Last April, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. At the Rwandan capital, Kigali, ...

Dr. Alvaro Lario, President IFAD and UN Water Chair, spoke to IPS at COP29 about the urgent need for building farmers' ...

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 ...

“It’s a major paradox, no?” asks Hugo Ñopo, a researcher at the Peruvian think tank Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Since the beginning of the pandemic, Peru has presented itself as an ...

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 ...