DR Congo: Limitations to ‘strictly military approach’ to stem violence, mission chief warns
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo told the Security Council on Monday that “a lasting solution” to the violence...
MANOA, Hawaii / TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec 06 (IPS) – Many countries around the world have punished most of the African continent for the scientific...
With 280 prisoners dead in Ecuador, UN experts call for urgent action
Following a series of riots which have left more than 280 inmates dead and hundreds injured in Ecuadorian prisons this year, UN independent human rights experts on Monday called for urgent government action to address the...
The UN’s top human rights official on Monday condemned the imprisonment of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi by a military-controlled court, and called for...
COVID contributed to 69,000 malaria deaths WHO finds, though ‘doomsday scenario’ averted
Disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between 2019 and 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Poor Communities on the Salvadoran Coast Face Constant Threat of Eviction
SAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador, Dec 06 (IPS) – Small farmer Francisco Martínez pushed his son’s wheelchair to another part of the courtyard...
Light-colored feathers may help migrating birds stay cool on long flights
From teeny hummingbirds to giant whooping cranes, roughly half of the world’s more than 10,000 bird species migrate. Longer wings and beefed-up flying muscles...
Invasive grasses are taking over the American West’s sea of sagebrush
No one likes a cheater, especially one that prospers as easily as the grass Bromus tectorum does in the American West. This invasive species...
Climate change could make Virginia’s Tangier Island uninhabitable by 2051
Virginia’s Tangier Island is rapidly disappearing. Rising sea levels are exacerbating erosion and flooding, and could make the speck of land in the Chesapeake...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 06 (IPS) – The 21-month long pandemic, which began with the outbreak of the deadly corona virus back in March 2020,...
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