The 14th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was held this week, with participants urging policymakers to address the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that tobacco use claims about eight million lives a year. Credit: WHOCAPETOWN / BANGKOK, Aug 2 2021 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic has taken…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 28 2021 (IPS) - US President Biden’s earlier support for a vaccine patent waiver raised hopes for his summit last week. However, it proved disappointing, not…
US, UK, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland in violation of international human rights law in “prolonging the pandemic” ahead of vital World Trade Organisation meeting GENEVA, Nov 10 2021 - An…
Online platform Fuzia uses positive reinforcement and creativity to support its community. Credit: Sangeeta CS/FuziaNew York, Dec 21 2021 (IPS) - This is an age where pandemics are raging, millions…
Creative ways are needed to meet the ICDP 25 goals. Here girls and young women are learning to code in North Darfur as a way to increase future job prospects…
A rescued boat woman and her two children eat some welcome food at a centre in Kuala Cangkoi, Indonesia. The UN urges 'people-centred' approach to migrants and refugees in Southeast…
A polio vaccinator administers the oral polio vaccine to a child in Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSABUJA, Jun 22 2022 (IPS) - For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju – a Nigerian, Rotarian,…
We are failing to take antimicrobial resistance seriously, perhaps because it is not glamorous and relatable. Credit: Bigstock.Sep 21 2022 (IPS) - Staphylococcus aureus is the source of a skin…
SYDNEY, Jan 17 2023 (IPS) - Inflation worries topped Ipsos’s in 2022 overtaking COVID concerns. The return of inflation caught major central banks, e.g., the US Federal Reserve (Fed), Bank…
The writer is President, World Alliance for Mercury-Free DentistryThe World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry delegates at Minamata COP-4, on 23 March, 2022, Bali, Indonesia. Credit: Kiara Worth, IISD/ENB (Earth Negotiation…
Soo Hyoun Lim (right) and friend campaign for safe working environments for cafeteria workers.Seoul, Sep 28 2022 (IPS) - During my summer break this year, I read about five school…
On March 6, 2022, Izyum Central City Hospital (Kharkiv oblast) was attacked as a part of what appears to have been a large-scale carpet-bombing campaign. Reportedly, the hospital team had…
Stagnant water in one of Nairobi’s residential areas. Credit: Wilson Odhiambo/IPSNAIROBI, May 8 2023 (IPS) - ‘Urban’ Kenya has been alerted because new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, threatens to derail…
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 29 2022 (IPS) - Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific: they work in agricultural fields producing our food supplies, peddle their wares as…
Tendayi Westerhof was one of the first celebrities in Zimbabwe to disclose their HIV-positive status. BRATISLAVA, Feb 14 2024 (IPS) - UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, recently made an impassioned…
Hepatitis remains a deadly disease, causing over 800,000 deaths globally each year. Credit: Shutterstock. Jul 25 2024 (IPS) - July 28th is World Hepatitis Day, created to celebrate the life…
KUALA LUMPUR and BERN, Jul 19 2023 (IPS) - In 2015, almost all heads of government in the world committed to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal…
The salinity of the water in coastal Bangladesh contributes to high blood pressure. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPSDHAKA, Nov 7 2023 (IPS) - Since her childhood, Parveen Begum, 52, has been adding…
Tim Wainwright is Chief Executive of .Credit: WaterAid/ DRIK/ Habibul HaqueLONDON, Jan 31 2020 (IPS) - There was only one topic on everyone’s lips at Davos this year – c.…
International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social ResearchKazimir Malevich, Children on the Grass, 1908 (Pushkin Museum State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow). Mar 23 2020 - SARS-CoV-2…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 7 2020 (IPS) - In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation jointly launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa…
Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSApr 26 2020 (IPS) - Following the outbreak and declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there has been a flurry of scientific research and publications to…
BONN, Apr 29 2020 (IPS) - Do you recognize this man? You do, of course. It is the silhouette of Beethoven, the famous composer and pianist, well known all over…
Remittances now account for an important portion of GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean and support millions of families, so the drop in this source of income is shaking…
AMSTERDAM/ROME, Jun 8 2020 (IPS) - As the COVID-19 virus spread rapidly around the globe, so did various theories about what caused the pandemic. According to the standard scientific theory,…
Credit: United NationsJun 29 2020 (IPS) - While COVID-19 has made the headlines every day over the past two months, services for tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest in the…
MEXICO CITY, Aug 14 2020 (IPS) - A group composed by women and men, called Nuevo Curso de Desarrollo (New Course for Development) based at the National University of Mexico…
Wang Yi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, addresses the virtual Security Council summit-level debate on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Global Governance post Covid-19”.…
Mothers and their children gather at a community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, Madagascar, to learn more about a healthy diet. Credit: Alain Rakotondravony/IPSNAPLES, Italy, Nov 25…
Jul 9 2020 - During the pandemic, forced return of migrants has become a major issue of concern for intergovernmental bodies and the global civil society engaged in migration issues.…
Sorghum is has nutritional and health benefits. Small scale farmer, Catherine Sibanda examines her sorghum crop in field, in Jambezi District, Zimbabwe, March 2015. Credit: Busani Bafana / IPSBULAWAYO, Dec…
A TB patient at the Srinagar-based Chest Diseases Hospital in the Indian state of Kashmir. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSJan 15 2021 (IPS) - In July 1921, a French infant became the…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 23 2021 (IPS) - have significant access to coronavirus vaccines before 2023. Unfortunately, a year’s delay will cause an estimated 2.5 million avoidable deaths in…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 18 2021 (IPS) - Millions of people are expected to die due to delayed and unaffordable access to COVID-19 tests, treatment, personal protective equipment and vaccines.…
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 28 2021 (IPS) - With health systems at a breaking point, hospitals at capacity and desperate family members searching for oxygen for loved ones, the devastating second…
Credit: UNOHCR.PHILADELPHIA, US, Oct 7 2021 (IPS) - Last month, asylum-seeking families at the U.S.-Mexico border appeared to have won a victory, however temporary, in their last-ditch bid for safety…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 2021 (IPS) - Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market ‘non-system’ has emerged. The 1980s’ neo-liberal counter-revolution…
Medical staff pose in a new maternal care ward at the Melamchi Municipality Hospital, Nepal, in November 2021. Credit: Marty Logan/IPSKATHMANDU, Feb 4 2022 (IPS) - As the omicron wave…
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 3 2021 (IPS) - As the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, we honour the leadership of persons with disabilities and their tireless…
Sub Saharan Africa has a population of 1.14 billion, yet just 24% of the population has access to safe drinking water. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSABUJA, Mar 2 2022 (IPS) - Paul…
Credit: United Nations KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 20 2022 (IPS) - As a global pandemic, COVID-19 and its continued impacts are unprecedented. Yet many of the challenges that emerged in…
The writers are Deputy Executive Directors of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) A man is tested for HIV at a health centre in Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit:…
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. Michel de MontaigneSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) - During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 2022 (IPS) - Central banks (CBs) around the world – led by the US Fed, European Central Bank and Bank of England – are…
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 30 2022 (IPS) - Asia and the Pacific is the most digitally divided region of the world, and South-East Asia is the most divided subregion. The Covid-19…
Anti-Austerity protests in 2006-2020. Credit: NEW YORK, Jan 13 2023 (IPS) - This week world leaders meet in to discuss cooperation to address multiple crises, from COVID-19 and escalating inflation…
A girl reads a story book with lessons on life skills at an ELA club in Uganda. Credit: Uganda/BRAC UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2023 (IPS) - BRAC’s Empowerment and Livelihood…
The cumulative needs of injured patients from the war have created a medical crisis. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPSADDIS ABABA, Mar 30 2023 (IPS) - There are about globally who cannot access…
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