More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a senior official with the regional arm...
Mental Health Achievements in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 27 (IPS) – Mental health is a state of well-being when both your body and your mind are in balance, and...
Climate Crisis Fuels Exodus to Mexico, Both Waystation and Destination
MEXICO CITY, Oct 27 2021 (IPS) – In September, 31-year-old Yesenia decided to leave her home on the outskirts of the northern Honduran city...
Education Cannot Wait Urges Urgent Action for World’s Biggest Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (IPS) – Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif urged the world to support their efforts to provide education to children...
Ancient human visitors complicate the Falkland Islands wolf’s origin story
The enigmatic, now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf had human visitors on the remote archipelago up to 1,070 years ago. The find suggests that Indigenous people...
Epidemics have happened before and they’ll happen again. What will we remember?
The emergency hospital, a partially demolished building hastily enclosed with wooden partitions, was about to open. It was the fall of 1918 in Philadelphia,...
Countries must unite and act urgently to secure stability in Afghanistan, and a better future for its people, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message on Wednesday to a...
The jobs recovery is stalled worldwide and disparities between advanced and developing economies threaten the whole global economy, warned the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Pandemic impact on jobs,...
Another Unenviable Annual Record for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
DOMINICA, Oct 27 (IPS) – A few days before the international community gathers for COP26, widely considered the most important climate conference since the...
Illegal Immigration: A 21st Century Crisis
PORTLAND, USA, Oct 27 (IPS) – Illegal immigration is a 21st century crisis that will only worsen with the consequences of climate change. Read...
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