Pension Peril Among Populations
PORTLAND, USA, September 28 (IPS) – Dozens of government-funded pension programs providing benefits to hundreds of millions of men and women face growing fiscal...
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India Still Needs to Address Harmful Dark Skin Stereotypes
NEW DEHLI, September 28 (IPS) – As a young girl, Sarada Murlidharan cringed at the thought of going to school. It was not the...
Magnetism may have helped kick-start our solar system
Ancient meteorites reveal a powerful magnetic field that may have helped feed the growing sun.
Peru’s penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse.
Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding out hope that their numbers...
The Dollar-Gold Standard’s Lingering Demise
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, September 28 (IPS) – The 1944 Bretton Woods (BW) conference accepted the US demand to use the dollar to settle international...
BRAZIL: ‘Resistance Is Intergenerational, and Art Is How Energy Gets Renewed’
 : CIVICUS discusses the role of art in climate and rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Wheeler, executive director and co-founder of...
The Global Leaders Network Pushes to Protect Women’s and Children’s Health
UNITED NATIONS, September 28 (IPS) – In the wake of the largest decline in global health financing on record, the Global Leaders Network (GLN)...
The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 5
From artificial intelligence to migration, some of the forces reshaping the twenty-first century took centre stage at the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Leaders...
Lavrov issues call for new Eurasian ‘security architecture’
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, accused Western countries of destabilising the world through “force and double standards” in his address to the UN General...
Cuba warns against ‘law of the jungle’ as Foreign Minister denounces US pressure
Cuba’s Foreign Minister warned the UN General Assembly on Saturday that escalating military and economic pressure in Latin America and the Caribbean was threatening...
World News in Brief: Refugee funding, US migration policy triggers ‘cascade’ of rights violations, world forests report, restorative justice in Colombia 
From energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security 
Sudan tells UN: No imposed solutions to country’s conflict 
‘Ballot must replace the bullets’, South Sudan tells General Assembly ahead of elections