Technology Helps Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
MADRID, Aug 03 (IPS) – Human beings have proved to be capable of producing innumerable practical inventions while much too often making the worst...
An hour after pigs’ deaths, an artificial system restored cellular life
Call it cellular life support for dead pigs. A complex web of pumps, sensors and artificial fluid can move oxygen, nutrients and drugs into...
Spinal stimulation gives some people with paralysis more freedom
By his count, Michel Roccati is on his third life, at least. In the first, he was a fit young man riding his motorcycle...
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) denounced on Tuesday the hanging of two inmates in Changi Prison, located in the eastern part of Singapore....
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) – A spike in state-sanctioned executions worldwide – including in Iran, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and more recently Myanmar –...
Two of the largest reservoirs in the United States are at dangerously low levels due to the climate crisis and overconsumption of water, which...
Countries need to work more together to stop the rapidly spreading outbreak of monkeypox, “no matter the nationality, skin colour or religion of the...
Horn of Africa faces most ‘catastrophic’ food insecurity in decades, warns WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the...
Three UN-appointed independent human rights experts returned from Ethiopia on Tuesday after working to negotiate access to areas important for investigations. Read the full story,...
The landmark truce in Yemen, which has been holding since April, has been renewed for an additional two months through 2 October, UN Special...
Occupied West Bank: Settler siege of Palestinians marks a new low 
Security Council LIVE: Escalating attacks threaten peace in Yemen 
The glue that binds a proton may be key to its identity 
African Rights Advocates Coordinate Response to Family Law Backlash