Rwandan Farmers Pin Hopes on New Tech to Tackle Food Losses
KIGALI, Rwanda, Jul 22 (IPS) – Rwanda is trying to reduce post-harvest loss by relying on new technologies to increase the amount of food...
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Its Time To Reopen Primary Schools in India
Jul 22 (IPS) – “The government should open schools, even if it’s for an hour, to facilitate some student-teacher interaction. Most teachers feel that...
NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) – Professor Azza Karam is Secretary General, Religions for Peace UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes “our solidarity based...
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...
The head of the UN World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welcomed the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a chance...
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...
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...
Gaza: Children still at risk despite drop in acute hunger 
100 days of Ebola and the race to stop the spread 
South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Violence Slows SDG Goals, Rips Apart Africans’ Free Movement Call 
Global food supply has become ‘collateral damage’ in conflicts: Secretary-General