Protecting education, means ‘we protect the future’: UN chief
The global community needs to say with one voice that “attacks on schools must stop”, the UN chief urged a virtual event on Thursday commemorating the International Day to Protect Education from Attack. ...
Global community can still shape ‘new reality’ in Afghanistan
While the choices available in Afghanistan are “not comfortable” ones, continued international engagement and unwavering commitment to the country’s people can help steer the...
UN chief: Dag Hammarskjöld ‘set the highest standard for public service’
The General Assembly this Thursday held a commemorative event to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, where current chief António Guterres, noted that in his...
Caribbean Under Threat: Report Reveals Enormous Challenges for the Region
Kingston, Sep 09 (IPS) – Less than halfway into the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Jamaica and its Caribbean neighbours were already tallying the costs...
Hunger spikes in Haiti following deadly earthquake
Around 980,000 Haitians in the four districts most affected by the August 14 earthquake are now living with acute food insecurity, according to new UN food security data released on Thursday. Read the full...
A Tale of Two Internationally Trained Medical Doctors in Canada
NEW DELHI, India, Sep 09 (IPS) – Wagma Saad, is an Internationally Trained Medical Doctor (ITMD) from Kabul Medical University, Afghanistan, currently living in...
Infants may laugh like some apes in their first months of life
Babies may laugh like some apes a few months after birth before transitioning to chuckling more like human adults, a new study finds. Laughter...
Clouds affected by wildfire smoke may produce less rain
When smoke rises from wildfires in the western United States, it pummels clouds with tiny airborne particles. What happens next with these clouds has...
In a Watershed Year for Climate Change, the Commonwealth Secretary-General calls for Urgent, Decisive and Sustained Climate Action
London, Sep 08 (IPS) – This November, five years after signing the Paris Agreement and pledging to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius...
Twenty Years After September 11, 2001: Institutions on Decline, But Religion Rising?
NEW YORK, Sep 09 (IPS) – Described as the “worst terrorist attack ever in the United States”, September 11, 2001 is a moment which...
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