Opinion by David Kode (johannesburg) Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Apr 19 (IPS) – Matiullah Wesa’s crime was to try to ensure young people got an education in Afghanistan. His recent forceful abduction by the Taliban offers the latest stark reminder that global solidarity and coherent action from…
Documents obtained by Fox News Digital show that University of Texas Southwestern medical students are being taught that gender is independent of physical structure. Fox News Digital obtained the documents via a FOIA request from Do No Harm, a national association of medical professionals that combats “woke” activism in the healthcare…
The Abortion Dream Team (from left to right Natalia Broniarczyk, Justyna Wydrzynska, Kinga Jelinska) outside the Warsaw court after Wydrzynska’s conviction. Credit: Abortion Dream Team by Ed Holt (bratislava) Wednesday, April 05, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Apr 05 (IPS) – “People want the abortion laws here liberalised. Society has changed;…
Opinion by Hyshyama Hamin (colombo, sri lanka) Monday, April 03, 2023 Inter Press Service COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 03 (IPS) – Discriminatory family laws and policies that restrict women’s access to educational opportunities, employment, inheritance, property ownership and equal pay, are making women disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of the global…
Ines Pousadela at the launch of the CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, March 31, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Mar 31 (IPS) – As conflict and crises escalate to create human emergencies that have displaced over 100 million people worldwide, civil society’s…
Opinion by Ines M Pousadela, Andrew Firmin (london / montevideo) Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON / MONTEVIDEO, Mar 29 (IPS) – Brave protests against women’s second-class status in Iran; the mass defence of economic rights in the face of a unilateral presidential decision in France; huge mobilisations to…
by an IPS Correspondent (united nations) Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 29 (IPS) – A group of UN experts* on human rights has blasted the Government of Uganda for making homosexuality punishable by death. “It is an egregious violation of human rights, the experts said, urging…
The life of women has become extremely restricted in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in August 2021. by Anonymous Friday, March 24, 2023 Inter Press Service Mar 24 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld…
On Mar. 22, 2023, dozens of people watched a live broadcast from San José, Costa Rica, on a large screen at the University of El Salvador, in San Salvador, of the open hearing of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, listening to the testimony of witnesses in the Beatriz v….
Attacks on the elderly are increasing in Malawi, often under the pretext that witchcraft is at play. Survivor Christian Mphande lived to tell her story, but there is a worrying increase in elder abuse. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS by Charles Mpaka (blantyre) Friday, March 17, 2023 Inter Press Service BLANTYRE, Mar 17…
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