Young women from the Brazilian state of Bahia attend an informational campaign which also hands out menstrual hygiene products. Poverty and the lack of adequate information on this subject affect millions of girls, adolescents and adult women. CREDIT: Government of Bahia by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Friday, May 26, 2023 Inter Press…
Opinion by Kirsten Stade (st paul, minnesota, usa) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Inter Press Service ST PAUL, Minnesota, USA, May 25 (IPS) – A new study estimates that global heating will push billions of people outside the comfortable range of temperature and weather in which we have evolved. While coverage of…
Credit: Martín Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, May 19, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 19 (IPS) – On 7 May, Chileans went to the polls to choose a Constitutional Council that will produce a new constitution to replace the one bequeathed by…
Anniwaa Buachie. Credit: Courtesy of the film. by SWAN – Southern World Arts News (paris) Thursday, May 18, 2023 Inter Press Service PARIS, May 18 (IPS) – Some movie scenes keep replaying in one’s mind long after one has left the cinema, and this is certainly true of Moon Over Aburi,…
Nosintu Mcimeli and Bonelwa Nogemane of the Abanebhongo People with Disability (APD) started with an agroecological project to improve food security in South Africa’s Eastern Cape (left). A soup kitchen feeds the village children (right). Credit: ADP by Fawzia Moodley (johannesburg) Thursday, May 11, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 11…
Opinion by Abdoulie Badjie (banjul, the gambia) Thursday, May 11, 2023 Inter Press Service BANJUL, The Gambia, May 11 (IPS) – In the heart of The Gambia, an intrepid young woman called Fatou Juka Darbor is blazing a trail for women fuelled by her fiery passion for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering…
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 Marty Logan (kathmandu) Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, May 10 (IPS) – A new report reveals that from 2000 to 2015, the global…
Parliamentarians attending the Global Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development Toward the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit. Credit: APDA by Cecilia Russell (johannesburg) Tuesday, May 09, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 09 (IPS) – Parliamentarians from more than 30 countries agreed to send a strong message to the G7 Hiroshima…
Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 08 (IPS) – The World changes, though prejudices and misconceptions remain. In 1996, political scientist Samuel Huntington published The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, in which he predicted that people’s cultural…
Senor Robiay, cluster coordinator of Laubonu. Credit: Silvino Gomes Opinion by Jharendu Pant (penang, malaysia) Wednesday, May 03, 2023 Inter Press Service PENANG, Malaysia, May 03 (IPS) – Dr. Jharendu Pant is Senior Scientist – Sustainable Aquaculture Program, WorldFishFor Timor-Leste, as with most other islands in the Pacific, fortunes are to…
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