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Victims of trafficking by terrorist groups are too often being punished instead of protected, a human rights expert warned the General Assembly this Wednesday. Read the full...
Although the outcome of the latest meeting of the Syrian Constitutional Committee was “a disappointment”, members must continue their vital work, the UN Special Envoy for the...
Transforming Food Systems To Defeat Hunger
ROME, Oct 27 (IPS) – Mario Lubetkin is Assistant Director General at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)During October, the...
The antidepressant fluvoxamine can keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital
An inexpensive, easy-to-take pill could be the next weapon in the arsenal against COVID-19. Taking the antidepressant fluvoxamine within days of showing symptoms of...
Doubt cast on theorized ‘sterile’ particles leaves a neutrino mystery unsolved
For decades, physicists have suspected an interloper. A reclusive, hypothetical subatomic particle might be creeping into studies of neutrinos, nearly massless particles with no...
Climate Crisis Fuels Exodus to Mexico, Both Waystation and Destination
MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 2021 (IPS) – In September, 31-year-old Yesenia decided to leave her home on the outskirts of the northern Honduran city...
Mental Health Achievements in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 27 (IPS) – Mental health is a state of well-being when both your body and your mind are in balance, and...
More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a senior official with the regional arm...
Peacekeeping chief encouraged by ‘warming’ relations between Sudan and South Sudan over Abyei
The Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations told the Security Council on Wednesday that he was encouraged by a thaw in relations between South Sudan and Sudan, now that both have established national committees on the question of Abyei,...
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