, negotiating, and standing in solidarity with oppressed peoples at home and abroad. Read the full story, “Ode to U.S. Civil Rights Icon Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr: A Life That Carried the Rainbow”, on globalissues.org →

DELHI, February 20 (IPS) - Pyari Hessa, 26, balances long shifts as a loco traffic controller at a steel company in Jamshedpur with evening football practice on the same turf where professionals train. Read the full story, “Players Score Dignity in India’s First Transgender Football League”, on globalissues.org →

There has been an “alarming increase” in the number of children being recruited into gangs in Haiti with “devastating consequences” for children, families and society as a whole, the UN reported on Friday.Read the full story, “‘Alarming increase’ in recruitment of children into gangs in Haiti”, on globalissues.org →

Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, millions in Ukraine struggle to keep the lights on and heat their homes, with the crisis taking a particular toll on women, humanitarians warned on Friday.Read the full story, “Ukraine’s women at breaking point after four years of war as attacks on energy, healthcare continue – UN humanitarians”, on globalissues.org →

UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the key role science has in international governance of artificial intelligence during an event on Friday held on the margins of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India. Read the full story, “Science-led governance of AI can help power sustainable development: Guterres”, on globalissues.org →

A sprawling online scam industry worth an estimated tens of billions of dollars a year is being powered by trafficked workers subjected to torture, sexual abuse and forced labour inside heavily guarded compounds in Southeast Asia, a new UN human rights report has found.Read the full story, “UN report exposes torture, rape in Southeast Asia’s multi-billion-dollar scam centres”, on globalissues.org →

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator arrived in South Sudan on Friday to visit one of the most under-reported humanitarian crises in the world, as clashes between government and opposition forces continue in Jonglei state. Read the full story, “World News in Brief: UN humanitarian chief visits South Sudan, shelter fire risks in Gaza, West Bank violence”, on globalissues.org →

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 19 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the United Nations Population Division). They embody the energy, creativity, and potential of the continent. It is undeniable that The Africa We Want, as envisioned in the African Union’s Agenda 2063, will not be realized without the full participation of this group which represents a key component of the continent’s current and future workforce. Read the full story, “Why Ending Child Marriage is Key to Advancing Africa’s Economic Development”, on globalissues.org →

BRATISLAVA, February 19 (IPS) - Drug reform campaigners have called for an overhaul of global drug controls amid an increasingly complex and deadly drug situation in the world and as hardline anti-drug approaches are increasingly being used as cover for repression of civil society and human rights defenders. Read the full story, “‘Worrying’ War on Drugs Rhetoric Comes with Human, Financial Costs”, on globalissues.org →