Argentina Takes Controversial Step Backwards in Biofuel Production
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 30 (IPS) – Argentina, historically an agricultural powerhouse, has become a major producer of biofuels in recent years. However, this South...
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As the school year begins for millions of children in Europe and Central Asia, UN health and child experts on Monday issued a series of COVID-19...
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (IPS) – A committee that has spent almost a year negotiating the terms of a temporary intellectual property waiver for...
SINGAPORE, Aug 30 (IPS) – Some years ago, on a piece on the Afghan crisis I had written that Mullah Omar’s face bore no...
ROME, Aug 30 (IPS) – As the Western occupation of Afghanistan has come to an end, TV news is broadcasting harrowing scenes of death...
Ensuring the right to a nationality, more pressing than ever: UNHCR
Ensuring the right to a nationality and eradicating statelessness is more pressing than ever, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, as it...
On International Day, UN chief calls for action to end enforced disappearances
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to fulfil their obligations to prevent and prosecute cases of enforced disappearance, a “cowardly practice” which the...
With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world “cannot abandon them now”, a senior official with the UN Children’s Fund...
Cook Islands Entrepreneur Develops Hydroponics Greenhouse to Boost Local Food Production
CANBERRA, Australia, Aug 29 (IPS) – Finding ways to be smarter producers of food was a priority in small island developing states (SIDS) before...
The ‘energy patriots’ bringing electricity to Indonesia’s remote villages
For millions of villagers in Indonesia’s remote areas, a 12-hour-per-day erratic electricity supply is the norm. With students studying by candlelight at night and...
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Human cost of violence in South Sudan ‘continues to grow’ 
Afghan Men Quietly Resist Taliban Ban on Girls’ Education