War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including by external actors, a...
IUCN World Conservation Congress Warns Humanity at Tipping Point
St Davids, Wales, Oct 04 (IPS) – The world’s most influential conservation congress, meeting for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19...
The world currently faces unprecedented catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity, according to UN agencies, and around $6.6 billion is needed urgently, to support 41 million in danger of sliding into famine. ...
For the education system to recover from the COVID pandemic, it requires more investment in the well-being, training, professional development and working conditions of...
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must be sustainable and inclusive, Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks to a major UN trade conference which opened...
Only around 1 in 5 space industry workers are women
The number of women employed in the international space industry represents just 20-22 percent of the workforce, according to figures released by the UN; roughly the same proportion as 30...
A custom brain implant lifted a woman’s severe depression
A personalized brain implant eased the crushing symptoms of a woman’s severe depression, allowing her to once again see the beauty of the world....
Scientists are one step closer to error-correcting quantum computers
Mistakes happen — especially in quantum computers. The fragile quantum bits, or qubits, that make up the machines are notoriously error-prone, but now scientists...
Ivorian Cocoa Farmers Are Beating a System To Reduce Child Labour: Here’s How
Oct 04 (IPS) – The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the late 1990s. This followed...
Discovering how we sense temperature and touch wins the 2021 medicine Nobel Prize
Some touching research took the 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. David Julius of the University of California, San Francisco and Ardem Patapoutian...
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