United Nations independent human rights experts on Tuesday voiced serious concerns over recent appointment of new members to Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission, which...
UN chief ‘realistic’ at start of fresh bid to resolve Cyprus stalemate
A fresh United Nations-led bid to seek to resolve decades of tensions in Cyprus began in Geneva on Tuesday, with Secretary-General António Guterres “realistic” about the...
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 27 (IPS) – May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. This feature is part of a series highlighting the current...
SANTIAGO, Apr 27 (IPS) – Standing on Punta Ventanilla, Carlos Vegas, 65, looks across at the industrial park which has been there most of...
COVID-19 can affect the brain. New clues hint at how
For more than a year now, scientists have been racing to understand how the mysterious new virus that causes COVID-19 damages not only our...
Transparency Offers Pathway to a More Sustainable Earth
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The rights of indigenous people to make decisions about their cultural heritage and traditional way of life is being recognized in a United Nations...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 27 (IPS) – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control....
Q&A: Drawing Attention to the Crisis in the DRCs Education Sector
GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 27 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central...
In his message for Chernobyl International Remembrance Day on Monday, the UN chief reminded that “disasters know no borders”. Read the full story, “‘Disasters...
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