Shweta S Banerjee, Country Lead for India, and Syed M Hashemi, Country Advisor for India at BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative, joined members of the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, including CEO Rahul Kumar, to sign the MoU in Patna, India. Credit: BRAC UPGI by IPS Correspondent (patna, india) Monday, April 10,…
Afghan Women refugees undergoing sewing and embroidery training in Peshawar, Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Monday, April 10, 2023 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR, Apr 10 (IPS) – “I had my shop in Afghanistan but came here after the Taliban’s warning against stitching women’s clothes. Now, I am working…
Technology increasingly sits at the intersection of many aspects of our lives: how we work and learn, how we interact with the people in our lives and the world around us, and how we access and consume the products and services we use every day. Diversity in engineering and technology…
A nurse walks into a hospital ward in Janakpur in Dhanusha District in southern Nepal. Credit: UNICEF/Rupadhayay Opinion by Roopa Dhatt, Susannah Schaefer (washington dc / new york) Friday, April 07, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC / NEW YORK, Apr 07 (IPS) – As World Health Worker Week draws to…
Opinion by Robert Jenkins (new york) Thursday, April 06, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Apr 06 (IPS) – With schools now reopened around the world, countries are called to take transformative action on education financing to recover and accelerate learning for all children, especially the poorest and most marginalized. Findings…
Financing is vital for growth. Credit: Unsplash / Towfiqu Barbhuiya Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, April 04, 2023 Inter Press Service The writer is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 04 (IPS) – The…
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, April 03, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Apr 03 (IPS) – As signs of a new Cold War are fast emerging at the United Nations, the US continues its war of words with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The rivalry, which extends from…
The open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights was established in 2014 in response to Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 with a mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational…
LGBTIQ+ activists in Caracas protest outside the National Electoral Council, in charge of the civil registry, demanding enforcement of the legal statute that authorizes a change of name for trans, intersex or non-binary people. The agency has delayed compliance with the law for years. CREDIT: Observatory of Violence by Humberto…
Opinion by Ferran Puig (sa’ana, yemen) Thursday, March 30, 2023 Inter Press Service SA’ANA, Yemen, Mar 30 (IPS) – As Yemen enters its ninth year of war, its people are facing a humanitarian crisis of horrifying proportions. In my role as Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, I have witnessed firsthand the effects…
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