POPULATION: Bridging the Family Planning Gap
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 2009 (IPS) - Some 43 countries around the world now have populations that are either essentially stable...
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: 'Our Lives Are Most Important'
Terna GyuseDURBAN, Apr 4 2009 (IPS) - The Fourth South African AIDS conference ended in Durban Friday with optimism over...
ENVIRONMENT: A Dozen Countries Take on Toxic Pollution
Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 29 2009 (IPS) - Of the tens of thousands of toxic sites affecting the health of...
Water as Human Right Threatens to Split World Body
Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 2010 (IPS) - A long outstanding proposal to recognise the right to water as a...
ZAMBIA: “Every Year Flooding Makes This Place a Little Hell”
LUSAKA, Jul 1 2011 (IPS) - During the rainy season, and many weeks afterwards, home is never the best place...
Analysis: Economic Growth Is Not Enough
Jessica Faieta is U.N. Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.A shantytown in Guatemala. UNDP...
Healthy Oceans: Keeping Asia and the Pacific Afloat
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCAPCredit: Unsplash / Adolfo Félix BANGKOK, Thailand, May...
Philippines’ Senior Citizens Vulnerabilities Increase Because of COVID-19 Lockdown
Senior citizens supervise the construction of a community-run tree nursery and collective farm in Alangalang of Philippine’s Eastern Visayas region....
To Build Back Better from the Pandemic, We Must Overhaul the Way We Deal with Development Finance
The author is Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia ScotlandLONDON, Jun 25 2021 (IPS) - Over the past 18 months, the impacts...