Opinion by Sudip Ranjan Basu – Juan Rodrigo – Alexey Kravchenko (bangkok, thailand) Friday, March 17, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 17 (IPS) – The impacts of the climate crisis are acutely felt in the Pacific region. In recent years, the region has been hit by devastating climate events,…
Bad roads in rural Zimbabwe mean the community have to rely on donkey carts and jalopy cars as bus operators are not prepared to travel there. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS by Jeffrey Moyo (mwenezi, zimbabwe) Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Inter Press Service MWENEZI, Zimbabwe, Mar 15 (IPS) – From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway…
Opinion by Armand Houanye (ouagadougou, burkina faso) Tuesday, March 14, 2023 Inter Press Service OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 14 (IPS) – The writer is Regional Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership in West Africa (GWP-WA)Burkina Faso’s interim President Captain Ibrahim Traoré spoke late last year of the conflicts that are…
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…
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…
The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (6-17 March) gets underway at UN headquarters in New York . Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías Opinion by Dana Abed (beirut) Friday, March 10, 2023 Inter Press Service The writer is Global Campaigns Strategist for Gender Rights and Justice at Oxfam…
Opinion by Sudip Ranjan Basu, Sanjay Srivastava (bangkok, thailand) Friday, March 10, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 10 (IPS) – Two destructive Category 4 tropical cyclones, Judy and Kevin, and an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude impacted over 80 per cent of the Vanuatu population from 1 to 3 March…
Opinion by Vidya Diwakar (brighton, uk) Thursday, March 09, 2023 Inter Press Service BRIGHTON, UK, Mar 09 (IPS) – This year marks the halfway point— eight years in and eight years out— of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty and reduce inequalities. Yet we are a long way off…
Credit: Equality Now, Millicent Kwambai Opinion by S. Mona Sinha (new york) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service The writer is Global Executive Director at Equality Now. The following opinion piece is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. NEW YORK, Mar 08 (IPS) – The…
Credit: Kyrgyz Space Program Opinion by Achim Steiner (united nations) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service The following opinion piece is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) – Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tremendous power of technology…
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