Countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, China – Taiwan Province, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, World Sources: Asian Development Bank, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre From Pakistan to the Philippines, Asia […]

Photo: Public Domain Pictures/Circe Denyer As a child swimming off the coast of south Devon in the 1960s, I believed the warm water passing through my legs was the Gulf Stream current. Now, as an adult, I realise it was actually raw sewage being discharged into the ocean. In those […]

The Mexico City government is increasing the number of electric buses in its fleet, such as the trolleybuses pictured here on a street in the south of the capital. But their energy source is still fossil fuels and the deployment of electric cars remains slow in the country. CREDIT: Emilio […]

Aisha Khurram, a youth advocate from Afghanistan, told the Transforming Education Summit that despite suicide bombings and terrorist attacks, she continued her education. She reminded delegates that education was important as food, water, and shelter to young people. By Naureen HossainUnited Nations, Sep 18 2022 (IPS) Suicide bombings shattered Aisha […]

By Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Sep 16 2022 (IPS-Partners) Leaders from across the world are uniting at the UN Secretary-General’s Transforming Education Summit to address a global education crisis that threatens to derail decades of development gains and is depriving millions of girls across the world of their inherent human right […]