The Issue is Exploitation, not Migration
MUMBAI, May 27 (IPS) – “There’s no other option but to return,” said Chitrasen in January 2021, when asked if he would migrate back...
Why Stakeholder Coalitions Could Be Key to the Glasgow Climate Summits Success
NEW YORK, May 27 (IPS) – The past few weeks brought a burst of optimism on the climate front. It began on April 18...
To find answers about the 1921 race massacre, Tulsa digs up its painful past
On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, walked into an elevator in downtown Tulsa, Okla. What happened next is unclear,...
Here are answers to 3 persistent questions about the coronavirus’s origins
Controversy is once again swirling around the origins of the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, rekindling calls to pin down just where it came...
Odds are increasing that the annual average global temperature will rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in at least one of the next five...
To Beat Covid, Beat HIV, & Beat Inequality, Find the Money
GENEVA, May 27 (IPS) – The writer is Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.In this time of intersecting crises –...
The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Wednesday to discuss the derailing of Mali’s transitional government following the apparent forced departure of...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday urged Libya’s unity government and European Union (EU) countries to act to protect migrants...
A call to use Africa’s rich cultural and natural heritage as a catalyst for growth and transformation is “the right appeal at the right...
The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening the already difficult situation of older refugees across Latin America, according to a joint assessment published on Wednesday by...
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