Address inequalities to end AIDS by 2030, UN chief says in new report
Inequalities in addressing AIDS threaten global efforts to stamp out the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned...
Europe: COVID must spark rethink to prioritize ‘human lives’ over economic policies
The devastating impact of COVID-19 serves as a stark reminder that the European Union must “put human lives” above economic policy considerations, that privilege...
Middle East coordinator calls for new and timely Palestinian election date
After the postponement of the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, originally scheduled for 22 May, a senior UN official in the region on Friday urged...
Chad: UN rights office profoundly disturbed over violence against protesters
The UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday that it is deeply disturbed by security forces in Chad’s use of live ammunition during recent protests...
NEW DELHI, India, Apr 30 (IPS) – Every time a woman journalist receives threats of physical and sexual violence, cyber attacks and surveillence, doxxing,...
UN Banks on Water as the Game Changer in Food Production and Consumption
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) – As the United Nations prepares for its solutions-based Global Food Systems Summit in September, officials say resolving issues...
WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) – The writer is CPJ Washington Advocacy Manager 3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Apr 30 (IPS) – The writer is Co-Editor, Jadaliyya, www.jadaliyya.com, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute based in...
Little Foot’s shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed
Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult...
An 89-year-old pianist who escaped the Holocaust in Nazi Germany almost eight decades ago, has been explaining how he started playing jazz in memory...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter 
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo 
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes