SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15 2009 (IPS) – Eighteen U.S. veterans kill themselves every day. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. One in every three homeless men in the United States has put on a uniform and served his country. On any given night, the U.S. government estimates 200,000 veterans sleep on the street.
This is the crisis General Eric Shinseki will inherit when he takes the reins at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The general, who retired from the Army after the George W. Bush administration ignored his warnings on Iraq, sat for his Senate confirmation hearing for VA secretary Wednesday, where he received accolades from Democrats and Republicans alike.
The chair of the committee, Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, predicted Shinseki wi…
Children in drought-struck Camotán, in Chiquimula province, Guatemala. Credit: Danilo Valladares/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 6 2013 (IPS) – Kevin’s Carter’s disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.
The image of an emaciated child being watched by a vulture was etched into the world s memory forever, drawing attention to conditions where survival becomes the only priority.
Reducing the child mortality rate and improving maternal health prominently figure in the list of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were adopted by the international community in 2000 in New York with a 2015 deadline.Malnutrition i…
A UN peacekeeper on patrol in Bria, Central African Republic. Credit: UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 14 2017 (IPS) – Rape, torture, pillage, murder and forced displacement by the Union for Peace in Central Africa (UPC) rebel forces are the new horrifying realities faced by communities in Basse-Kotto, Central African Republic, according to the prominent London-based human rights group Amnesty International.
The UN peacekeeping force in the region, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Cent…
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Apr 26 2020 (IPS) – Following the outbreak and declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, there has been a flurry of scientific research and publications to address challenges posed by the …
Nov 30 2020 (IPS) – World AIDS Day this year finds us still deep amid another pandemic – . The highly infectious novel coronavirus has swept across the world, devastating health systems and laying waste to economies as governments introduced drastic measures to contain the spread. Not since the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1990s have countries faced such a common health threat.
This explains why UNAIDS has selected the theme “” for this year’s World AIDS Day.
Infectious diseases such as these remain a major threat to human health and prosperity. Around have died from AIDS-related illnesses in the last 40 years. At the time of writing, had already died from COVID-1…