United Nations : Human Rights Council to hold special session on OPT (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The UN Human Rights Council is to hold a special session on 27 May on "the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem."

Opinion : Jerusalem - a flashpoint for conflict or microcosm of peace? (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
Regardless of how the current and future violent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem will end, there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes the capital of a Palestinian state while the city remains united.

Kenya : County climate risk profiles critical and timely for smallholders (PRIV)
(IPS, Nairobi)
Peris Wanjiku, a smallholder farmer in Othaya, Nyeri County, which lies approximately 152 kilometres from Kenya's capital, Nairobi, has watched as her fellow farmers have slowly started to sell off their land in the face of increasingly erratic weather patterns.