News stories by Shari Nijman

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 13 (IPS) - IPS is reissuing this piece that appeared in Mar 5, 2018 in memory of the author Victor Tsang, who tragically passed away on Sunday in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, along with 156 others. There were 21 United Nations officials on board the flight. The fatalities included people from 35 countries, including 32 Kenyan citizens, 18 from Canada, nine from Ethiopia, eight from Italy, China and the US, and seven from the UK and France.

This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of this year's International Women's Day on March 8.

Victor Tsang is UN Environment gender expert and Shari Nijman, UN Environment communication officerWhen Mandelena became a mother, she was only 16. During the prolonged dry season in Gwor County, South Sudan, her community saw crops failing and cattle dying. Children stopped going to school because of hunger and women and girls had to walk up to five hours every day to collect water.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 05 (IPS) - This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of this year's International Women's Day on March 8.
 
 
Victor Tsang is UN Environment gender expert and Shari Nijman, UN Environment communication officerWhen Mandelena became a mother, she was only 16. During the prolonged dry season in Gwor County, South Sudan, her community saw crops failing and cattle dying. Children stopped going to school because of hunger and women and girls had to walk up to five hours every day to collect water.

, Jul 06 (IPS) - Two weeks after the United Nations conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro has left many lukewarm, activists, government representatives and U.N. officials are looking forward to setting new goals for the future.

While the swine flu virus does not appear to be as potentially devastating as first imagined, environmentalists and some public health activists argue that it should be considered a wake-up call to the public about the conditions in which much of our food is being produced.

A handful of motivated doctors, HIV/AIDS and human rights activists held rallies Tuesday in New York City and 20 countries to protest the imprisonment of Iranian doctors Arash and Kamiar Aleai.