Modern Slavery: How Consumers Can Make a Difference
Jul 04 (IPS) – Few people want to buy products that involve the exploitation or enslavement of the workers who make them – but...
First Person: The Somali refugees planting a new life in the United States
After spending years living in UN-supported camps in Kenya, some 220 former refugees from Somalia now work as farmers in the US state of...
400,000 in Tigray cross ‘threshold into famine’, with nearly 2 million on the brink, Security Council told
Senior UN officials appealed on Friday for immediate and unrestricted humanitarian access to Tigray – and for an end to deadly attacks on aid workers –...
FROM THE FIELD: 4.4 million Nigerians facing ‘catastrophic food conditions’
Some 4.4 million people in Nigeria are facing what the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, is describing as “catastrophic food conditions”. Read the full story,...
First Person: ‘Syrians still have ambition and hope’
As a witness to the impacts of Syria’s internal conflict over the last decade, Bassel Al-Madani, a young engineer and former volunteer with the...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has resumed operations in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, after fighting halted the emergency response last week, although the agency warned...
COVID-19 Delta variant detected in 98 countries, continues to evolve and mutate, warns WHO
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged leaders to push back against daunting new COVID surges through increased vaccination efforts...
With the chief of the UN’s gender empowerment agency declaring that women are still “sitting in the corridors when men are inside at the table negotiating peace”, the historic Generation Equality Forum in Paris concluded on Friday with new commitments designed to address that, and...
Families Search for Loved Ones Gone Missing in Post-War El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 02 (IPS) – The pain that María Estela Guevara feels over the disappearance of her niece Wendy Martínez remains as intense...
Dalit and Muslim Indian Women Leading Change in South Sudan
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 02 (IPS) – Two Indian women, one Muslim and the other Dalit (former untouchables), separated by culture and geography, have...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now