COVID-19 cases have increased in the last week with 3.6 million infections reported globally, as opposed to the 3.3 million over the previous seven days, the World Health Organization...
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Feature: Violence against women must stop; five stories of strength and survival
Conflicts, humanitarian crises and increasing climate-related disasters have led to higher levels of violence against women and girls (VAWG), which has only intensified during...
Yet Another Scourge: A Third of All Women are Subjected to Violence
MADRID, Nov 23 (IPS) – Thirty percent of women and girls suffered physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, most frequently by an intimate...
Feminism Weaponized Against Trans People
NEW YORK / KAMPALA, Nov 24 (IPS) – There is a resurgence of anti-trans sentiment right now. It’s not only Dave Chapelle’s toxic rants...
Ongoing Pandemic Push Africa’s Children Out of School
Nairobi, Nov 24 (IPS) – Kenya’s secondary schools’ administration has been in the eye of a storm since schools reopened in October 2021. Since...
No Vaccine for the Pandemic of Violence Against Women in Latin America
LIMA, Nov 24 (IPS) – This article is part of IPS coverage of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on...
Approximately three billion people, almost 40 per cent of the world’s population, cannot afford a healthy diet and another one billion people would join their ranks should further unpredictable events reduce incomes by one-third, the UN food...
War-torn Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world, but recovery is possible if the conflict ends now, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said in...
Following “hard-earned” parliamentary elections on 10 October, Iraqis of all political stripes must exercise restraint, eschew violence and await the outcome’s final certification by...
WHO updates guidelines on COVID-related organ inflammation in children
Children who have developed organ inflammation linked to COVID-19 infection should be given steroid treatment in hospital, the World Health Organization, (WHO), said on Tuesday. Read the full story,...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
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