Independent UN human rights experts on Friday urged Canadian authorities and the Holy See of the Catholic Church to conduct prompt “full-fledged investigations” into...
Upholding human rights online must be part of global efforts to recover better following the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of UN independent experts said...
The Pandemic Should Not Leave Developing Countries Without a Voice (or a Vote)
ROME, Jun 04 (IPS) – Requiring in-person voting to elect the governing bodies of UN agencies may exclude the countries most affected by travel...
BONN, Jun 04 (IPS) – The following article is part of a series to commemorate World Environment Day June 5You want to breathe fresh...
Infrastructure Expands in Brazil Despite Crises
RÃ�O DE JANEIRO, Jun 04 (IPS) – Health, fiscal, environmental and political crises have not prevented Brazil from attracting private capital to expand infrastructure,...
Nuclear clocks could outdo atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces
Nuclear clocks could be the GOAT: Greatest of all timepieces. If physicists can build them, nuclear clocks would be a brand-new type of clock,...
After 40 years of AIDS, here’s why we still don’t have an HIV vaccine
Forty years ago, researchers described the mysterious cases of five gay men who had fallen ill with a pneumonia caused by the bacteria Pneumocystis...
Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers...
DHAKA and NEW YORK, Jun 04 (IPS) – Every two minutes, a girl or woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications, including unsafe abortions....
How science museums reinvented themselves to survive the pandemic
On January 30, 2020, Science Gallery Dublin assembled a small group of experts to discuss a strange new disease that had recently emerged in...
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes 
‘Warned but not protected’: Four in ten adults in England ignore heat alerts 
Meth trafficking across Middle East becoming more advanced, UNODC warns