On Sri Lanka’s Tea Estates, Maternal Health Leaves a Lot to Be Desired
A pregnant woman waits in line for a medical check-up. Health indicators for women on Sri Lanka’s tea estates are...
Month: September 2024
True Gender Equality for Both Women and Men
Joseph Chamie is a former Director of the United Nations Population Division.UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 2014 (IPS) - Numerous international...
Inequality Fuels HIV Epidemic in the Caribbean
Outspoken artist Edison Liburd, in St. John's, Antigua. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPSST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Feb 10 2015 (IPS) - At 49...
World Misses Its Potential by Excluding 50 Percent of Its People
A scene from the 57th Commission on the Status of Women. Credit: UN Photo/Rick BajornasUNITED NATIONS, Mar 5 2015 (IPS)...
1.7 Billion Dollars Needed to Improve Ebola-hit Countries’ Health Care, Says Oxfam
Scene from an Ebola treatment facility run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Guéckédou, Guinea, on the day of a...
Opinion: Minsk Agreements, the Only Path to Peace in Ukraine
Prof. Aslan Abashidze is the Head of the Department of International Law at Moscow’s Friendship University and a member of...
Medicinal Plants Popular and Unprotected in Mexico
Clemente Calixto, a certified traditional healer, discusses the healing properties of a plant during a workshop in Mexico City. In...
One Year After Sendai – What The World Can Learn from Armenia
Armen Chilingaryan is Disaster Risk Reduction Programme Coordinator at UNDP ArmeniaDevastation from the Mar. 1, 2011 tsunami that swept through...
Poorest Countries Have Progressed but Fragile Countries Lag Behind
Afghanistan is both a fragile country and a least developed country. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSUNITED NATIONS, May 26 2016 (IPS) -...
New Ebola Vaccine Trial Results Offer Hope
Two health care workers clean their feet in a bucket of water containing bleach after they leave an Ebola isolation...