Placeholder while article actions load RIGA, Latvia — For Russia’s urban middle class, the war on Ukraine has messed up plans, ruined longed-for vacations and stripped away joys like shopping for a favorite foreign clothing brand, turning the key in a new Japanese car, even biting into a Big Mac….
“My name is Agnes Kenderman. I am 19 years old and I live in New Kru Town, Monteserrado County, with my mother and my son. My community selected me for the training programme. My mother is in poor health, and my father died a long time ago, during the civil…
War in Ukraine: What you need to know The latest: Ukraine has managed to reclaim about 20 percent of the city of Severodonetsk, its last major foothold in Luhansk, the province’s governor Serhiy Haidai said late Friday. Britain forecast earlier in the day that the entire region, which is mostly…
More than 286,000 people have been driven from their homes in the region after crops failed and animals died due to the drought and over 1100 schools are either fully or partially closed, leaving young girls especially vulnerable to sexual and physical violence and coercion, child labour and early marriage….
Fuzzy boundaries that lead to costly and incomplete enforcement and overlapping land and property laws lend common lands to exploitation. | Picture Courtesy: Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) Opinion anand, india Friday, June 03, 2022 Inter Press Service ANAND, India, Jun 03 (IPS) – Common lands are natural resources that…
Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm) Friday, June 03, 2022 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Jun 03 (IPS) – What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art. George OrwellWarfare and misinformation are intimately connected. The 29th of May was globally observed as The Day of Communication…
The blue helmets were killed, and another injured, when their Armoured Personnel Carrier hit an improvised explosive device outside the town of Douentza, located in the Mopti region in central Mali. In what is yet again another cowardly attack against our peacekeepers, 2 brave Blue helmets from Egypt lost their…
“We came to Stockholm 50 years after the UN Conference on the Human Environment knowing that something must change. Knowing that, if we do not change, the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, will only accelerate,” said Inger Andersen, Secretary-General of Stockholm+50,…
Opinion by Daud Khan (rome) Friday, June 03, 2022 Inter Press Service ROME, Jun 03 (IPS) – Developing countries are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the…
“It is vital we safeguard the health of its atmosphere, the richness and diversity of life on Earth, its ecosystems and its finite resources. But we are failing to do so,” said the UN chief. “We are asking too much of our planet to maintain ways of life that…
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