Truth as War Causality? The Case of Ethiopia
STOCKHOLM, Jan 05 (IPS) – A brutal drama is unfolding in Ethiopia and it is difficult to find straightforward accounts of what is happening...
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WASHINGTON DC, Jan 05 (IPS) – Across Latin America and the Caribbean there is a culture of impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence. Crimes...
Population Ageing: An Inescapable Future
PORTLAND, USA, Jan 05 (IPS) – The ageing of human populations is an inescapable demographic future. That evolving and universal future is increasingly challenging...
Free at Last: Trafficked Woman’s Story a Warning to Other Vulnerable Job Seekers
KIGALI, Rwanda, Jan 05 (IPS) – When Kamikazi * from Gisagara, a district in Southern Rwanda, was forced to quit her job due to...
Warring parties should never attack children or the services they rely on, a senior official with the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, said on Tuesday,...
Harsh winter fuels ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday that a harsh winter in Afghanistan is aggravating already severe conditions faced by millions across the country. Read the...
Pakistan: Smartcard registration drive for Afghan refugees ends
The first drive to verify data relating to around 1.4 million Afghan refugees on the move over past decade in Pakistan has been concluded,...
World Braille Day: Pandemic shows importance of information access for all
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how critical it is to ensure essential information is accessible to everyone, including people living with disabilities. On World...
70 per cent vaccination target must be met to ward off Omicron: WHO
As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to surge across the world, the UN health agency on Tuesday said that it was crucial that...
Bangladesh: Fire rips through COVID treatment centre for Myanmar refugees
A devastating fire has ripped through a COVID-19 treatment centre for Myanmar refugees sheltering in Bangladesh, UN migration agency (IOM) said on Tuesday. Read the full...
Monkeys hunt small animals when fruit is scarce 
Beyond the Horizon: Raising a Generation to Protect the Blue Pacific 
Once upon a time, insects had 24 legs 
Microbes might get freeze-dried on the moon’s south pole