New guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO), published on Thursday, calls for providing mental health care that respects human rights and focuses on...
UN agencies scale-up response to address looming famine ‘catastrophe’ in Tigray
The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) appealed on Thursday for immediate access to deliver lifesaving assistance to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where ongoing...
Security Council urged to bring multilateralism ‘alive’, to tackle serious global challenges
Rules-based multilateralism is not a simple or appealing phrase, a top European Union (EU) official told the Security Council on Thursday, “but our job...
Global Progress Against Child Labour ‘Ground to a Halt’ – UN Report
NEW DEHLI, Jun 10 (IPS) – Malleshwar Rao, 27, spent his early years as a child labourer in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad....
Nine in 10 African nations look set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10 per cent of their populations against COVID-19, the World...
Cells cram DNA into the nucleus in two distinct ways
There are only so many ways to cram DNA into a cell’s nucleus, a study suggests. A cell’s complete genetic blueprint, or genome, is...
Physicists dream big with an idea for a particle collider on the moon
If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated...
Child labour figure rises to 160 million, as COVID puts many more at risk
For the first time in two decades, the number of children being put to work has risen – to 160 million worldwide, representing an increase...
A football club in the west of England has been recognized by the United Nations for its leading role in setting goals to tackle...
From Climate Change to Covid, Are We Ready to Deal with Disasters?
PARIS, Jun 10 (IPS) – In the last 20 years, disasters affected over 4 billion people. At global level we witness on average one...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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