Pandemic Hit Domestic Workers Especially Hard in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 24 (IPS) – “Woman, poor, black and illiterate” – most domestic workers suffer quadruple discrimination in Brazil, which made them...
The COVID-19 pandemic is not an on-off switch
During the winter surge of COVID-19, it felt like the coronavirus was everywhere. Colder weather pushed people inside where the virus can linger in...
Amid reports on Thursday that people were fleeing en masse from the Ukrainian capital of Kiev following Russia’s so-called “special military operation,” UN humanitarians warned of...
The United Nations has condemned the killing of eight polio vaccination workers in four locations in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the first such attacks...
Decapitating Terrorist Organisations Won’t End Terror
AMMAN, Jordan, Feb 24 (IPS) – Killing terrorist organisations’ leaders is no effective way of fighting terrorism — as it’s political and economic crises...
Womens Voices Raised Against Hate in India
Lucknow, Feb 24 (IPS) – More and more women from different walks of life and corners of the world are raising their voices against...
Now that computers connect us all, for better and worse, what’s next?
This article was written, edited and designed on laptop computers. Such foldable, transportable devices would have astounded computer scientists just a few decades ago,...
Higher incomes contribute more to environmental degradation than population growth, a report by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has revealed. ...
“President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance,” Secretary-General António Guterres urged Wednesday evening at the start of an emergency...
At dedicated Assembly session on Ukraine, UN chief calls for ‘restraint, reason and de-escalation’
The world is facing “a moment of peril,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a General Assembly session on Wednesday dedicated to the temporarily occupied...
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