UN Plea to Save Afghanistan from Full-Blown Humanitarian Crisis
Geneva, Jan 11 (IPS) – UN agencies have asked for a record USD 4.4 billion in aid for Afghanistan to avert a full-blown humanitarian...
Omicron forces us to rethink COVID-19 testing and treatments
New year, new variant. As 2022 gets under way, omicron, a fast-moving version of the virus that causes COVID-19, is well into its march...
The use of explosives that lie dormant, particularly in populated areas, is “a persistent and growing threat to children and their families”, the UN...
Afro-descendants in Costa Rica: A Movement for Justice & Equity
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, Jan 11 (IPS) – Jan André is a cheerful and outgoing young man, a superb dancer, and aspiring schoolteacher. Indeed,...
Climate change communication should focus less on specific numbers
What’s in a number? The goals of the 2021 United Nations’ climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, called for nations to keep a warming limit...
Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers takes a hit
An amateur archaeologist exploring a dried-out, ancient stream channel called Blackwater Draw near Clovis, New Mexico, made a startling discovery in 1929. He came...
Afghanistan: UN launches largest single country aid appeal ever
The UN and partners launched a more than $5 billion funding appeal for Afghanistan on Tuesday, in the hope of shoring up collapsing basic...
Teams from UN migration agency IOM were mobilized on Sunday after fire swept through a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, home to thousands...
UN top envoy: Resurgence of coups d’état, consequence of being ‘completely out of step’
After a recent wave of attempts and coups d’état in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Guinea, The UN Special Representative for the region told the Security Council on Monday this resurgence, particularly in...
A group of independent human rights experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council has condemned the continued operation of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility...
Stone Age children left fingerprints on ancient art projects 
From Nuclear Weapons to Artificial Intelligence, a New Test of Humanity’s Restraint 
FRANCE: ‘The Government Should Learn to Respect Its People, Listen to Them and Consult Them’ 
COP31: Why Africa Must Rethink Nuclear Energy