Gender Equality in STEM for a better tomorrow UAE Minister of State for Advanced Sciences Sarah bint Yousif Al Amir speaks during an event to… Read More »Women and Girls to the Front

The writer is a social and medical anthropologist. Vaccine access negotiations are at critical juncture. While many countries support the intellectual property rights waiver, including… Read More »When Battling Covid-19 Becomes a National Policy Disaster

A 15-year-old boy working alongside a teenage girl at an artisanal and small-scale mine in Odahu, Amansie West district, Ghana. Credit: Juliane Kippenberg/Human Rights Watch… Read More »Does a New ‘Gold Standard’ Really Protect Miners?

Delegates from Asia and Africa met during a two-day conference to discuss ICPD25 programme of action. Credit: APDA Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 23 2021 (IPS)… Read More »Parliamentarians Determined to Reach ICPD 25 Goals

Building on its innovative model that has already reached +4.6 million children & adolescents in the world’s worst humanitarian crises, Education Cannot Wait calls for… Read More »New Education Cannot Wait Annual Results Report Highlights Multiplying Education Challenges for Children & Adolescents Living in Emergencies & Protracted Crises amid Covid-19

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Credit: Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID MADRID, Jan 14 2022 (IPS) – While absolutely ready to kill, with the biggest military powers spending in 2020… Read More »Fully Ready to Kill, Shockingly Unprepared to Save Lives

Each year, between 2002 and 2016, an average of about 423 million hectares or 4.23 million square km of the Earth’s land surface – an… Read More »Shall the Arctic Burn?

The writer is Director, Global Health Justice Program, Society for International Development (SID), and Co-chair Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2). The (22-28 May) is expected… Read More »Projections for a Pandemic Future: in Whose Interest?

The writer is Director, Population Division of the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. School Opens in Weapons Free Zone East of UNMISS”.… Read More »What Future for a World of 8 Billion?