Responding to New Threats to Poverty Eradication in Asia
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 14 (IPS) – With consistent, robust economic growth, countries across Asia have made monumental strides in eradicating extreme poverty over the...
Dream. Dare. Do.
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (IPS) – Conflict, forced displacement, climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions of crisis-affected children and adolescents...
LONDON, Feb 14 (IPS) – I am not sure the world will ever forgive us for worsening vaccine inequality and treatment of Africa as...
Inequality Kills One Person Every Four Seconds
Feb 14 (IPS) – Inequality is deadly… It contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day—or one person every four seconds....
Call for Increased Global Efforts to Ease Africas Climate-Induced Water Crisis
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 14 (IPS) – When years ago warnings were sounded that future wars would be fought not over oil but water, the...
ONE OCEAN SUMMIT An Opportunity For Blue Transformation
ROME, Feb 14 (IPS) – The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet. There is no question it is critical for our...
How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits
Strange giant planets known as hot Jupiters, which orbit close to their suns, got kicked onto their peculiar paths by nearby planets and stars,...
Freshwater ice can melt into scallops and spikes
Water’s wacky density leads to strange effects that researchers are still uncovering. Typically, liquids become denser the more they cool. But freshwater is densest...
Radio: The universal medium that leaves no one behind
In the age of new communication technologies and social media, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recently announced the designation of new FM frequencies to...
Ensuring safety and inclusive elections in Timor-Leste: A UN Resident Coordinator blog
As Timor-Leste prepares to choose a new president in March, Roy Trivedy, the senior UN official in the country, explains the Organization’s role in...
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