Nelson Mandela: ‘Synonymous with the fight for justice and equality’
Celebrating what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 102nd birthday on Wednesday, the UN deputy chief hailed the man who led the struggle that ended the racist apartheid system in his native South Africa as exemplifying “courage, compassion and an...
NEWS
Lifesaving help needed for Venezuela cancer patients hit by US sanctions
Independent UN rights experts on Wednesday warned that hundreds of Venezuelan cancer patients could die because they have been caught up in the excessively strict application...
The head of the UN World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welcomed the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a chance...
Historic docklands and buildings in the UK city of Liverpool have been removed from the UN cultural body UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites, it announced on...
Confronting a Worsening Climate
URBANA, Illinois, Jul 21 (IPS) – Across the United States, the last few months have brought along many climate-linked disasters. From surging wildfires in...
NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) – The writer is Senior Africa Researcher at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)Tsaone Basimanebotlhe was not expecting security...
Shortages Reveal Low Priority of Womens Health in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal, Jul 21 (IPS) – One year after Nepal’s Ministry of Health (MoH) appealed to international organisations in the country to urgently supply...
Vaccines Delayed are Vaccines Denied
Jul 20 (IPS) – “Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the...
Conceptual Advances for United Nations 2.0
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 20 (IPS) – The writer is a Research Analyst at Stimson CenterThe forthcoming UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report, to be...
Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned the “horrific bomb attack targeting civilians” at a busy market in the north-east of the Iraqi capital, just before the Eid al-Adha holiday. Read...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now