A resident of Rabaable village in Somalia fetches water with the help of her daughters. The villages well was recently rehabilitated by UNICEF. Credit: UNICEF Somalia/Sebastian Rich ROME, Mar 3 2017 (IPS) – Women across the globe are facing new…
Grace Virtue, Ph.D., is a social justice advocate and senior communications advisor for ACTION global health partnership. TAORMINA, Italy, May 25 2017 (IPS) – The G7 Summit, held annually among the leaders of the world’s most powerful economies (Canada, France,…
The Dharala River of Kurigram District. It is the poorest district of the country with 67.3 per cent of the population living below the poverty line. Credit: Wikimedia Commons DHAKA, Jul 31 2017 (IPS) – Life for Bangladesh’s rural people,…
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 2017 (IPS) – The deliberate starvation of civilians could amount to a war crime and should be prosecuted, said an independent UN human rights expert. In a new report, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to…
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2 2018 (IPS) – In Iraq, thirty years of armed conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people, wounded countless more, displaced millions and laid cities and towns to waste. Amongst all of this death and destruction,…
Palestinian child on donkey cart next to garbage container in Gaza City. Credit: Mohammed Omer/IPS UNITED NATIONS, May 10 2018 (IPS) – Reham Qudaih wakes up nightly to the same nightmare: her father shot, lying on the ground in a…
Radish production at West Africa Farms, in Northern Senegal. Credit: Sarah Farhat / World Bank WASHINGTON, Aug 1 2018 (IPS) – The world’s food systems face two immense challenges today. One, to produce enough food to nourish a global population…
NEW YORK, Nov 16 2018 (IPS) – A coalition of over 50 civil society organizations (CSOs), from more than 20 countries, have urged two of the world’s largest multi-billion dollar E-commerce retailers – Amazon and eBay – to stop marketing…
Monika Weber-Fahr, is Executive Secretary of Global Water Partnership Piped water has made life easier for this boy, who no longer has to help his parents fetch water from afar. Credit: Vannaphone Sitthirath/IPS STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Mar 18 2019 (IPS) –…
Health workers inside a “CUBE” talk to an Ebola patient, while a nurse consults a chart outside. ALIMA Ebola Treatment Centre, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two drugs have been found to successfully treat the Ebola virus. Aid agencies…