STEM’s racial, ethnic and gender gaps are still strikingly large
Efforts to promote equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math have a long way to go, a new report suggests. Over the...
Profound Reform or Redundancy United Nations’ Quandary?
GENEVA, Apr 13 (IPS) – Three recent developments bring about again the reasoning on the dire need to immediately reform the United Nations (UN)...
Almost half of women in some 57 countries do not have the power to make choices over their healthcare, contraception, or sex lives, a...
COVID-19 Teaches Us to Better Manage Global Systemic Risks
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 14 (IPS) – The writer is UN Under Secretary-General for Economic & Social AffairsMillions of lives lost. Trillions of dollars in...
The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, said on Tuesday that it will work closely with Japan which is preparing to release a million tonnes of contaminated...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have called for countries to suspend sales of live wild mammals in traditional food markets, also known...
The rights of refugees and asylum seekers who have fled Burundi for Tanzania must be respected, experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council...
The UN together with Turkey, and Qatar, announced on Tuesday that a high-level conference aimed at ending decades of conflict in Afghanistan will go ahead beginning...
Faced with alarming and extended closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s museums are of “fundamental importance” to reviving cultural life and preserving...
Recent elections in Kosovo reflected a strong desire for change, the head of the UN mission there, UNMIK, said in his virtual briefing to...
Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent 
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war 
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’ 
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point