Climate change-induced flooding has devastated the lives of people living on the Indian and Nepalese sides of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Although the floods have destroyed their lives and livelihoods, as this cross-border collaboration narrates, neither community has received any substantial compensation.

Girl refugees from Niger now living in Benin, often end up as child brides. Graphic: IPS By Issa Sikiti da SilvaCOTONOU/BENIN , Apr 26 2024 – A group of young girls aged between 15 and 17 sit tight, following attentively a lesson being taught by a Mualim (Islamic teacher) in a makeshift madrassah (Qur’anic school) located in one of the impoverished townships of Benin’s economic capital,...

Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza form a line to collect water in an Oxfam distribution. Credit: Oxfam By Jacob BatingaPHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Apr 26 2024 – As we pass 200 days of war, the population of northern Gaza is teetering on the brink of mass starvation. Oxfam analysis found that the 300,000 people in northern Gaza had been forced to survive on an average of 245 calories per day from...

Dr. Anne Larigauderie, IPBES Executive Secretary By Anne Larigauderie BONN, Germany, Apr 26 2024 – In December 2022, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) saw governments worldwide unite behind a set of ambitious targets aimed at addressing biodiversity loss and restoring natural ecosystems, through the Global Biodiversity Framework...