Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, February 10, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Feb 10 (IPS) – Thulani Maseko knew speaking out in Eswatini was a risky business. An activist and well-known human rights lawyer, he’d previously spent 14 months in jail for criticising the country’s lack of judicial independence. Now…
Opinion by Purnaka de Silva, Geetika Chandwani (new york) Friday, February 10, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Feb 10 (IPS) – The opioid addiction crisis in the United States is an acute public health emergency and a profound threat to national security – which is caused by the over-prescription, misuse,…
Figure 1: Proportion of population with access to clean cooking fuels and technologies (Data source: World Health Organization, via the Asia Pacific Energy Portal. Data was unavailable for New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Is., American Samoa, French Polynesia and Guam.) Opinion by David Ferrari – Sudip Ranjan Basu – Kimberly Roseberry (bangkok,…
Hydrogen (H2) is an essential component of today’s energy and industrial systems. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Adalberto Castaneda Vidal (new york) Wednesday, February 08, 2023 Inter Press Service The region is definitely taking this opportunity seriously. Over the past years, 11 countries in the region have published national hydrogen strategies. While…
Energy-efficient solar systems in the UN Compound in Timor-Leste are helping cut down costs and reduce CO2 emissions. Credit: UN Opinion by Ahmed Saleem (dili, timor-leste) Wednesday, February 08, 2023 Inter Press Service DILI, Timor-Leste, Feb 08 (IPS) – Access to energy remains a concerning challenge for many in Timor-Leste. The…
Opinion by Anis Chowdhury, Kate Lappin (melbourne and sydney) Monday, February 06, 2023 Inter Press Service MELBOURNE and SYDNEY, Feb 06 (IPS) – Australia is set to become the first country or jurisdiction to require large multinational corporations (MNCs), with a global consolidated income of at least AU$1 billion, to publicly…
by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Thursday, February 02, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb 02 (IPS) – On 25 January, roughly six weeks after being sworn in following her predecessor’s removal, Peruvian president Dina Boluarte finally recognised that elections were the only way out of political crisis. Elections were…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Thursday, February 02, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 02 (IPS) – Few policymakers ever claim credit for causing stagnation and recessions. Yet, they do so all the time, justifying their actions by some supposedly higher purpose. Now, that higher purpose…
Deforestation, along with fires, reduces the region’s forests, expands the agricultural frontier, shrinks the habitat of indigenous peoples and wildlife, destroys water sources, and brings more diseases to populated areas. CREDIT: Serfor Peru by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Inter Press Service CARACAS, Jan 31 (IPS) – The environmental…
Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (sydney) Friday, January 27, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Jan 27 (IPS) – As the year 2022 drew to an end, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned, “Developing countries face ‘impossible trade-off’ on debt”, that spiralling debt in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)…
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