Sowing Water by Restoring Ancient Ditches in the Peruvian Highlands
LIMA, Jun 01 (IPS) – In the highlands near the capital of Peru, more than 3,000 metres above sea level, ageold water recovery techniques...
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2021: The Year that Matters for the Poorest People on the Planet
LONDON, Jun 01 (IPS) – This year is being described as pivotal for climate change. That’s not only because we’re reaching a point of...
NEW YORK, Jun 01 (IPS) – World leaders need to act for children and youth struggling to survive and thrive.A few weeks ago, I...
NEW DELHI, India, May 31 (IPS) – Four women, two motorbikes, 64 districts and a journey of a lifetime, this is the story of...
Why Investing in Women Is Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 01 (IPS) – Last year, the Asia-Pacific region recorded its worst economic performance in decades. With the pandemic far from over,...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 01 (IPS) – Pandemic relief measures in developing countries have been limited by modest resources, fear of financial market...
“Quitters are the real winners in the case of tobacco”, says the World Health Organization as part of a campaign to help smokers that...
Haiti: funding gap threatens the lives of nearly 86,000 children
In Haiti, the number of severely malnourished under-fives could more than double this year, UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday. Some could die if...
COVID danger has not passed, States must support pandemic treaty: Tedros
UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged all countries on Monday to support a pandemic preparedness treaty, warning that it would be a...
Is Sharing More than Water the Key to Transboundary Governance in the Meghna River Basin?
DHAKA, May 31 (IPS) – Kajol Miah is a rice farmer from the Bangladesh side of the Meghna River Basin. And in towns on...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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