Kids work side by side at a temporary school for those displaced by floods in eastern Nepal. Many children experience trauma, fear or other psychological impacts of natural disasters, but few receive the necessary treatment. Credit: Mallika Aryal/IPS SURKHET, Nepal,…
An elderly displaced man carries a sack of rations on his shoulder in northern Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS PESHAWAR, Mar 10 2015 (IPS) – A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai…
BhagyaAmma, a Madiga Dalit woman and former ‘devadasi’ (temple slave), has found economic self-reliance by rearing goats in the Nagenhalli village in the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS BELLARY, India, Apr 21 2015 (IPS) – HuligeAmma, a…
Floods in Morigaon, India submerged about 45 roads in October 2014. Most people wade through the water, believing this is quicker than waiting for a rickety boat to transport them across. Credit: Priyanka Borpujari/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9 2015 (IPS)…
Hervé Verhoosel is representative in New York and Head of External Relations of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership. UNITED NATIONS, Nov 3 2015 (IPS) – An issue mostly associated with Africa and Asia, malaria may not initially come to…
A Somali woman in Garowe drawing water from one of the many man-made ponds dug through a UNDP-supported initiative to bring water to drought-affected communities. Credit: UNDP Somalia MOMBASA, Kenya, Mar 22 2016 (IPS) – While the United Nations marked…
Felistas Ngoma, 72, from Nkhamenya in the Kasungu District of Malawi, prepares nsima in her kitchen. Credit: Charity Chimungu Phiri/IPS BLANTYRE, May 27 2016 (IPS) – It’s Saturday, market day at the popular Bvumbwe market in Thyolo district. About 40…
Jomo Kwame Sundaram was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007. KUALA LUMPUR , Dec 29 2016 (IPS) – Until the turn of the century,…
Counterfeit drugs in countries like Kenya also add to the growth in antibotic resistance. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2016 (IPS) – The looming threat of a world where even minor infections are deadly has led governments to…
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…