Rohingya Camps: Children in Frontline of Food Rationing Crisis
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, September 28 (IPS) – For Mohammed Dullah, recent cuts in UN food rations for Rohingya and other refugees in Bangladesh are...
Pension Peril Among Populations
PORTLAND, USA, September 28 (IPS) – Dozens of government-funded pension programs providing benefits to hundreds of millions of men and women face growing fiscal...
India Still Needs to Address Harmful Dark Skin Stereotypes
NEW DEHLI, September 28 (IPS) – As a young girl, Sarada Murlidharan cringed at the thought of going to school. It was not the...
Magnetism may have helped kick-start our solar system
Ancient meteorites reveal a powerful magnetic field that may have helped feed the growing sun.
Peru’s penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse.
Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding out hope that their numbers...
The Dollar-Gold Standard’s Lingering Demise
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, September 28 (IPS) – The 1944 Bretton Woods (BW) conference accepted the US demand to use the dollar to settle international...
BRAZIL: ‘Resistance Is Intergenerational, and Art Is How Energy Gets Renewed’
 : CIVICUS discusses the role of art in climate and rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Wheeler, executive director and co-founder of...
The Global Leaders Network Pushes to Protect Women’s and Children’s Health
UNITED NATIONS, September 28 (IPS) – In the wake of the largest decline in global health financing on record, the Global Leaders Network (GLN)...
The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 5
From artificial intelligence to migration, some of the forces reshaping the twenty-first century took centre stage at the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Leaders...
Lavrov issues call for new Eurasian ‘security architecture’
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, accused Western countries of destabilising the world through “force and double standards” in his address to the UN General...
A new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protecting 
New Ocean Report Warns of Rising Seas, Ocean Heat and Acidification 
UNGA81: UN Leaders Calls for Faster Action on Pandemic Preparedness 
A Stronger Future for Coffee Starts Where It Is Grown