Team from UN Mission in Colombia attacked, vehicles torched
The UN Mission in Colombia was the target of an attack on Thursday, when three vehicles that were part of a joint expedition travelling through a...
More than 100 laws that remain in place around the world which discriminate against people affected by leprosy, should be abolished, an independent UN...
A UN envoy will travel to Burkina Faso over the weekend on a “good offices mission” in the wake of the military coup last...
Lebanon crisis robbing young people of their futures: UNICEF
More than four in 10 young Lebanese over just a 12-month period, reduced spending on education to buy basic food, medicine and other essential...
Boys Sold by Trusted Villager Turned Human Trafficker
Lucknow, India, Jan 28 (IPS) – Friends Ajay and Durgesh were lured from the same village in the remote and poverty-stricken countryside of eastern...
Here are the Top 10 science anniversaries of 2022
Even though it’s only even odds that 2022 will turn out to be less of a disaster than 2021 (or 2020), at least 2022...
50 years ago, researchers thought Americans outgrew marijuana
Marijuana commission finds usage high — Science News, January 29, 1972 Approximately 24 million Americans have used marijuana at least one time. A national...
Materials of the last century shaped modern life, but at a price
A 1920s science headline, “Ice cream from crude oil,” may best capture the era’s unbridled enthusiasm for chemistry. “Edible fats, the same as those...
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 28 (IPS) – Consider the situation. Faced with growing fiscal stress, the government of an energy exporting country decides to cut...
Boys and girls caught up in intense fighting which raged for six days around a besieged prison in northeast Syria, need protection and assistance,...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis