A culture of “safety, friends and food” at school has been replaced by “anxiety, violence, and teenage pregnancy”, with remote learning out of reach...
The UN independent expert on the human rights situation in Myanmar on Tuesday called for a “COVID ceasefire” for the country, as infections and deaths soar even as the military...
How some lizards breathe underwater
Some anole lizards have a newfound superpower: They can breathe underwater by trapping air in a bubble on their snouts. What’s more, these reptiles...
Why it’s still so hard to find treatments for early COVID-19
More than a year and a half into the pandemic, researchers are beginning to get a handle on how the coronavirus makes people sick...
Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries Pandemic Recovery Needs
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 27 (IPS) – Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs are only likely to grow...
ROME and AMSTERDAM, Jul 27 (IPS) – There is nothing honourable about murder. And murdering someone of your own family, your own child –...
Together, we must tackle growing hunger, urges Guterres
Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per...
The world is waking up to the importance of mangroves, a senior UN official said on Monday, underscoring the need for everyone to support restoration...
Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide. Read...
Landmark elections in the Occupied Palestinian territory must be rescheduled soon and include East Jerusalem, three UN independent human rights experts said in a...
As El Niño Returns, East Africa’s Urban Poor Brace for Heavy Rains 
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’