Barilla Foundation Report Highlights Need for Food Companies to Align with Sustainable Development Goals
Sep 16 (IPS) – In the backdrop of rising hunger, half of the world’s population living on unhealthy diets, a third of agricultural produce...
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Venezuela’s Glimmer of Hope
MEXICO CITY, Sep 17 (IPS) – This is the third serious attempt to inject some momentum in the negotiations between the Venezuelan government and...
Annual Secretary-General’s report reveals a world tested ‘to the limit’
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be the greatest shared global challenge since the UN’s founding 75 years ago, according to the annual Report of the Secretary-General on...
The people of Burundi continue to endure serious human rights violations including possible crimes against humanity, the majority committed by those with links to...
UN Women’s feminist roadmap tackles triple crises of jobs, care and climate
The UN’s gender equality and empowerment organization on Thursday published a flagship feminist plan for economic recovery and transformation, which aims to learn the...
Unilateral and coercive sanctions imposed by governments can create severe and undue suffering for innocent people who bear no responsibility for alleged misconduct, the...
The independence of Venezuela’s justice system has been “deeply eroded”, to such an extent that it plays a significant role in the State’s repression...
Africa needs around 470 million doses to accomplish the global of fully vaccinating 40 per cent of its population by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. Read the full...
77 million children have spent 18 months out of class: #ReopenSchools, urges UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the world is facing an education crisis due to the COVID pandemic, that has left nearly 77 million children shut out of...
The ozone layer – a fragile shield of gas that protects the Earth from the harmful rays of the sun – is “on the...
A new cancer vaccine may keep melanoma from coming back 
Can restoring land create jobs? These young entrepreneurs are proving it 
How memories may survive hibernation 
Less sugar early in life might decrease dementia risk