UN backs plans to ensure regular, healthy school meals for every child in need by 2030
Following pandemic-driven school closures, five UN agencies threw their strong support behind an international coalition to improve the nutrition, health and education of school-age...
With more than 300,000 women dying from cervical cancer each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) is joining advocates from across the globe on...
Conflict prevention means tackling economic, social, institutional drivers of strife
Preventing conflicts requires closing development gaps, shrinking inequality and bringing hope to people around the globe, senior UN officials told the Security Council on...
New high-speed video reveals the physics of a finger snap
It all happens in a snap. New high-speed video exposes the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it physics behind snapping your fingers. The footage reveals the extreme speed at...
Access to a new COVID-19 drug will be expanded in low- and middle-income countries following a voluntary licensing agreement between the pharmaceutical company Pfizer...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 16 (IPS) – Most countries in the Asia-Pacific region are on track to reach universal birth registration by 2030: an incredible...
Ethiopia: Mass arbitrary arrests target Tigrayans, says UN rights office
Over the past week, mass arrests of people reportedly of Tigrayan origin have continued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and elsewhere, the UN rights office said on...
Politicians Subsidise Fossil Fuel with Six Trillion Dollars in Just One Year
MADRID, Nov 16 (IPS) – It sounds incredible: while politicians have been cackling about the climate emergency and profiling in empty promises to halt...
The Squid Game: The Story about Losers in the Shadow of Glory
Seoul, Nov 16 (IPS) – Immediately after its release, the Squid Game went viral, grabbing the attention of the world’s entertainment stage. The grotesque...
‘Life as We Made It’ charts the past and future of genetic tinkering
Life as We Made ItBeth ShapiroBasic Books, $30 With genetic engineering, humans have recently unleashed a surreal fantasia: pigs that excrete less environment-polluting phosphorus,...
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