Midterms on a Tilted Field - Trump claimed nearly 16,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in Nevada. The Department of Homeland Security later confirmed only 185, and Nevada officials found all 185 were citizens, ✍️Inés Pousadela, @CIVICUSalliance ipsnews.net/2026/11/midter…
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USA’s 2026 midterm elections: Rights can be hollowed out one procedure at a time, each change defended as technical or necessary, until they survive in name only, civil and voting rights attorney Aklima Khondoker tells @CIVICUSalliance ipsnews.net/2026/10/usa-ri…
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Tracking advances & obstacles shaping progress toward the #SDGs:
➡️New Biodiversity Pledges Emerge at COP17 But Funding Gap Persists;
➡️Is Gender Bias at the UN Coming to an Inglorious End?;
➡️Data Centres Store Hazardous Chemicals in Mexico; and more👇
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For the first time since 2002, the @OSCE will not observe a US federal election. On 23 September, the body announced it had not received an invitation, putting the USA on a par with Belarus and Russia, writes Inés Pousadela, @CIVICUSalliance ipsnews.net/2026/11/midter…
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The USA increasingly resembles a competitive authoritarian regime, where elections take place and the opposition can win, but the incumbent abuses state power to stack the odds against rivals, writes Inés Pousadela, @CIVICUSalliance @UniversidadORT ipsnews.net/2026/11/midter…
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UNICEF estimated in 2023 that 640 million girls and women alive at the time had married in childhood. Progress is too slow to eliminate child marriage by 2030 ipsnews.net/2026/10/from-4…
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Many crop varieties cannot withstand flooding, with crop and yield losses of up to 100% reported, both nationally and globally, warns @EstherNgumbi, calling for field research across crop varieties and soils to strengthen resilience ipsnews.net/2026/10/floodi…
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At COP16 in Colombia parties created a permanent body for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to help ensure their effective participation. Two years later, however, many delegates at #COP17Armenia argue that progress has been slow ipsnews.net/2026/10/cop17-…
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The challenge is to make chemical and product safety part of how whole sectors grow, innovate, and compete. If we can get that right, safer chemistry can become part of how stronger economies are built, writes Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, @UNEP ipsnews.net/2026/10/we-can…
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The Norwegian krill industry says it supports marine protection and better fisheries management. That commitment should include accepting a moratorium. But why do Norwegian companies continue taking this food source from Antarctica at all? ipsnews.net/2026/10/the-wo…
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As the largest Antarctic krill-fishing nation, Norway cannot continue to claim leadership in ocean protection while treating the needs of Antarctic wildlife as secondary to commercial expansion, writes polar explorer Liv Arnesen ipsnews.net/2026/10/the-wo…
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A global boycott of Antarctic krill products is gathering support. As a Norwegian, I want my country – the world’s largest krill-fishing nation – to change course when it comes to protecting Antarctica, writes polar explorer Liv Arnesen ipsnews.net/2026/10/the-wo…
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Flooding is an underestimated threat to food security. With sufficient funding and investment, scientists from multiple disciplines can collaborate to design innovative solutions and accelerate the discovery of new solutions, writes @EstherNgumbi ipsnews.net/2026/10/floodi…
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The world’s first woman Secretary-General must help the UN win back legitimacy and trust among the world’s people. To do that, she will need to be creative and not be constrained by tradition or fear of failure, writes @mandeep_tiwana1 ipsnews.net/2026/10/wanted…
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For small nations, multilateralism is not a matter of preference but a matter of survival.
Our protection has always been the rule of law, the strength of partnership, a seat at the table where every nation, large or small, has one vote,✍️ @jalixmichel ipsnews.net/2026/10/fifty-…
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The next UN Secretary-General will inherit a divided world and a weary institution, but also the most important idea humanity has ever agreed upon: that our future is shared, and that no nation, however small, should face it alone, writes @jalixmichel ipsnews.net/2026/10/fifty-…
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INDONESIA: Conservationist Farwiza Farhan says forest protection requires listening to communities: “the local people know and understand their problems and have the solutions”
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Indonesia's 2.7-million-hectare Leuser Ecosystem shelters tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans. Farwiza Farhan warns that encroachment is shrinking their habitat
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UNICEF estimated in 2023 that 640 million girls and women alive at the time had married in childhood. Progress is too slow to eliminate child marriage by 2030 ipsnews.net/2026/10/from-4…
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The veto must not become the voice of the United Nations. The General Assembly must assert its rightful authority, as empowered by Article 97, writes Anwarul K. Chowdhury ipsnews.net/2026/10/choosi…
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