When I was a young boy, my mother told me about the aunt I never knew. A girl who never had the chance to become more than a statistic, a gravestone in an overpopulated cemetery. "Nancy" was the thir

Island nations seek invest in their own Pacific Resilience Facility, as they struggle with the red-tape of international climate funds

From the Caribbean to the Pacific, leaders from small island States demanded climate justice, ocean protection and greater solidarity at the UN General Assembly on Friday. They warned that rising seas are already redrawing national boundaries, while the ripple effects of faraway wars are being felt on their shores. This edition of The Takeaway summarizes key points made during the fourth day of the annual high-level debate.

VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 24 (IPS) - After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant frontier—vast, ownerless and beyond meaningful protection—the High Seas Treaty entered into force on 17 January 2026.