Three Steps for Leaders to Tackle Covid and Climate Emergency
GENEVA, Jul 24 2020 (IPS) - Dr David Nabarro is Special Envoy to the World Health Organisation on COVID-19 and...
Technology Meets Creativity on Women’s Empowerment Platform
Artist Ayushi Chauhan’s painting on the Fuzia website. Credit: NEW YORK, Sep 1 2020 (IPS) - Eight years ago, at...
Can Agroecology Feed the World?
Credit: in the Philippines, supported by the Agroecology FundROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) - Producing food and ensuring nutrition security,...
Keeping Climate Ambition Alive: Challenges Remain but Signs of Progress Abound
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 3 2020 (IPS) - For those of us in the international climate action community, 2020 isn’t ending...
Dengue—an Epidemic Within a Pandemic in Peru
International Year of Volunteers: A volunteer ombudsman in Peru helps a local woman with her problem, 2001. Credit: UN PhotoUNITED...
Ending Inequality is Everyone’s Business
A health worker at a local health centre in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, prepares a vaccine injection. The...
Hope & Numbers: What will it take to Tip the Scales on Climate Action?
The writer is International Climate Political Advisor at Greenpeace InternationalThe UN says global temperature rise could lead to more frequent...
How to Assess the Willingness of US to Suspend Patent Protection on Vaccines?
Colombia was one of the first countries in the Americas to receive the COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX Facility. Credit:...
Apocalypse Now? Christian Fundamentalists and COVID-19
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 17 2021 (IPS) - Getting hard to breathe hard to believe in anything at all,...
What Public Health Officials Can Learn from a New Long COVID Survey
There are calls to include migrants and other vulnerable groups in the vaccine rollout programmes in the Southern Africa region....