Why Investing in Women Is Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 01 (IPS) – Last year, the Asia-Pacific region recorded its worst economic performance in decades. With the pandemic far from over,...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 01 (IPS) – Pandemic relief measures in developing countries have been limited by modest resources, fear of financial market...
Haiti: funding gap threatens the lives of nearly 86,000 children
In Haiti, the number of severely malnourished under-fives could more than double this year, UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday. Some could die if...
“Quitters are the real winners in the case of tobacco”, says the World Health Organization as part of a campaign to help smokers that...
The teeth of ‘wandering meatloaf’ contain a rare mineral found only in rocks
The hard, magnetic teeth of a leathery red-brown mollusk nicknamed “the wandering meatloaf” possess a rare mineral previously seen only in rocks. The mineral...
COVID danger has not passed, States must support pandemic treaty: Tedros
UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged all countries on Monday to support a pandemic preparedness treaty, warning that it would be a...
Is Sharing More than Water the Key to Transboundary Governance in the Meghna River Basin?
DHAKA, May 31 (IPS) – Kajol Miah is a rice farmer from the Bangladesh side of the Meghna River Basin. And in towns on...
First Person: Learning a recipe for freedom in Nigeria
When Nigerian Blessing Ojukwu became pregnant after she was raped, her family disowned her. She was forced to live with her abuser, who continued to attack...
Its Time to Reimagine Our Relationship with Nature
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, May 31 (IPS) – The writer is Global Campaign Lead, Food and Forests, Greenpeace International  : The following Oped is part...
STOCKHOLM / ROME, May 31 (IPS) – In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich...
Light is hard to block from every direction. This physicist found a way 
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens 
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening 
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo