Community health workers demand to be recognised as formal workers with pay and benefits to match. Credit: Zofeen T. Ebrahim KARACHI, Oct 19 2023 (IPS) – “Professionally, I am still where I was 23 years ago when I started working as a lady health worker (LHW),” said a disgruntled Yasmin Siddiq, 47, from Karachi. “I…

Credit: UNICEF/Abdulazeem Mohamed   War in Sudan is putting the future of its 24 million youngest citizens at risk, the Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned. January 2024   Meanwhile geopolitical and geoeconomic fragmentation threaten the development and survival of children across the globe. But a more hopeful path exists. UNITED NATIONS, Feb…

The Al-Helal Al-Emirati maternity hospital in Rafah is one of the last remaining functioning health facilities in southern Gaza. Midwives are delivering more than 70 babies per day in dire conditions and while drastically under-supplied. Credit: UNFPA Palestine/Bisan Ouda UNITED NATIONS, May 10 2024 (IPS) – As millions of children and families celebrate their mothers,…

Credit: Oritro Karim NEW YORK, Jul 17 2024 (IPS) – Cities, once thought to be modern utopias that foster innovation, inclusivity, and commerce, actually ended up being hubs for environmental degradation. Although the concept of urban living is inextricable from humanity, there are proposed ways to make them less environmentally taxing. One such solution is…