Comment on this story Comment Argentina detained a man who tried to shoot Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday evening, President Alberto Fernández said, in what he called the “most serious incident to happen since we recovered democracy” four decades ago. Video footage from multiple angles captured a…
Credit: Yuryi Abramochkin/RIA Novosti – Creative Commons Opinion by Roberto Savio (rome) Thursday, September 01, 2022 Inter Press Service ROME, Sep 01 (IPS) – With the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last great statesman, and an entire epoch, disappears. I had the privilege of working with him, as deputy director of…
A family from Sachac, a Quechua farming community in the Andes highlands region of Cuzco in southeastern Peru, where Quechua is still the predominant language and where ancestral customs are preserved. When members of these native families move to the cities, they face different forms of racism, despite the fact…
With the rise in COVID-19 cases fueled by new variants, the number of long COVID cases will keep increasing. Credit: Unsplash/Ivan Diaz Opinion by Ifeanyi Nsofor (abuja) Thursday, September 01, 2022 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Sep 01 (IPS) – More than two-years in, the COVID-19 pandemic rages on with rising cases…
Credit: Pakistan Development Alliance Opinion by Zia ur Rehman (islamabad, pakistan) Thursday, September 01, 2022 Inter Press Service ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sep 01 (IPS) – Pakistan has been going through the worst time of its recent history due to unprecedented colossal monsoon rains and devastating floods. The current floods would have been…
Mr. Guterres was delivering remarks to the third UN Chiefs of Police Summit (UNCOPS), which brought together ministers, police chiefs, and senior representatives of regional and professional policing organizations. The women & men of @UNPOL are on the frontlines of our efforts to forge a better, safer world. I’m grateful…
Elvie Gallo’s thriving chicken business means she can support her family and put aside savings to build resilience against future shocks. Credit: BRAC/Robert Irven 2022 by Joyce Chimbi (iloilo, philippines) Thursday, September 01, 2022 Inter Press Service Iloilo, Philippines, Sep 01 (IPS) – Elvie Gallo no longer hangs around her local…
Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the most children out of school, 98 million, and it is also the only region where this number is increasing. The Central and Southern Asia region has the second highest out-of-school population, with 85 million. Education goals at risk “No one can accept this…
A worker carries trees to be planted during a reforestation project in Nova Mutum, Brazil, 2020. Latin America is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change, but adaptation and mitigation projects are increasing in the region (Credit: Alexandre Meneghini / Alamy) by Alejandra Cuellar (mÉxico) Wednesday, August 31, 2022…
The report published on Wednesday in the wake of the visit by UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet in May, said that “allegations of patterns of torture, or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual…
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