The UN’s top rights official urged the United Kingdom on Friday to reconsider proposed changes to its border policy, warning that suggested reforms would...
Why We Must Remember Afghanistan
KABUL, Mar 17 (IPS) – While all eyes are on Ukraine, Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis has been forgotten. But only with international aid can Afghans...
Education Cannot Wait Secures Future of Children in CAR Conflict Zones
Bangui, Central African Republic, Mar 17 (IPS) – Nine-year-old Marguerite Doumkel sits among other children in a classroom in Paoua, a sub-prefecture of Ouham...
Ethanol Not Enough to Heal Sugarcanes Environmental Legacy in Colombia
BOGOTA, Mar 17 (IPS) – As a visitor drives across the plains of the department of Valle del Cauca in southwestern Colombia, green carpets...
Pandemic Pushes SDGs Further out of Reach of Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 17 (IPS) – 2022 marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while an end to the pandemic is in...
How a scientist-artist transformed our view of the brain
The Brain in Search of ItselfBenjamin EhrlichFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal is known as the father of modern...
Even the sea has light pollution. These new maps show its extent
The first global atlas of ocean light pollution shows that large swaths of the sea are squinting in the glare of humans’ artificial lights...
Ancient seafarers built the Mediterranean’s largest known sacred pool
On a tiny island off Sicily’s west coast, a huge pool long ago displayed the star-studded reflections of the gods. Scientists have long thought...
Russia must immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Wednesday, in The Hague. Read the...
Misinformation that Omicron is ‘the last COVID-19 variant’ fuelling uptick worldwide: WHO
A combination of factors, including misinformation that the pandemic is over, the lifting of mask mandates, ending physical distancing – and a more transmissible...
‘Make or bake time’: Guterres urges climate justice pact as leaders gather at COP31 
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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026