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BANGALORE & PAKHIRALAY, India, October 15 (IPS) - Bapi Mondal's morning routine in Bangalore is a world away from his ancestral village, Pakhiralay, in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. He wakes before dawn, navigates heavy traffic, and spends eight long ...

WASHINGTON DC, October 15 (IPS) - I moved to the United States in 2012 with great reluctance. I wasn't sure why I should uproot myself to a country thousands of miles away from my hometown. The move reminded me of a childhood I hadn't fully embraced- ...

Poverty is not just scarcity. It is exclusion, stigma, and invisibility. Poverty is not a personal failure. It is a systemic failure. A denial of dignity and human rights.

WASHINGTON DC, October 15 (IPS) - Countries across the Global South face an accelerating climate crisis, tepid growth, and unsustainable levels of debt. Yet hopes of finding support at the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Annual Meetings in ...

NAIROBI, October 14 (IPS) - The Gambia's lead negotiator on mitigation believes that COP30 presents a unique opportunity to rebalance global climate leadership.

WASHINGTON DC, October 14 (IPS) - The World Bank and other multilateral development banks recently have begun reconsidering their self-imposed restrictions on financing fossil fuel projects. This change is being prompted in part by the new U.S. ...

The UN maritime agency opened a special session in London on Tuesday, where nations are debating - and may adopt - a landmark framework to curb greenhouse gas emissions for global shipping, amid intense debate and open US opposition.

More than eight per cent of the world population or around 673 million people are not getting enough to eat and going hungry, according to the UN.

ABUJA, Nigeria, October 14 (IPS) - Recent research from Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI warns that bias in artificial intelligence remains deeply rooted even in models designed to avoid it and can worsen as models grow. From bias in hiring ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, October 14 (IPS) - Global South cooperation arrangements must evolve to better respond to pressing contemporary and imminent challenges, rather than risk being irrelevant straitjackets stuck in the past.