Humanitarian aid warehouses come under attack in Ukraine
Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine has left civilians vulnerable to repeated deadly attacks and humanitarian workers and key facilities being targeted and destroyed....
The Earth Is Burning — And We Are Still Choosing to Let It
VICTORIA, Seychelles, August 10 (IPS) – I have spent my life on an island. From the granite hills of Mahé, one can watch the...
Asia’s Energy Progress Is Great, But Must Pick Up Pace
MELBOURNE, Australia, August 10 (IPS) – In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the...
Living Longer at Age 80
PORTLAND, USA, August 10 (IPS) – Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before. These gains in longevity...
Sad or afraid? Dogs may be able to read your face
A new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may be able to distinguish between certain negative human emotions just by looking at people’s faces.
Science backs calls for limiting screens in schools
School device use links with lower test scores and distractions abound. But reversing the entrenched pandemic pivot to screens will be hard.
Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusing to let war stop their education
Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum to Madani, then again...
Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing
ROME, August 10 (IPS) – World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser...
INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party Brings Together Everyone Who Has Been Neglected for Years’
CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in Delhi. Read...
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
FREETOWN, August 10 (IPS) – Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic...
UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns 
Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister 
‘Rising seas are sinking futures’ 
Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’