The UN chief has welcomed a decision on Friday by the Security Council to extend the UN cross-border aid operation in northwest Syria for...
A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of emergency aid: UNICEF
Nearly a third of all children in Haiti – numbering around 1.5 million – are in urgent need of emergency relief due to rising...
Bridging the Gap and Crossing the Bridge
NEW YORK, Jul 09 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot WaitIt may be a challenge, but it is also an absolute necessity:...
A Film Challenging Religious Norms
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 09 (IPS) – When Turkish- Norwegian writer and filmmaker Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen heard about Seyran Ates’ mixed gender mosque in...
50 years ago, scientists found a virus lurking in human cancer cells
A virus from human cancer — Science News, July 10, 1971 [Researchers] cultured and isolated the … virus from tissue of a child patient...
The gap in parenting time between middle- and working-class moms has shrunk
Time is a finite resource. So it’s not entirely surprising that after decades of ramping up time spent on parenting, some well-educated mothers appear...
Why planting tons of trees isn’t enough to solve climate change
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to climate change. When it...
Q&A: UN Food Systems Summit Opportunity for the World to Unite on Healthy, Fair & Sustainable Food Systems
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 09 (IPS) – Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended every sphere of life, the world was lagging on a goal to end...
The New Social Contract: an Opportunity for Deliberative Participation
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 09 (IPS) – These days there hasn’t been certainly a shortage of reports portraying the decline of liberal democracy around the...
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health,...
UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns 
Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister 
‘Rising seas are sinking futures’ 
Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’