How Marginalised Women in India Bore an Extra Burden of COVID-19 Shadow Pandemic
NEW DELHI, India, Mar 01 (IPS) – Women living in rural India and those belonging to marginalised communities faced an enormous burden during the...
A Technology-based Parasol of Protection for Victims of Domestic Abuse
NEW YORK, Mar 01 (IPS) – During the COVID19 lockdown, there has been an approximate 25% increase in domestic abuse, dubbed by the United...
End Inequality and Achieve Sustainable Development for All
BEIJING, Mar 01 (IPS) – Back in the 1990s, the discovery of antiretrovirals offered a ray of hope to save people’s lives from the...
A music therapist seeks to tap into long-lost memories
The upbeat song Sweet Caroline often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the song for an older...
‘Gory Details’ dives into the morbid, the taboo — and our minds
Gory DetailsErika EngelhauptNational Geographic, $26 We tend to turn away, physically or metaphorically, from things we find unsavory: leggy insects, bodily fluids, conversations about...
An ancient dog fossil helps trace humans’ path into the Americas
An ancient bone from a dog, discovered in a cave in southeast Alaska, hints at when and how humans entered the Americas at the...
To Lead is to Serve — A Pacific Woman’s Perspective
SUVA, Fiji, Mar 01 (IPS) – An often quoted indigenous reference in the Samoan language is, O le ala i le pule o le...
What you need to know about J&J’s newly authorized one-shot COVID-19 vaccine
And then there were three: A single-shot vaccine is the latest weapon to join the battle against COVID-19 in the United States. On February...
Biden-Harris Administration Committed to Building Resilient Agricultural Supply Chains
URBANA, Illinois, Feb 26 (IPS) – The White House, under the Presidency of Joe Biden just released an Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains...
Global inequity in COVID-19 vaccination is more than a moral problem
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. 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