Global Issues

KABUL, Jun 13 (IPS) - Mehrangiz is a sixteen-year-old girl from Badakhshan, a province in the northeastern Afghanistan famed for its rubies, jewels, and a land of love and beauty.Read the full story, “Broadcasting Hope: Women’s Voice Radio Helps Afghan Teen Reclaim Her Future”, on globalissues.org →

TIMBO / FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 13 (IPS) - In 2014, Santa Catarina became the first and only state free of open-air garbage dumps in Brazil. Now, 14 of its municipalities are seeking to also free themselves from landfills and make use of nearly all urban solid waste.Read the full story, “Make use of all urban waste, a utopia in Brazil?”, on globalissues.org →

NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - With the future of the world’s oceans hanging in the balance, global leaders, scientists, and activists gathered in the French Riviera city of Nice this week for the historic UN Ocean Conference, where France declared a new era of high seas governance and marine protection.Read the full story, “France Rallies World Leaders to Seal Ocean Protection Deal at UN Conference in Nice”, on globalissues.org →

NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - Just before dawn, a flotilla of wooden canoes drifts silently  through mangrove-tangled channels where roots sprout from the black mud of the lagoon. Here, at the edge between sea and forest, lies a story of restoration.Read the full story, “Reviving Mangroves at the Edge of Mozambique Channel”, on globalissues.org →

NEW YORK, Jun 13 (IPS) - Victims of Japan's costly Eugenic Protection Law took to the stage sharing their life stories, offering their tragedies of sterilization and mutilation, in return for the hopes of “a society without discrimination”. At a side event on International Sharing of the Experiences and Lessons of Japan's Former Eugenic Protection Law held on June 10th, The Conference of Parties on the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities Discussed the struggle for Anti eugenic ideology. Hosted by the Japan Disability Forum along with several legal defence teams for the victims, an outline of ideology, policy, and retribution was displayed, in an attempt to fight against “eugenics-based discrimination”.Read the full story, “Victims of Japan's Eugenic Protection Law Sterilized and Mutilated Without Consent”, on globalissues.org →

ALBERTA, Canada, Jun 13 (IPS) - Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment.G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and reneging on their international commitmentsRead the full story, “Biggest-Ever Aid Cut by G7 Members a Death Sentence for Millions of People”, on globalissues.org →

NICE, Jun 13 (IPS) - At the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognized three countries and regions for their large-scale programs to restore their native ecosystems.Read the full story, “Mexico, Spain, East Africa, Awarded For their Ecosystem Restoration Programs”, on globalissues.org →

NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - As the curtains draw on the UN Ocean Conference, a flurry of voluntary commitments and political declarations has injected fresh impetus into global efforts to conserve marine biodiversity. With the world’s oceans facing unprecedented threats, high-level biodiversity officials and negotiators are sounding the alarm and calling for renewed momentum—and funding—to deliver on long-standing promises.Read the full story, “Ocean Action Boosted in Africa as Biodiversity Leaders Call for Urgent Synergy, Funding Reform”, on globalissues.org →

Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third United Nations Ocean Conference drew to a close. Moments earlier, more than 170 countries had adopted by consensus a sweeping political declaration promising urgent action to protect the ocean.Read the full story, “UN ocean summit closes in Nice with wave of commitments”, on globalissues.org →

UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations. Read the full story, “Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist”, on globalissues.org →