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BULAWAYO, October 16 (IPS) - An Ebola death last week in Kenya is highlighting the urgency of Africa's public health emergency preparedness and how the continent's governments are committing their national budgets to the health sector.

UNITED NATIONS, October 16 (IPS) - The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) new report, which addresses the rapid global transformations driven by artificial intelligence (AI), demographic shifts, climate change, and ...

KUALA LUMPUR, October 16 (IPS) - With the city enveloped in a cloak of haze, the urgency of tackling the climate crisis could hardly have been clearer as the four-day Global Tipping Points Conference 2026 drew to a close at Malaysia's Sunway ...

MALMO, Sweden, October 16 (IPS) - On Monday, governments from across the world will gather in Armenia for COP17, the UN biodiversity summit, to assess progress on the global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. For anyone who cares about ...

A safe home is more than a roof over our heads. It is the foundation of health, security, opportunity and human dignity. Yet for billions of people, that foundation remains out of reach.

BENGALURU, India, October 15 (IPS) - When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Zahra Nader was pursuing a doctorate in Women and Gender studies at York University in Canada. Nader had planned to return to Afghanistan to continue .. ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, October 15 (IPS) - Kenia Hernández is an Indigenous Mexican lawyer and human rights defender dedicated to advancing women's rights and social justice.

Rapid transformations - from artificial intelligence and digital technologies to renewable energy and demographic shifts - are reshaping economies worldwide, creating new opportunities but also threatening to deepen socio-economic inequalities, a new ...

LONDON, October 14 (IPS) - At this year's highest-profile UN event, Donald Trump publicly mused over his 'big decision' about whether to 'annihilate' Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as dozens of delegates walked out, branded those .. ...

BERLIN, Germany/WASHINGTON, D.C., USA , October 14 (IPS) - The world lost more than 7 million hectares of forest to deforestation in 2025, a modest improvement on recent years but still far from what is needed to meet global forest protection targets ...