Economies in the Asia-Pacific region need to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including to maintain their trade competitiveness as carbon taxes at borders threaten to rise, according to a new United...
‘The time for action’ to support most fragile States: Guterres
From COVID-19 to the climate crisis and growing inequality, Secretary-General António Guterres underscored, at a financial meeting on Thursday, the importance of greater commitment...
India: Gaps in the Governments Plan to Help Unorganised Workers
Oct 11 (IPS) – The Government of India launched the e-Shram portal with the mandate of registering 380,000,000 unorganised workers in the country. The...
Mental Health at a Cost, Inequality
Oct 11 (IPS) – World Mental Health Day was on October 10, 2021. The theme for this year was “Mental Health in an unequal...
Methods of getting results from real-world experiments win 2021 economics Nobel
Some of the most insightful — and now most celebrated — studies of such major social issues as minimum wages and immigration have seized...
NEW YORK, Oct 11 (IPS) – This year’s International Day of the Girl theme, Digital Generation, Our Generation, celebrates the potential of digital technologies...
Discussing gender equality in Jordan can lead to difficult conversations, as Balqees Shahin, a volunteer for the UN Women gender equality campaign HeforShe, has...
BEIJING, Oct 11 (IPS) – China was one of the architects of the United Nations and was the first signatory of the UN Charter...
Day of the Girl Child: A Digital Generation Where Every Girl Counts
NEW YORK, Oct 11 (IPS) – The theme of this year’s annual International Day of the Girl Child, on October 11, “Digital generation. Our...
The earliest evidence of tobacco use dates to over 12,000 years ago
Ancient North Americans started using tobacco around 12,500 to 12,000 years ago, roughly 9,000 years before the oldest indications that they smoked the plant...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now