Nigerias Twitter Ban Is Part of a Larger Attack on Civil Society
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 09 (IPS) – Four years ago, Omoregie* and his friends were arrested without cause and taken into custody. When they got...
The international community must stay focused on achieving justice and peace for the people of Darfur, the outgoing Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court...
Nations Pledge to Tackle Inequalities as part of New Targets to end HIV/AIDS by 2030
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) – World leaders, those on the frontlines of the AIDS response, civil society, academics and youth have agreed that...
New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago
Humans may have inhabited what’s now southern Mexico surprisingly early, between 33,448 and 28,279 years ago, researchers say. If so, those people arrived more...
In Myanmar, international action is needed urgently to prevent “mass deaths” there, after civilians fled attacks by so-called “junta bombs”, a top independent UN...
Scream of the World: Volcanos and Earthquakes
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) – In February the killing of the Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, in the vicinity of the Virunga National...
ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) – Zoltán Kálmán is Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies in RomeIn three cycles...
Damage to Coral Reefs Hurts Fishing Communities in Central America
LOS CÓBANOS, El Salvador, Jun 09 (IPS) – As fisherman Luis Morán walked towards his small boat, which was floating in the water a...
Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions
In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the...
A deep look at a speck of human brain reveals never-before-seen quirks
A new view of the human brain shows its cellular residents in all their wild and weird glory. The map, drawn from a tiny...
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’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza