DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, May 22 2025 (IPS) - As delegates prepare for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Nice, France, momentum is building around ocean governance, finance for marine ...

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. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 22 ...

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

LONDON, May 22 2025 (IPS) - The new pope, the latest in a line dating back almost 2,000 years, was quickly subjected to a very modern phenomenon: no sooner had Pope Leo XIV delivered his first address ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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