Five UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Tuesday for Türkiye to stop using counter-terrorism legislation to intimidate human rights defenders and to immediately release...
In a report issued on Tuesday, UN human rights experts outline how discrimination affects black boys and girls worldwide to the extent that they...
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk on Tuesday appealed for Egypt to free a prominent blogger and activist whose life is in imminent...
UN ramps up humanitarian appeal for life-saving assistance to 3.4 million Sri Lankans
Amidst Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis since independence, the UN on Tuesday revised its joint Humanitarian Needs and Priorities (HNP) Plan, appealing for more...
Progress on Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 08 (IPS) – The news in many parts of the world is that tuberculosis (TB) is reclaiming the title of the world’s...
COP27: ‘Zero tolerance for greenwashing’, Guterres says as new report cracks down on empty net-zero pledges
While a growing number of governments and non-State actors are pledging to be carbon-free, the criteria for net-zero commitments can have loopholes wide enough...
Over 27 million children at risk from devastating record-setting floods
Overwhelming flooding has affected at least 27.7 million children across 27 countries worldwide, with the number of children affected by flooding in Chad, Gambia,...
Younger Generation Needed in Efforts to Change the Leprosy Perceptions, Says Miss World Brazil
Nairobi, Nov 08 (IPS) – Deep-rooted discrimination against persons affected by leprosy or Hansen’s disease has marginalized individuals and communities. As social pariahs, opportunities...
World Population after 8,000,000,000
PORTLAND, USA, Nov 08 (IPS) – Contrary to the often-cited hype and nonsense of some celebrities reported in the news media, the world’s population...
Here’s how mysterious last-resort antibiotics kill bacteria
To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic from Medusa’s playbook: petrification. New high-resolution microscope images show that a class of antibiotics called...
Frankenstein in Charge: Netanyahu Rejects Trump’s Gaza Plan 
Malawi Bets on Battery Storage to Climate-Proof Its Fragile Power Grid 
UN Special Rapporteur Urges the Protection of Children’s Rights Amid Deepening Conflict and Digital Threats 
Nicaragua: End of the Electoral Illusion