130 Countries Promise to Protect and Invest in Health Care Workers
The countries signed a statement in support of the 2021 International Year of Health and Care Workers. The statement was...
The ‘Covid-19 Timebomb’ – Dispelling the Single- Story Humanitarian Narrative for Africa
The writer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and co-director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre, Brighton,...
Leprosy has a Cure, so has Prejudice, says Miss Universe Brazil
Julia Gama, Miss Brazil Universe working with Morhan to deliver food baskets to people affected by Hansen’s disease, with support...
WTO Finished Without TRIPS Waiver
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 16 2021 (IPS) - Quickly enabling greater and more affordable production of and access to...
UN’s Overall Development Agenda at Risk as the Coronavirus Pandemic Escalates
Twelve-year-old boy in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, sorts through hazardous plastic waste without any protection, working to support his family...
We Must Carry on Paul Farmer’s Work on Social Determinants of Health
Sub Saharan Africa has a population of 1.14 billion, yet just 24% of the population has access to safe drinking water. Credit:...
Omicron-led Surge Tests China’s Zero Covid Policy
Credit: United NationsNEW DELHI, May 3 2022 (IPS) - When the Covid- 19 pandemic first broke out in Wuhan in...
Roe Overturned: What You Need to Know about the US Supreme Court Abortion Decision
A half-century of reproduction rights upended by the Supreme Court. Credit: Greenpeace.BOSTON, USA, Jun 27 2022 (IPS) - After half...
Aged Persons Haunted by Abuse in Zimbabwe
HelpAge Zimbabwe director Priscilla Gavi is concerned about the elder abuse in Zimbabwe, especially as many are reliant on their...
The Year of Debt Distress and Damaging Development Trade-Off
SYDNEY, Jan 27 2023 (IPS) - As the year 2022 drew to an end, the United Nations Conference on Trade...