KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 22 (IPS) – In an opinion piece published in PassBlue on 15 March 2022, historian Stephen Schlesinger asked, “Where is the...
Zimbabwe Crackdown on NGOs Could Impact Election Observation
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Mar 22 (IPS) – Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with a controversial bill that critics say seeks to criminalise the operations of nongovernmental...
Water & Sanitation Crisis Escalates as Yemenis Mark World Water Day
IBB Governorate, Yemen, Mar 22 (IPS) – As Yemen enters its 8th year of an escalating conflict, 21.7 million of my fellow Yemenis are...
How gene therapy overcame high-profile failures
Gene therapy pioneer Richard Jude Samulski remembers when he avoided the words “gene therapy.” In the mid-2000s, he told people he worked on “biological...
How the way we’re taught to round numbers in school falls short
Imagine needing to estimate the total cost of the items in your grocery basket to decide whether to put something back. So you round...
The universe’s background starlight is twice as bright as expected
Even when you remove the bright stars, the glowing dust and other nearby points of light from the inky, dark sky, a background glow...
New UN report looks underfoot, to solve global water crises
While groundwater accounts for 99 per cent of all running freshwater on Earth, it is often undervalued, mismanaged, and overexploited, according to a report...
The UN’s top rights official said on Monday that amidst a “profound crisis” facing access to basic human rights in Myanmar following the coup in...
First Person: Witnessing the pain of Ukraine refugees wrenched apart
The UN has helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees to cross into Poland and other neighbouring countries. Chris Melzer, spokesperson for the UN...
South Sudan: ‘hellish existence’ for women and girls, new UN report reveals
Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South...
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026