Category: Internasional

New guidelines on abortion are now available from the World Health Organization (WHO), in a bid to prevent more than 25 million unsafe terminations that happen each year. Read the full story, “WHO issues new guidelines on abortion to help deliver lifesaving care”, on globalissues.org →

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has said that it is taking measures as best it can, to try and protect some of Ukraine’s priceless heritage from destruction in the face of the Russian invasion, noting that the international community also has a duty to help protect and preserve the country’s historic buildings, […]

SANTIAGO, Mar 09 (IPS) – Chile could change the course of its history and become a diverse and multicolored country this year with a “plurinational and intercultural state” that recognizes and promotes the development of the native peoples that inhabited this territory before the Spanish conquest.Read the full story, “New Constitution Would Declare Chile a […]

The exodus of millions of Ukrainians from their country following the Russian invasion could overwhelm neighbouring countries, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday, as the head of the UN Children’s Fund, expressed her horror over the reported destruction of a maternity hospital in the stricken coastal city of Mariupol, which has been under heavy bombardment for […]

Almost 500 million people have been infected with the coronavirus since March 2020 and new variants are still a threat. This Friday marks two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) characterised the global spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic.  Read the full story, “Two years on, COVID-19 pandemic ‘far from over’”, on globalissues.org →

The snakes and horned lizards were “concealed in the man’s jacket, pants pockets and groin area”.

Yoon Suk-yeol (R) beat the ruling party’s Lee Jae-myung (L) following a close-run race.

Officials are “very concerned” about the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine escalating.

The US rejected an offer by Poland to transfer jets to the US as a step to sending them to Ukraine.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, moments of hope and music have emerged on social media.