Growing Digital Divide Threatens Recovery from Covid-19
LONDON, Nov 15 (IPS) – A growing digital divide is emerging as a major threat to a robust recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, according...
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Inequity in Funding: Africa’s Agripreneurs Pay a High Price for Start Up Finance
Nov 15 (IPS) – Africa has pinned its hopes on agriculture for the creation of jobs and the resulting reduction of poverty. But its...
Asian Staffers at UN Launch Network to Protect Rights & Fight Racism
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (IPS) – The United Nations, which consists of 193 member states, has long been accused of discrimination against staffers who...
Glasgow Summit Ends Amidst Climate of Disappointment
GLASGOW, Nov 14 (IPS) – Developing countries will surely remember the Glasgow climate summit, the most important since 2015, as a fiasco that left...
In post-quake Haiti, rebuilding lives and welcoming new ones
Three months after a devastating earthquake struck the south-west of Haiti, a hospital that was largely destroyed has continued to give mothers and their...
After extending the COP26 climate negotiations an extra day, nearly 200 countries in Glasgow, Scotland, adopted on Saturday an outcome document that, according to...
Climate action can be the driver for a green and equitable future for all, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said at the TED Countdown Summit, urging people everywhere to demand that leaders deliver...
Diabetes Equates the Rich and the Poor
NAIROBI, Nov 12 (IPS) – Although for different reasons, diabetes appears to be one of the few cases that put rich and poor societies...
Feature: Female mentors empower girls to reach for the stars in space careers
Growing up in 1970s New York, Mindy Howard received no encouragement at home and was ridiculed at school for her dream to become an...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged Libyans to forge a spirt of national unity and overcome any remaining differences ahead of landmark presidential and...
Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chief 
Rohingyas in Myanmar suffering ‘heartbreaking’ misery and cruelty 
As wars spread, the global food system unravels 
One million children in Afghanistan face deadly malnutrition