Step up global plan for COVID-19 vaccines, UN chief says in message to World Health Assembly
The COVID-19 pandemic “must be a turning point”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, urging countries to take bold decisions now to both...
The UN chief on Monday, commended an award-winning Kenyan peacekeeper for her gender-mainstreaming work while serving in the restive Darfur region of Sudan. Read...
A Growing Shift in the Narrative about Climate Action
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) – A keen awareness about the intersection of our ecosystem and the “accelerating destabilisation of the climate” is...
A gene-based therapy partially restored a blind man’s vision
A new type of gene therapy that rewires nerve cells in the eye has given a blind man some limited vision. The 58-year-old man...
Why Latin America is the Middle East of Biofuel
QUITO, May 24 (IPS) – Latin America has lots of natural advantages for the coming energy transition. It already has the greenest power matrix...
Five Ways to Measure the Effects of a Crisis Like COVID-19 on Women
JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (IPS) – Social issues and crises tend to affect women more severely than men. This is why terms like “gender mainstreaming...
Why Our Best Defence Against Future Pandemics is Data
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 24 (IPS) – Although the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mission to discover its origins has proven inconclusive, the Covid-19 pandemic has...
The CDC’s changes to mask guidelines raised questions. Here are 6 answers
The most recent federal guidance on wearing masks offered a glimmer of hope that the pandemic’s end was inching closer, but it has also...
First Person: British UN peacekeeper stays on ‘A-game’ to keep Malians safe
A young soldier from the United Kingdom says he must stay on his “A-game” on patrol with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, to keep himself, colleagues and Malians safe in one of the most dangerous UN postings anywhere...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Sunday that hundreds of children and families in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Goma district are at risk...
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