Ukraine crisis: UN agencies support rising tide of refugees
The number of people fleeing the Russian onslaught in Ukraine surpassed 874,000 as of Wednesday morning New York time, data from the UN refugee...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 02 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8.The devastating effects...
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. This will be...
Young Argentine Women Forge a Future in Cooperative Factory
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 02 (IPS) – “We started making shampoos and soaps in the kitchen of a friend’s house in 2017. We were five...
Its Time to Step up for Street Vendors Rights
MUMBAI, India, Mar 02 (IPS) – In the second week of January 2022, Purushottam—locally known as Prashant—a street vendor in central Delhi’s Connaught Place...
With One Million Species Endangered, the Web of Life Is at Risk of Extinction
MADRID, Mar 02 (IPS) – These are not by any means just mere figures. It is about the risk of extinction of the whole...
Fecal transplant pills helped some peanut allergy sufferers in a small trial
PHOENIX — Pills loaded with bacteria from other people’s poop might help adults who are highly allergic to peanuts safely eat the nuts in...
Marie Maynard Daly was a trailblazing biochemist, but her full story may be lost
Marie Maynard Daly is known as the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, earned in 1947 from Columbia University. It’s...
‘Fresh Banana Leaves’ shows how Western conservation has harmed Indigenous people
Fresh Banana LeavesJessica HernandezNorth Atlantic Books, $17.95 During the civil war in El Salvador that began in the 1970s, an injured Victor Hernandez hid...
Safe Space to Express, Share and Grow
New York, Mar 02 (IPS) – Manjo Sheik, a 25-year-old entrepreneur from India, says women have multiple obstacles to overcome. Read the full story,...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter 
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo 
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes