UN fund reports ‘solid results’ empowering girls and boys in crises with opportunity of quality education
On Tuesday, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, issued its Annual Results Report, which...
African Health Ministers announce ‘pivotal’ new strategy to combat communicable diseases
With the burden of cardiovascular disease, mental and neurological disorders and diabetes rising in the region, African health ministers on Tuesday, endorsed a new...
Darfur: Trial of Janjaweed leader must not be ‘a false dawn’ for justice, Security Council hears
The trial of senior Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb – the first prosecution to get underway at the request of the UN Security Council –...
Keeping the Promise of Education for Crisis-Impacted Children and Adolescents
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) – Syrian refugee children are among the most disadvantaged in Iraq. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 53 percent...
Funding Urgently Needed for Children’s Education in Conflict Areas—ECW Director
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) issued a wake-up call for the global community to support...
Sleep deprivation may make people less generous
Lack of sleep has been linked to heart disease, poor mood and loneliness (SN: 11/15/16). Being tired could also make us less generous, researchers...
Ebola has resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following confirmation of a case in the restive eastern province of North Kivu,...
Yezidis in Armenia: From Reincarnation to Exodus
ARDASHAR, Armenia, Aug 23 (IPS) – There are those cows watching the fight in the mud of rusty Soviet cars; there are those tethered...
The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revamped our view of the solar system
On a Hawaiian mountaintop in the summer of 1992, a pair of scientists spotted a pinprick of light inching through the constellation Pisces. That...
Africa drought: Some children just ‘one disease away from catastrophe’ UNICEF warns
On Tuesday, UN Children’s Fund UNICEF warned that children in the Horn of Africa and the vast Sahel region “could die in devastating numbers”...
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