Mathematician J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was a Manhattan Project standout despite racism
The Manhattan Project brought together the finest scientific minds in the United States for one urgent purpose: to build an atomic bomb. That included...
Emily Conover
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 22 (IPS) – COVID-19 has become a “developing country pandemic”, retreating from the North’s mass vaccination. With developing countries...
Three Million in Three Years: Jamaicas Tree-Planting to Tackle Climate Change
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jun 22 (IPS) – By the time he is finished, Dr. Satyanarayana Parvataneni expects he will be responsible for planting over 200,000...
The Importance of Being Listed: Why Politics Threaten the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict
WASHINGTON DC, Jun 22 (IPS) – Frontline workers who document and respond to violations against children have faced a particularly challenging last year, from...
More than 19,300 boys and girls affected by war last year were victims of grave violations such as recruitment or rape, and the COVID-19...
Pandemic ‘rolled back’ sustainable development funding for weak economies: UNCTAD
Financial assistance to the world’s 83 weakest economies fell by 15 per cent in 2020, to $35 billion as a direct result of the...
Human Rights Council urged to support UN chief’s call for a ‘new social contract’ after COVID-19
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Monday urged UN Member States to promote a more inclusive post-pandemic recovery to help the world’s most vulnerable recover from...
‘His words set a standard and will long endure’: UN mourns passing of Edward Mortimer
Friends and former colleagues have been mourning the passing over the weekend of Edward Mortimer, the Chief Speechwriter for former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting a South African consortium in establishing the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, the UN agency...
South Sudan, the UN’s youngest Member State, is marking its tenth anniversary of independence amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges,...
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