What we know and don’t know about the omicron coronavirus variant
Another coronavirus variant has emerged, and with it comes a new wave of uncertainty and unanswered questions. Days after the news broke, we remain...
Erin Garcia de Jesús
Some 2.9 billion people still have never used the internet, and 96 per cent live in developing countries, a new UN report has found. According to the International Telecommunication Union...
Call It Old, Contemporary, Modern or Whatever: It Is Slavery
MADRID, Dec 01 (IPS) – No matter what it is called — it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The...
Women and girls at high risk of being pushed into modern slavery
Women and children are at high risk of being pushed into contemporary forms of slavery, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Women and girls at high...
This dinosaur had a weapon shaped like an Aztec war club on its tail
A newly discovered species of ankylosaur had a bizarre club on its tail unlike that of any known dinosaur. With its flat surface and...
Ancient footprints suggest a mysterious hominid lived alongside Lucy’s kind
An individual from an enigmatic hominid species strode across a field of wet, volcanic ash in what is now East Africa around 3.66 million...
Ancient giant orangutans evolved smaller bodies surprisingly slowly
Giant orangutans that once dwelled in mainland Southeast Asian forests belonged to a single species that gradually shrank in size over nearly 2 million...
GENEVA, Dec 01 (IPS) – This week I called out to the world to warn them that inequalities are making us all unsafe. I...
Series of appalling deadly attacks on displaced people in DR Congo
The UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, is “appalled by a series of deadly attacks” on displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),...
The head of the UN health agency has criticized “blunt” and “blanket” measures taken by countries in the past few days to stop the spread of...
Why the UN General Assembly still matters 
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it 
Surviving the summer 
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak