For Pakistan Rising Fistula Cases Make SDG 3 Goal Elusive
KARACHI, Pakistan, October 2 (IPS) – “You’re living a life drained of joy,” is how Shehnaz Sher Ali describes her “perpetually wet and stinky”...
Renewables, Farmer Aggregation Offer Solutions to Africa’s Post-Harvest Losses
KIGALI, October 2 (IPS) – Post-harvest losses, particularly in rural areas, threaten the gains Africa is making in agricultural production and export capacity. Read...
Are hypernovas real?
Uneven supernova explosions may explain the unusual mix of elements in Milky Way stars once thought to be evidence of hypernovas.
If We Can Start an Epoch, We Can Start a Farming Revolution
NEW YORK, October 2 (IPS) – In November 1952, the United States detonated the world’s first thermonuclear device at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall...
The Ingenuity Trap
DOHA, Qatar, October 2 (IPS) – In the 21st century, getting a pencil into Gaza became international news. In January, after more than two...
SUDAN: ‘It’s Shocking to Be Forced into Silence Simply Because You Are a Refugee’
CIVICUS discusses life as a refugee with an exiled Sudanese civil society activist who has asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. Read the...
‘Women are not victims’: Türk calls for women to be at the heart of peace and security
Women must be at the centre of efforts to prevent conflict and build lasting peace, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said...
World News in Brief: Marshall Islands nuclear legacy, FlyDubai attack condemned, Ukraine update, breast cancer treatment expanded in West Bank
The enduring radioactive legacy of US nuclear bomb testing in the Marshall Islands took centre stage at the Human Rights Council on Thursday. Read...
No more execution attempts on Christa Pike: UN rights chief
The UN human rights chief and nine independent rights experts on Thursday called on authorities in Tennessee not to pursue any further attempts to...
UN Member States weigh latest Security Council veto, this time on Iran
The General Assembly met on Thursday to examine the Security Council’s latest veto, cast by China and Russia over a United States-backed sanctions panel...
Earwax’s surprisingly slippery but sticky properties deters insects 
Food contains thousands of overlooked chemicals. This physicist is mapping them 
World News in Brief: Children killed in Myanmar strike, new violence flares in Mozambique, an Internet affordability milestone 
Married off at 14: In Yemen’s war, women and girls suffer ‘devastating consequences’