NEW DELHI, India, May 31 (IPS) – Four women, two motorbikes, 64 districts and a journey of a lifetime, this is the story of...
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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...
First Person: Learning a recipe for freedom in Nigeria
When Nigerian Blessing Ojukwu became pregnant after she was raped, her family disowned her. She was forced to live with her abuser, who continued to attack...
Slower Population Growth: The Goods and the Bads
NEW YORK, May 31 (IPS) – Results from the 2020 population censuses in the United States and China recently made headlines. But rather than...
STOCKHOLM / ROME, May 31 (IPS) – In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich...
Ukraine: Attacks on education threaten an entire generation, UNICEF warns 
Back to school in Haiti: ‘Madame, can you stop what the gangs are doing to us?’ 
Ebola responders grapple with widening outbreak in DR Congo 
Escalating conflict drives new displacement in Yemen