Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights — Global Issues

Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights — Global Issues

Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, the Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, and the Assistant Secretary-General for UN political, peacebuilding and peace operations, Khaled Khiari, spend four days on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan, to engage with Taliban leaders, and “underscore UN solidarity with the Afghan people”, according to a press release…

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO — Global Issues

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO — Global Issues

The agency announced on Thursday that it was dedicating the International Day of Education on 24 January, to the country’s women and girls.  “No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. Education is a universal human right that must be respected,” said Director-General Audrey…

How Innovative Farming Rescues Crises-Stricken Farmers in This Indian Village — Global Issues

How Innovative Farming Rescues Crises-Stricken Farmers in This Indian Village — Global Issues

Farmers inthe southern state of Karnataka, India, during training sessions for multi-cropfarming. The techniques have meant survival in the face of uncertain weathercaused by climate change. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (karnataka, india) Thursday, January 19, 2023 Inter Press Service KARNATAKA, INDIA, Jan 19 (IPS) – The South Indian…

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO — Global Issues

Sri Lanka must ensure compensation for victims of 2019 terrorist attacks — Global Issues

Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the former President and three other senior officials to compensate the families of the victims because they had failed to prevent the tragedy.  More than 270 people were killed in the series of explosions at churches and hotels across the island nation.  A step…

Pakistans 10 Billion Dollar Flood Funding Question — Global Issues

Pakistans 10 Billion Dollar Flood Funding Question — Global Issues

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…

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO — Global Issues

Pakistan still an ‘ongoing nightmare’ for millions of children, following major flooding — Global Issues

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…

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO — Global Issues

rights experts urge action on coerced religious conversions, child marriage — Global Issues

In their appeal to the authorities to stop the alleged abuse, the experts warned that teenagers had been “kidnapped from their families, trafficked … far from their homes (and) made to marry men sometimes twice their age”. The rights experts – who report to the Human Rights Council – cited…

Pakistani Flood Survivors Welcome Funding, But Demand Immediate Disbursement — Global Issues

Pakistani Flood Survivors Welcome Funding, But Demand Immediate Disbursement — Global Issues

Flood victims in Pakistan would like to see the funding received for Pakistan’s recovery disbursed to them urgently. Many still live in temporary accommodation after they lost their homes and family in the 2022 floods. – Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Friday, January 13, 2023 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR,…