Tobacco use continues to fall
The number of tobacco users continues to decrease globally, going from 1.32 billion in 2015 to 1.30 billion last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said onTuesday. Read the full story, “Tobacco use continues to fall”, on...
What Governments Should Learn from The Climate Activists
Nov 15 (IPS) – Shantha Rau Barriga is the disability rights director and the lead on Strategy Development at Human Rights Watch“Nothing about us without...
Inequity in Funding: Africa’s Agripreneurs Pay a High Price for Start Up Finance
Nov 15 (IPS) – Africa has pinned its hopes on agriculture for the creation of jobs and the resulting reduction of poverty. But its...
Growing Digital Divide Threatens Recovery from Covid-19
LONDON, Nov 15 (IPS) – A growing digital divide is emerging as a major threat to a robust recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, according...
Scientists are racing to save the Last Ice Area, an Arctic Noah’s Ark
It started with polar bears. In 2012, polar bear DNA revealed that the iconic species had faced extinction before, likely during a warm period...
A new particle accelerator aims to unlock secrets of bizarre atomic nuclei
Inscribed on an Italian family’s 15th century coat of arms and decorating an ancient Japanese shrine, the Borromean rings are symbolically potent. Remove one...
Asian Staffers at UN Launch Network to Protect Rights & Fight Racism
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (IPS) – The United Nations, which consists of 193 member states, has long been accused of discrimination against staffers who...
In post-quake Haiti, rebuilding lives and welcoming new ones
Three months after a devastating earthquake struck the south-west of Haiti, a hospital that was largely destroyed has continued to give mothers and their...
Glasgow Summit Ends Amidst Climate of Disappointment
GLASGOW, Nov 14 (IPS) – Developing countries will surely remember the Glasgow climate summit, the most important since 2015, as a fiasco that left...
Climate action can be the driver for a green and equitable future for all, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said at the TED Countdown Summit, urging people everywhere to demand that leaders deliver...
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza