When US President Donald Trump offered to declare neighboring Canada as America’s 51st state, the Canadians vehemently rejected the proposal. “We don’t want to be part of America,” was the rallying ...

Since 2000, the United Nations (UN) recognizes May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, in hopes of ...

NEW YORK, May 22 2025 (IPS) - In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that upended humanitarian efforts ...

Women in fishing communities on Malawi's lakeshore are frequently targets of sexual exploitation for fish, a practice ...

As the United States lurches toward isolationism and authoritarianism, its political problems are now bleeding into ...

As delegates prepare for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, momentum is building around ocean ...

When pioneering agronomist and father of the “Green Revolution” Norman Borlaug set out to breed a disease-resistant, ...

Dr Palitha Kohona is former Head, UN Treaties, a one-time Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN & until recently, Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China.

Political instability and conflicts in the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan have led to massive ...

NEW YORK, May 21 2025 (IPS) - The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must not be allowed to collapse under the weight of geopolitical cynicism, the preparatory committee at the UN ...

Dr Himanshu Pathak is Director General of The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) ...

Statement by Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif on the need for life-saving education in Gaza ...