Of the $262 million Germany pledged to the WHO at the 2024 World Health Summit, only a third has been budgeted.

The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) announced a "strategic partnership" with Nestlé to establish the World

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At a time when political parties are competing to recognise women’s contribution to housework, recognising scheme workers as workers with the right to fair wages, proper working conditions and social ...

The Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) of Kerala have been striking in front of the state Secretariat since February 9, demanding better wages and benefi

The Trump administration is testing out whether Trump can get away with taking a clearly more authoritarian path forward. We must respond accordingly.

When America catches a cold, the world sneezes. Thus, the US withdrawal from the World Health Organisation (WHO), along with the gutting of USAID, PEPFAR and

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Repeated Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians over the last 14 months, the dismantling of the health care system and other essential infrastructure, the suffocating siege, and the systema...

As science misinformation takes hold in the White House, those seeking to set the record straight need to meet people where they are

Questions are important and needed, but we must not resort to rewriting history.

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Demonstrators who had gathered to protest the sudden introduction of military rule are now celebrating.

Members of the national assembly banned from entering building after president announces ‘emergency martial law’

ICJ to hear submissions from more than 100 groups in Pacific-led campaign to provide a legal blueprint on obligations of states for climate harm

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

2024 is now humanitarians’ deadliest year on record, driven by the war in Gaza

As Israel’s destruction of Gaza has escalated, the months-long rift between aid staff and leaders has widened.

Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis

Last year, Germany’s Foreign Office spelled out guidelines for a “feminist” foreign policy, focused on defending marginalized women. Today in Gaza, this same ministry is arming the deadliest war on wo...

Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor

A new study finds that caste plays a vital role in high rates of stunting in children in India.

Signs of resistance to artemisinin in tenth of children with severe malaria similar to situation in Asia, say researchers