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...
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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...
UN chief ‘encouraged’ by first joint statement from key nuclear armed States
The Secretary-General, António Guterres, has welcomed a joint statement issued on Monday by five nuclear armed States on the prevention of nuclear war and the avoidance...
Ecstasy as Zimbabwe’s Small-holder Farmers Secure European Pineapple Market
Harare, Zimbabwe, Jan 04 (IPS) – In her wildest dreams, smallholder farmer Sarudzai Sithole never imagined that her pineapples could someday stock the produce...
Young Yosemite toads survive winter, then emerge with a deadly fungus 
‘I have not lost my dreams’: Refugee education funding cuts threaten millions 
For Pakistan Rising Fistula Cases Make SDG 3 Goal Elusive 
Renewables, Farmer Aggregation Offer Solutions to Africa’s Post-Harvest Losses