Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: Bachelet
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of...
Palm Oil for Biodiesel in the Amazon: Sustainable Fuel or Deforestation Risk?
MANAUS, Brazil, Apr 04 (IPS) – Oil palm, known as dendezeiro in Brazil, can produce up to ten times more vegetable oil per hectare...
LONDON, Apr 04 (IPS) – With the economy in freefall and basics such as food and fuel in dangerously short supply, there is mounting...
Although more than 160 States have signed a landmark convention on banning landmines, more action is still needed to protect people from these “abhorrent...
UN climate report: We’re on fast track to disaster, warns Guterres
A new flagship UN report on climate change out Monday indicating that harmful carbon emissions from 2010-2019 have never been higher in human history,...
School Feeding Is Now the Worlds Largest Social Safety Net
KATHMANDU, Apr 04 (IPS) – When Canada and Nepal are used in the same sentence it’s usually because the former is supporting development efforts...
Youth Icon’s Fight for Rights Among India’s Destitute
Lucknow, India, Apr 04 (IPS) – Pooja Shukla, 25, a socialist candidate, has lost her maiden elections to the provincial parliament in Uttar Pradesh...
Indian Agriculture Towards 2030
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr 04 (IPS) – India began its journey as an independent nation in 1947 with fresh memory of the Bengal Famine of...
We can do better than what was ‘normal’ before the pandemic
It’s a weird time in the pandemic. COVID-19 cases are once again climbing in some parts of the United States, but still falling from...
Binary stars keep masquerading as black holes
As astronomy datasets grow larger, scientists are scouring them for black holes, hoping to better understand the exotic objects. But the drive to find...
UN aims to raise nearly $50 million for Nepal flood response 
West Bank: UN rights report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps 
UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small 
Repeated attacks on humanitarian warehouses put vital medical aid at risk in Ukraine: WHO