UN independent human rights experts have deplored the recent violent crackdown on civil society in Iran, calling on Wednesday for independent investigations into excessive...
Afghanistan facing ‘the darkest moments’ in a generation
The Afghanistan people are experiencing some of “the darkest moments” in a generation the UN human rights chief told Human Rights Council on Wednesday....
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned a weekend attack in Burkina Faso that left dozens of civilians dead and displaced scores more, his Spokesperson...
Researchers Strive for Technological Innovations to Achieve Food Security in Africa
KIGALI, Jun 15 (IPS) – A few years ago, after coming up with a project of launching the first-ever unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in...
Ending Hunger in America: Heres What the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Should Do to Be Inclusive
URBANA, Illinois, USA, Jun 15 (IPS) – This September, the White House will convene a conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Leading up to...
Here’s why pumpkin toadlets are such clumsy jumpers
Some frogs just can’t stick the landing. After launching into a leap, pumpkin toadlets careen through the air as if flung from a toddler’s...
UN’s Bachelet concerned over Ukraine orphans ‘deported’ to Russia for adoption
The UN’s top rights official expressed her concern on Wednesday at reports that Ukrainian children have been “forcibly deported” from the country’s embattled eastern regions, and...
Assisting At-Risk Youth Becomes Lifes Work for Trafficking Survivor
Stanford, Jun 15 (IPS) – Arien Pauls-Garcia’s journey to working with at-risk youth in California was long and dangerous and started at 19 when...
Ancient bacterial DNA hints Europe’s Black Death started in Central Asia
Although best known as a plague that killed millions of Europeans from 1346 to 1353, the Black Death originated about a decade earlier in...
Butterflies may lose their ‘tails’ like lizards
On some butterfly wings, “tails” may be more than just elegant adornments. They’re survival tools too, a study suggests. The tails seem to attract...
Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone 
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil 
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies 
Colombia quake: In Cali’s ruins, an ‘overwhelming sense of humanity’