Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the Yellow Movement AAU, addresses the UN Security Council. CREDIT: UN Photo/Loey Felipe by Francis Kokutse (accra) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service ACCRA, Aug 22 (IPS) – The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence…
Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (sydney) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Aug 22 (IPS) – Qur’an burning has become a symbol of intolerance and “Islamophobia”, especially in some Western countries. Following the public burning of a Quran in front of Stockholm’s largest mosque on June 28 during the Islamic…
Credit: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, August 18, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Aug 18 (IPS) – Civic space is deteriorating in Senegal ahead of next February’s presidential election. Recent protests have been met with lethal violence and internet and social media restrictions. Senegal’s democracy…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, August 09, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 09 (IPS) – The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been attributed to a commodity ‘super-cycle’, i.e., a price upsurge greater than what might be expected in ‘normal’ booms….
Credit: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, August 04, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 04 (IPS) – The title shouldn’t fool you: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is one of the world’s longest-ruling autocrats. A political survivor, this former military commander…
Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 24 (IPS) – At a meeting with European and Latin American leaders in Brussels this July, Brazil’s President Lula da Silva reiterated the bold commitment he had made in his first international speech as…
Transgender people often entertain at weddings and other events, but they increasingly face violent acts, especially since part of an Act ensuring their rights was recently struck down. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR, Jul 24 (IPS) – “The problems transgender people…
Credit: Eswatini Government/Twitter Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, July 21, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 21 (IPS) – Eswatini heads to the polls soon, with elections scheduled for September. But there’s nothing remotely democratic in prospect. The country remains ruled by King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, who…
by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jul 18 (IPS) – As human rights increasingly deteriorate, rights defenders are being violently suppressed. Abducted, detained, tortured, and humiliated, many now live one day at a time. They have been told, in no uncertain times, that anything could…
Opinion by Yasmine Sherif (new york) Friday, July 14, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jul 14 (IPS) – We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception. In the face of a child’s suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say…
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