The COVID-19 pandemic has brought “a tsunami of suffering”, taken over 3.4 million lives and 500 million jobs, while wiping trillions of dollars from...
Up to 400,000 could be displaced by new Goma eruption in DR Congo, warns UNICEF
With fears that one of the world’s most active volcanoes could erupt again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN Children’s...
COVID-19 Widens Learning Gap For Girls In Rural Ghana
ACCRA, May 27 (IPS) – Seventeen-year-old Muniratu Adams, a form two student of the Jeyiri D/A Junior High School at Funsi in the Wa...
UN salutes ‘dedication and bravery’ of peacekeepers; recognizes contributions of youth toward peace
With a focus for this year’s International Day of UN Peacekeepers on youth, peace and security, the UN chief told a commemorative ceremony on...
Youth Demand Action on Nature, Following IUCNs First-Ever Global Youth Summit
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 23 2021 (IPS) – Following almost two weeks of talks on issues such as climate change, innovation, marine conservation and social...
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Thursday for a “genuine and inclusive peace process” to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and a repeat of...
Hunter-gatherers first launched violent raids at least 13,400 years ago
More than 8,000 years before the rise of Egyptian civilization, hunter-gatherers went on the attack in the Nile Valley. Skeletons of adults, teens and...
The Issue is Exploitation, not Migration
MUMBAI, May 27 (IPS) – “There’s no other option but to return,” said Chitrasen in January 2021, when asked if he would migrate back...
Why Stakeholder Coalitions Could Be Key to the Glasgow Climate Summits Success
NEW YORK, May 27 (IPS) – The past few weeks brought a burst of optimism on the climate front. It began on April 18...
To find answers about the 1921 race massacre, Tulsa digs up its painful past
On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, walked into an elevator in downtown Tulsa, Okla. What happened next is unclear,...
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