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...
Smart Technologies Key to Youth Involvement in Agriculture
A cow being milked by a milking robot. Photo courtesy of Cornelia Flatten. BONN, Germany, Aug 23 2016 (IPS) -...
A Day to Remember That Every Child Deserves a Chance
Emina Cerimovic is a disability rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.NEW YORK, Feb 27 2017 (IPS) - The day I met Julija she...
Mideast: Growing Urbanisation Worsens Water Scarcity, Food Imports
Egyptian countryside south of Luxor, Egypt. In the background: the village of Al Bayadiyah. Photo: Marc Ryckaert (). license.ROME, May...
UN Appoints Experts to DRC’s Kasai to Probe Harrowing Rights Abuses
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2017 (IPS) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, appointed a...