Myanmar: Attacks on healthcare jeopardizing COVID-19 response, UN team says
There have been at least 158 reported attacks on medical personnel and facilities in Myanmar, with more than 139 doctors arrested and charged since the military...
Coping with the USA-China Conflict Strategic Procrastination
AMSTERDAM/ROME, May 05 (IPS) – For several years, a fast growing and assertive China has been challenging the USA’s global dominance. China’s GDP, taking...
A rare glimpse of a star before it went supernova defies expectations
A rare glimpse of a star before it exploded in a fiery supernova looks nothing like astronomers expected, a new study suggests. Images from...
How a small city in Brazil may reveal how fast vaccines can curb COVID-19
The city of Serrana in Brazil is a living experiment. The picturesque place, surrounded by sugarcane fields, is nestled in the southeast of one...
UN report sounds alarm on acute global shortage of midwives
The world is currently facing a shortage of 900,000 midwives, with COVID-19 further exacerbating the situation as many midwives have been deployed to other...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 05 (IPS) – The writer* is Co-Founder, ENGAGE, Inclusive Change Through Volunteering Children all over the world are having tough times...
Youth Voice and Action Critical to Reforming the Worlds Food Systems
UNITED NATIONS, May 05 (IPS) – Four months before the United Nations holds the Global Food Systems Summit, youth advocates met virtually this week...
Young people key to transforming world’s food systems
Young people are taking a leading role in shaping fair and equitable food systems around the world, senior UN officials affirmed on Tuesday during...
Brazil Relies on Rainfall that Depends on the Forests
RÃ�O DE JANEIRO, May 04 (IPS) – “Rainfall is fundamental; the streams and rivers we have would not suffice for irrigation, even if they...
UN forum examines how to make science and technology work better for all
Harnessing the full potential of science and technology for the benefit of all people, everywhere, is the focus of a two-day virtual meeting convened...
Inside the New York ‘time machine’ racing to save a century of sound and film 
Two Summits in Bangkok: IMF/World Bank and Finance Ministers Inside, the People’s Assembly Outside 
CHINA: ‘My Sister Has Been in a Chinese Prison for Eight Years Because I Exercised My Freedom of Speech’ 
COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working?