Latin America Still Has a Long Way to Go to Eliminate Gender Violence — Global Issues

Latin America Still Has a Long Way to Go to Eliminate Gender Violence — Global Issues

“He who loves does not kill, does not humiliate or mistreat” reads a poster carried in a protest against violence against women in Lima, the capital of Peru, which is part of a slogan repeated in demonstrations against femicides and other forms of sexist violence in Latin America. CREDIT: Mariela…

Africa Will Not Cope with Climate Change Without a Just, Inclusive Energy Transition — Global Issues

Africa Will Not Cope with Climate Change Without a Just, Inclusive Energy Transition — Global Issues

Thandile Chinyavanhu by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, November 24, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Nov 24 (IPS) – A just transition should be viewed as an opportunity to rectify some of the wrongs where women are not prioritised in the energy mix, yet their experience of the impact of climate change…

Can COP 28 Deliver for Cities and Climate Migrants? — Global Issues

Can COP 28 Deliver for Cities and Climate Migrants? — Global Issues

Climate migrants tend to move to cities in their own countries where they often end up in urban slums characterized by sub-standard housing. Credit: Donatas Dabravolskas/Shutterstock Opinion by Jin-ho Chung (oxford, england) Friday, November 24, 2023 Inter Press Service OXFORD, England, Nov 24 (IPS) – The impacts of climate change on…

Olympian Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole

Olympian Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who was imprisoned for the murder of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, will be released after a successful parole bid on Friday, South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services said in a statement. The former…

Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks — Global Issues

Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks — Global Issues

Violent clashes between non-state armed groups and government forces have displaced more than 450,000 people in the last six weeks in Rutshuru and Masisi territories in North Kivu province. People arriving in the town of Sake, located near the provincial capital Goma, spoke of having to make harrowing choices, with…

Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks — Global Issues

In visit to Antarctica, Guterres appeals for action to end ‘climate anarchy’ — Global Issues

António Guterres is in Antarctica this week, where he saw first-hand how climate change is impacting the world’s southernmost continent, which is mostly covered in ice. The heat is on “Fossil fuel pollution is heating our planet, unleashing climate anarchy in Antarctica,” said Mr. Guterres, adding that the Southern Ocean…

Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks — Global Issues

UN delivers more aid into Gaza on first day of humanitarian pause — Global Issues

Gaza has a population of over two million, with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugee, UNRWA, hosting more than a million displaced people in 156 of its installations across the enclave. The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday that 200 trucks were dispatched from Nitzana, a town…

Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks — Global Issues

Gaza: start of truce feeds hopes for respite, access to people in need: UN humanitarians

Trucks with relief supplies continued to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing from Egypt on Friday after the entry into force of a four-day pause in fighting, UN humanitarians said. Read the full story, “Gaza: start of truce feeds hopes for respite, access to people in need: UN humanitarians”, on…

Israel-Gaza war live updates: Pause in fighting begins as part of hostage release deal with Hamas

Israel-Gaza war live updates: Pause in fighting begins as part of hostage release deal with Hamas

A planned pause in fighting in Gaza went into effect Friday morning, as aid trucks including fuel entered the besieged Palestinian enclave and photos from southern Gaza showed people out in the streets after weeks of fighting and Israeli bombardment. The first respite in seven weeks of war follows a…

A Reinvigorated Regional Commitment to Tsunami Preparedness in Asia & the Pacific — Global Issues

A Reinvigorated Regional Commitment to Tsunami Preparedness in Asia & the Pacific — Global Issues

Source: UNESCO-IOC (The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.?) Opinion by Temily Baker, Juliette de Charry (bangkok, thailand) Friday, November 24, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 24 (IPS) – Between 1970 and 2022,…