NEW YORK, Oct 11 (IPS) – This year’s International Day of the Girl theme, Digital Generation, Our Generation, celebrates the potential of digital technologies...
Discussing gender equality in Jordan can lead to difficult conversations, as Balqees Shahin, a volunteer for the UN Women gender equality campaign HeforShe, has...
BEIJING, Oct 11 (IPS) – China was one of the architects of the United Nations and was the first signatory of the UN Charter...
Day of the Girl Child: A Digital Generation Where Every Girl Counts
NEW YORK, Oct 11 (IPS) – The theme of this year’s annual International Day of the Girl Child, on October 11, “Digital generation. Our...
The earliest evidence of tobacco use dates to over 12,000 years ago
Ancient North Americans started using tobacco around 12,500 to 12,000 years ago, roughly 9,000 years before the oldest indications that they smoked the plant...
UN Chief, in an Unprecedented War of Words, Battles it out with a Member State
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 11 (IPS) – A growing diplomatic battle is being played out at the United Nations between Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and one...
Girlpower from Tajikistan to Costa Rica, helps narrow gender gap online
A marked global gender gap in terms of internet use continues to grow, but from Syria to Costa Rica, girls are increasingly pushing back to try and narrow the gap. Read...
Food Hero: Cultivating women farmers in Georgia
A farmer in the central European country, Georgia, has been sharing her lifetime of knowledge with other women farmers in the region, saying that...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on mental health worldwide, and action must be taken to “redress the glaring inequalities exposed by the pandemic”,...
Pink flamingos return to Kazakhstan’s capital in time for World Migratory Bird Day
Following five years of absence, pink flamingos have been flocking back to Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan, much to the delight of residents who have flooded...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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