This follows a two-day meeting in Barbados hosted by the Government, WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which concluded on Wednesday. Over half of all people living in small island countries are dying prematurely from preventable diseases and the rate of hypertension is over 30 per cent in…
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The new year is bringing new concerns for the energy market and what that might mean for broader national security moving forward. Last year saw the world’s first global energy crisis. This year, there is unprecedented transformation in the global distribution infrastructure as the Biden Administration seems…
A father and son remove their belonging from their flooded home in Taluka, Shujabad, District Mirpurkhas. Credit: RDF by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Jan 18 (IPS) – Experts question Pakistan’s 10bn USD funding for flood rehabilitation, asking if it wouldn’t have been better to…
Opinion by Taehun Lim (gwangiu, south korea) Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Inter Press Service GWANGIU, South Korea, Jan 17 (IPS) – Given the tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a co-operation between South Korea, Japan and NATO sends a message of deterrence and shared liberal values. The year 2022 was pivotal for the…
The UN’s empty corridors when the world body went into a lockdown mode because of the Covid-19 pandemic beginning March 2020. Credit: United Nations by Thalif Deen (united nations) Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) – A new variant of Covid-19, spreading across New York…
Swarming the office of President Csaba Kőrösi, the children – who ranged in age from toddler to high-school teen – pulled on the UN and Hungarian flags that flank a UN seal in the office and ran around to look at the skyline outside of the balcony. Meanwhile, parents tried…
In the recently released 2021-2022 freedom of expression report, UNESCO noted the deaths of 86 journalists last year, amounting to one every four days, up from 55 killings in 2021. The findings highlight the grave risks and vulnerabilities that journalists continue to face in the course of their work, the…
While “the rains have ended…to a great degree, so has media attention,” UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil, told reporters in Geneva adding that, with homes destroyed, children are facing a “bitter winter, without decent shelter”. Deadly floods hit Pakistan last summer, and have now only partly receded. 33 million…
The coup ended a power-sharing agreement between military and civilian leaders established following the April 2019 overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for 30 years. “After almost 15 months after the coup of 25 October 2021, returning to the transition path would be a major, major step forward…
On Monday, Abdoulaye Bathily, who is also the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, urged the government to allocate the appropriate resources, step up political efforts to end the stalemate, and reestablish legitimacy to Libyan institutions through elections. ‘Spirit of unity’ Since the 2011 overthrow of former ruler Muammar Gadaffi, oil-rich Libya has…
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