Nearly every maternal death is preventable, and the clinical expertise and technology necessary to avert these losses have existed for decades. Credit: Patrick Burnett/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday, March 07, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) – The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health…
Chronic underinvestment in agriculture is a key cause of the widespread hunger experienced in 2022, according to Oxfam report. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, March 03, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 03 (IPS) – The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural…
A million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, we have lost half of the world’s corals and lose forest areas the size of 27 football fields every minute, finds WWF report. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, March 01, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 01 (IPS)…
“A child in North Syria passing by the ruins, after the earthquake hit his town.” – Credit: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) by Baher Kamal (madrid) Thursday, February 23, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Feb 23 (IPS) – While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high…
by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Feb 22 (IPS) – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II. “Across the globe, children and their families are facing a deadly mix of crises, from…
Hate speech loads the gun, misinformation pulls the trigger – And that’s the kind of the relationship that we’ve come to understand over the years. Credit: Shutterstock. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, February 17, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Feb 17 (IPS) – In this world of wars, massive weapons production,…
Industrially produced trans fat is responsible for up to 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year, according to WHO. Credit: Shutterstock. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, February 10, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Feb 10 (IPS) – The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products,…
Billionaire wealth surged in 2022 with rapidly rising food and energy profits. The report shows that 95 food and energy corporations have more than doubled their profits in 2022. Credit: Clae by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jan 25 (IPS) – Gone are those times…
War damage in Borodianka, Kyiv Oblast. Photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, January 20, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jan 20 (IPS) – As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not…
Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached 592 billion US dollars in 2021, a 1.9% increase compared with 2020 in real terms. Credit: Shutterstock by Baher Kamal (madrid) Thursday, December 22, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Dec 22 (IPS) – Day after day,…
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