With the chief of the UN’s gender empowerment agency declaring that women are still “sitting in the corridors when men are inside at the table negotiating peace”, the historic Generation Equality Forum in Paris concluded on Friday with new commitments designed to address that, and...
Families Search for Loved Ones Gone Missing in Post-War El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 02 (IPS) – The pain that María Estela Guevara feels over the disappearance of her niece Wendy Martínez remains as intense...
Dalit and Muslim Indian Women Leading Change in South Sudan
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 02 (IPS) – Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have...
If A Nuclear War Must Never Be Fought, Then …
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 02 (IPS) – The writer is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association in Washington DC. After more than a...
A WWII submarine-hunting device helped prove the theory of plate tectonics
This is the story of how the world travels of a 19th century explorer, two bar magnets and the World War II hunt for...
What experts know so far about the delta variant
Yet another coronavirus variant has public health officials around the globe scrambling to control its spread. The delta variant, which first emerged in India,...
Leading figures from government, business and civil society are preparing to take part in this year’s High Level Political Forum on sustainable development (HLPF),...
The UN’s Pause campaign, which encourages social media and other news consumers to stop and check the validity of information they share, received a major endorsement on Thursday...
Delta variant drives Africa COVID threat to ‘whole new level´: WHO warns; ‘dominant’ in Europe by August
With cases now doubling in Africa every three weeks, the Delta variant of COVID-19 has spread to 16 countries and it is present in...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic had triggered the roll-out of an “unprecedented number” of new and often innovative social protection measures, it was unable to...
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