Outright Hatred Towards Muslims, Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’ — Global Issues

Outright Hatred Towards Muslims, Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’ — Global Issues

Hate speech – including online – has become one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace around the world, says UN chief. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 13 (IPS) – Islamophobia is a ‘fear, prejudice…

Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages — Global Issues

Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages — Global Issues

Benson Musyoka rides his motorcycle from Kamboo health centre to transport vaccines to Yindalani village. Photo Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Mar 13 (IPS) – Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni…

Parliamentarians Pledge to Act on Grim Realities of Child Marriage, Gender-Based Violence — Global Issues

Parliamentarians Pledge to Act on Grim Realities of Child Marriage, Gender-Based Violence — Global Issues

Delegates at the Arab and Asian Parliamentarians’ Meeting to Follow-Up on ICPD25 Commitments: Addressing Youth Empowerment and Gender-Based Violence, held in Jakarta, Indonesia held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Credit: APDA by Cecilia Russell (johannesburg) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Mar 13 (IPS) – Child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV), sexuality…

Pandemic Accord Text Falls Short of Expectations — Global Issues

Pandemic Accord Text Falls Short of Expectations — Global Issues

The WHO working group met to consider 307 amendments proposed by governments to update current regulations. February 2023. Credit: World Health Organization (WHO) Opinion by Nicoletta Dentico, Ashka Naik (geneva) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Mar 13 (IPS) – As countries recently gathered in Geneva for the fourth…

Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Chief Predicts How War Will End

Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Chief Predicts How War Will End

Kyiv, Ukraine – As Ukraine announces a planned counteroffensive in the Spring, the head of the country’s Main Intelligence Directorate, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, is predicting that the coming battles will be ‘decisive’.  It’s not the first prediction that the general, who has grown up professionally in the ranks of…

Syria rights investigators back calls for earthquake ‘failures’ probe — Global Issues

Syria rights investigators back calls for earthquake ‘failures’ probe — Global Issues

The Commission of Inquiry on Syriapointed to “failures that hindered the delivery of urgent and lifesaving aid” to the largely opposition-held northwest region, in the days after the 6 February quakes. Humanitarian assessments point to more than 7,000 people killed in Syria by the natural disaster. Rescue equipment lacking At…

UN experts call on South Africa to create torture prevention body — Global Issues

UN experts call on South Africa to create torture prevention body — Global Issues

The experts offered several recommendations after observing a range of concerns, from poor detention conditions to allegations of corruption, on the heels of the first visit of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) to South Africa, from 26 February…

Digital technology new source of discrimination against women: Guterres — Global Issues

Digital technology new source of discrimination against women: Guterres — Global Issues

The town hall with representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was held as part of the annual session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW), which meets in New York every March.   Its latest two-week session – known as CSW67, which runs through Friday – is focused…

Sticking to ‘cold, hard’ climate facts can end global warming: Guterres — Global Issues

Sticking to ‘cold, hard’ climate facts can end global warming: Guterres — Global Issues

Underlining the “urgent need to end global heating with cold, hard facts”, he said the panel’s forthcoming report ahead of the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), to be held in Dubai in November, comes at a pivotal time. ‘Tip of the tipping point’ “Our world is at a crossroads,…