After receiving reports of heart inflammation cases due to myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with COVID-19 Pfizer and Moderna shots, World Health Organization (WHO)...
Bridging the Gap and Crossing the Bridge
NEW YORK, Jul 09 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot WaitIt may be a challenge, but it is also an absolute necessity:...
A Film Challenging Religious Norms
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 09 (IPS) – When Turkish- Norwegian writer and filmmaker Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen heard about Seyran Ates’ mixed gender mosque in...
50 years ago, scientists found a virus lurking in human cancer cells
A virus from human cancer — Science News, July 10, 1971 [Researchers] cultured and isolated the … virus from tissue of a child patient...
The gap in parenting time between middle- and working-class moms has shrunk
Time is a finite resource. So it’s not entirely surprising that after decades of ramping up time spent on parenting, some well-educated mothers appear...
Why planting tons of trees isn’t enough to solve climate change
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to climate change. When it...
Q&A: UN Food Systems Summit Opportunity for the World to Unite on Healthy, Fair & Sustainable Food Systems
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 09 (IPS) – Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended every sphere of life, the world was lagging on a goal to end...
The New Social Contract: an Opportunity for Deliberative Participation
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 09 (IPS) – These days there hasn’t been certainly a shortage of reports portraying the decline of liberal democracy around the...
Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to...
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health,...
Nuclear Victims’ Experiences Must Be at the Heart of Global Efforts for Assistance and Remediation 
LIECHTENSTEIN: ‘We Have One of the Strictest Abortion Bans in Europe’ 
New reservoir offers innovative solution to South Sudan cattle beef 
‘Advance safety for all’: International police cooperation helps tackle cross-border crime