Opinion by Marianne Buenaventura Goldman, Reitumetse Nkoti Mabula (cape town, south africa) Tuesday, September 05, 2023 Inter Press Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sep 05 (IPS) – The Role of the New Development Bank in Monitoring Project Impacts on Communities The 15th BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa this month…
Asian Parliamentarians believe it’s important to prioritise spending on ageing and youth populations. Credit: APDA by Ranjit Devraj (new delhi) Tuesday, September 05, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, Sep 05 (IPS) – Legislators from around the world, this week, officially submitted to the Sherpa of the G20 meeting set for…
Beauty salons used to be one of the few places where Afghan women could gather without male control. Credit: Learning Together Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Inter Press Service Aug 23 (IPS) – The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is…
Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the Yellow Movement AAU, addresses the UN Security Council. CREDIT: UN Photo/Loey Felipe by Francis Kokutse (accra) Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Inter Press Service ACCRA, Aug 22 (IPS) – The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence…
Credit: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, August 18, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Aug 18 (IPS) – Civic space is deteriorating in Senegal ahead of next February’s presidential election. Recent protests have been met with lethal violence and internet and social media restrictions. Senegal’s democracy…
The #AfghanGirlsVoices Campaign is a compelling and poignant campaign developed in collaboration with ECW Global Champion, Somaya Faruqi. CREDIT: ECW by Cecilia Russell (nairobi) Monday, August 14, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Aug 14 (IPS) – Two years ago, the then 19-year-old Somaya Faruqi and the Afghan Robotic Team travelled from…
Women and girls in Kenya’s West Pokot celebrate as the government cracks down on those practising harmful Female Genital Mutilation in the area. CREDIT: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, August 09, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) – It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and…
Tatev Azizyan, a local journalist in an empty supermarket in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital. Residents have struggled with deepening shortages of food and medicine since the only road in and out of the region has been closed by Azerbaijan since December 12, 2022. Credit: Edgar Kamalyan / IPS by Anush Ghavalyan,…
Women are still woefully underrepresented in leadership positions, even in industries where women constitute the majority of workers. Credit: Patricia Grogg/IPS Opinion by Jemimah Njuki, Jocelyn Chu (new york) Friday, August 04, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Aug 04 (IPS) – Last week, there was uproar in Kenya when a…
Two pregnant girls walk through the center of the capital of El Salvador, a country with one of the highest rates of pregnancies among girls aged 10 to 14, and where, as in the rest of Central America, what prevails are conservative views opposed to the teaching of sex education…
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