COLOMBO, 2 December 2025 – Cyclone Ditwah has left children across Sri Lanka facing an escalating humanitarian crisis. After making landfall on the East Coast early on 28 November, the storm caused widespread floods and devastating landslides.

Artificial Intelligence is advancing rapidly, yet many countries remain without the infrastructure, skills, and governance systems needed to capture its benefits.

A successful just transition requires legal systems capable of managing economic transformation while safeguarding people, livelihoods, and ecosystems.

Violence against women and girls is not inevitable. It is shaped by systems, policies and everyday choices and it can be dismantled. Orange the World, a UN initiative, is a global call to break the silence, confront the roots of gender-based violence and stand with those who resist it. At ISS, researchers, students and partners work across the world to uncover the patterns, power structures....