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As the Taliban takes control of the country, Afghanistan has again become an extremely dangerous place to be a woman.

The writer is a Researcher with the Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Female peacekeepers from South Africa on patrol in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. July 2021. Credit: MONUSCO/Michael Ali STOCKHOLM / THE HAGUE, Aug 4 2021 (IPS) - The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic saw wide-ranging impacts on multilateral peace operations. The crisis simultaneously affected all operations, host nations, headquarte...

LETHBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 29 2021 (IPS) - From an international humanitarian perspective, the first half of 2021 has been disappointing. We’re no further ahead in ending the conflict in Syria and Yemen. From the fledgling democracy that it had become, Myanmar has descended into what most of its people had hoped was a bygone era of military rule. And in Ethiopia, where its Prime Minister, Ably Ahmed, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, armed conflict in Tigray is preventing the 2020 winn...

Geniale Technik Dokureihe, GB 2019 Die Truppen der Infanterie sind bei kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen zumeist die ersten an der Frontlinie. Sie werden äußerst kurzfristig vor Ort eingesetzt und das überall auf der Welt. In dieser Folge geht es um die Hightech-Vehikel, die der Infanterie zur Verfügung stehen, um an Land, auf See oder in der Luft aktionsfähig zu bleiben. Dazu werden ein Flugzeug des Modells Boeing C-17 der US Air Force sowie der Schützenpanzer Stryker...

Apsilankęs keliose tokiose stovyklose, Samiras užsidegė noru kariauti Jemeno pilietiniame kare, husių pusėje. Treniruočių stovykloje metu penkiolikmečiui al-Huti sukilėliai pasakojo apie savo ilgametę kovą su Jemeno valdžia iš savo perspektyvos. Religijos mokytojai taip pat diegė ideologiją, kurią vadina šventąja misija arba džihadu, ir aiškino, kodėl svarbu kovoti ginant savo gimtąją žemę. Jie tikino, kad Dievas pritaria jÅ�...

>> im told we are getting a joint statement here, so lets -- wolf, we are getting a joint statement here that im just pulling up. let me read it aloud, a joint statements, as president biden called it, the strategic stability. of course, that is the point of all. this lets read it together -- we, the president of the united states and president of the russian federation note the united states and russia have demonstrated, even if periods of tension, theyre able to make progress on our shared goa...

Acute hunger is expected to soar in over 20 countries in the next few months, warns a recent report on global “hunger hotspots” from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Worl

On the night of Friday 4th June, a group of unidentified armed men stormed the village of Solhan in the north of Burkina Faso, shooting indiscriminately, looting the market and burning homes. A report

The General Assembly votes on the Respect for Human Rights in Armed Conflicts and the Question of Namibia at the 1922nd and 1923rd plenary meetings of the 25th session.

Population decline is seen, particularly for species recognised by IUCN as being at risk of extinction