Should the 2021 Climate Summit in Glasgow Still Take Place?
NEW YORK, Apr 01 (IPS) – With uncertainties over face-to-face meetings resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors consider the case for postponing the...
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Conserving Tigers, Elephants and Bison, One LPG Stove at a Time
HYDERBAD, India, Apr 01 (IPS) – As the sun sets over the canopy of Albizia amara trees, a thin blanket of fog begins to...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 01 (IPS) – Illicit financial flows (IFFs) hurt all countries, both developed and developing. But poor countries suffer relatively...
Generation Equality: Womens Leadership as a Catalyst for Change, Say 49 UN Women Envoys
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 01 (IPS) – This article has been co-authored and signed by 49 UN women Ambassadors*March, women’s history month, closes with the...
Recipes with a Taste of Sustainable Development on the Coast of El Salvador
SAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador, Mar 31 (IPS) – Salvadoran villager Maria Luz Rodriguez placed the cheese on top of the lasagna she...
Farming-Specific Loans Help Tanzania’s Smallholders Increase Productivity
MADABA/MAFINGA, Tanzania, Mar 31 (IPS) – Small agricultural loans, disbursed through mobile phones and targeting specific farming activities at different phases of production, have...
GENEVA, Mar 31 (IPS) – The writer is with Geneva Solutions, a non-profit journalistic platform dedicated to International Geneva.The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Hurricane...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 30 (IPS) – The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be...
Developing Countries COVID-19 Debt Crisis Could Put 2030 Agenda & Paris Agreement Completely Out of Reach
BONN, Germany, Mar 30 (IPS) – The inability of developing nations to spend on post COVID-19 recovery and resilience has placed the world on...
In Syria, a Decade of Death, Destruction, Displacement, Disease, Dread & Despair
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 30 (IPS) – The conflict in Syria is now ten years old. A decade of death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and...
Motor neurons don’t just move muscles. They may direct that motion too 
ECUADOR: ‘Criminalisation Serves as a Deterrent, Seeking to Discipline Others’ 
Breaking the silence over sexual violence against men and boys in war 
AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights