Guess Whos Behind Paralysis on COVID19 in the UN Committee on World Food Security
ROME, Oct 19 (IPS) – ‘COVID 19 has multiplied hunger and malnutrition challenges. We need transformative action!’ The first speaker at the UN Committee...
Turning Carriers of Water into Managers of Water
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Oct 19 (IPS) – Each morning, Langelihle Tshuma checks her taps to confirm the water supply before preparing for the day ahead....
An agile gecko found in India named after the legendary Jackie Chan
Martial arts legend Jackie Chan may not be aware of this yet but some of his biggest fans are a group of adoring herpetologists...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (IPS) – The bogey of inflation has been revived. Dubious pre-pandemic economic progress, fiscal constraints and vaccine apartheid...
NEW YORK, Oct 19 (IPS) – Last week’s annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G20 finance ministers illustrated that...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has urged greater international support for the more than 13 million Syrians who’ve been displaced in the past 10 years. ...
UNESCO ‘eDNA’ initiative to ‘unlock’ knowledge for biodiversity protection
To understand the richness of biodiversity across World Heritage marine sites, the UN scientific organization launched on Monday a project to protect and preserve biodiversity, based on the...
The announcement last week of a unilateral ceasefire in the Central African Republic is among recent positive steps in the country, the top UN official there told the Security Council on...
UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ at reported air strikes on Tigray capital
The United Nations has received alarming reports of aerial attacks in the residential areas of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, on Monday morning local time. Read the full story, “UN chief ‘deeply...
Gender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill or kill women’s freedom of expression, an independent UN...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now