Although they represent the greater part of the world’s cultural diversity and speak the major share of its languages, indigenous people are three times...
UN independent human rights experts on Monday denounced a government-backed report into racism in the United Kingdom, saying that it further distorted and falsified...
A Growing New Health Crisis Focusing on Emergency Rooms, Medical History & Vaccines
PARIS, Apr 19 (IPS) – The writer is Communication Officer at Liberté Living-Lab, Paris France This year’s World Health Day on 7 April was...
Challenges with Skill Development Programmes During the Pandemic
HYDERABAD, Telangana, India, Apr 19 (IPS) – India’s evolving Technical and Vocational Education and Training ecosystem (TVET) faced many challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic....
Here’s what we know about B.1.1.7, the U.S.’s dominant coronavirus strain
In December 2020, health officials in the United Kingdom announced that a new coronavirus variant was rapidly spreading across the region. Weeks later, U.S....
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter made history by flying on Mars
Editor’s note: This story will be updated periodically. A helicopter just flew on Mars. NASA’s Ingenuity hovered for about 40 seconds above the Red...
How the laws of physics constrain the size of alien raindrops
Whether they’re made of methane on Saturn’s moon Titan or iron on the exoplanet WASP 78b, alien raindrops behave similarly across the Milky Way....
MYANMAR CRISIS: Stand with the people and protect them, urges UN rights expert
The international community has a responsibility to protect the people of Myanmar, under attack from their own military, the UN independent human rights expert...
Green transformation will rival industrial revolution: US climate envoy
The transition to a global economic model which will slow down climate change and create jobs will be the “biggest economic transformation since the...
Surviving a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 in a Lesotho convent
A 77-year old nun from the southern African country of Lesotho has been telling the UN how she survived a deadly outbreak of COVID-19...
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