When the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, orbited the Earth in 1963, there were only three active Earth ...

CABACEIRAS, Brazil, Nov 11 2024 (IPS) - The small community of Ribeira stands out in the Northeast, the poorest region of ...

In Benin, college graduates struggle to find formalized work. Educated young people find themselves involved in hustle ...

It has been three years since the 2021 Taliban offensive and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan continues to grow more dire. Human rights violations are committed by the Taliban insurgent group on ...

The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record, contributed by an extended streak of high monthly global mean temperatures.

For religious, humanitarian, and scientific reasons, Israel’s increasingly apparent plan for the de facto colonization of the ...

Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to humanity. Recent science estimates that we may have less than six ...

Alongside the devastation caused by bombs and bullets, the war in Ukraine has wrought another danger that can be as deadly as the violence itself: the disruption of access to health services for ...

Just 40 years after the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship, a severe crisis grips Nicaragua. Most Nicaraguans want nothing more than to see President Daniel Ortega, who has been in office ...

“Humiliation and exclusion” – what a fascinating thematic twist to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty! Too often, discussion of poverty focuses entirely on material resources. Those ...

Since 2002, African countries have been negotiating with the European Union (EU) a new framework of cooperation called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). These are supposed to replace the Cotonou ...

So extreme are gender inequalities in South Sudan that a young girl is three times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to reach the eighth grade – the last grade before high school – ...