Finding Ways to Feed South Africas Vast Hungry Population — Global Issues

Finding Ways to Feed South Africas Vast Hungry Population — Global Issues

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…

Violence Knows No Borders — Global Issues

Sudan violations in spotlight at UN Human Rights Council — Global Issues

The development comes after more than three weeks of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) loyal to General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. UN rights chief Volker Türk opened the meeting condemning the “wanton violence” which has brought more…

Violence Knows No Borders — Global Issues

Rights experts alarmed over Taliban use of ‘brutal’ punishments — Global Issues

The urgent call from the ten Special Rapporteurs and members of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, came in response to an announcement by the Taliban-appointed Supreme Court in favour of punishments including stoning, flogging and burying people under a wall. Women most vulnerable The de facto…

Violence Knows No Borders — Global Issues

Keep calm and respect diversity, says UN expert — Global Issues

“I am deeply concerned about increased bias-motivated incidents of harassment, threats, and violence against LGBT people, including a rampant surge in hate crimes in the UK,” said Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the human rights expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, who completed an official…

Violence Knows No Borders — Global Issues

Severe funding shortfalls could leave 200,000 Palestinians hungry — Global Issues

Unless donors meet the gap, 60 per cent of the people the agency assists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories will no longer be receiving food assistance in June, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced, adding that by August, the agency will be forced to completely suspend operations in the West…

Black Sea Initiative exports top 30 million tonnes from Ukraine, as talks continue over renewal — Global Issues

Black Sea Initiative exports top 30 million tonnes from Ukraine, as talks continue over renewal — Global Issues

That was the message conveyed by the UN Humanitarian Affairs chief, Martin Griffiths, to a meeting held on Thursday in Istanbul, to discuss the future of the Initiative, with senior official from the signatories to the deal, Russia, and Ukraine, together with the UN and Türkiye, which also mediated the…

Young Woman Ignites a 3D Printing Revolution in The Gambia — Global Issues

Young Woman Ignites a 3D Printing Revolution in The Gambia — Global Issues

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…

Amid Power Cuts in Zimbabwe, Food Preservation Made Easy by Grannies — Global Issues

Amid Power Cuts in Zimbabwe, Food Preservation Made Easy by Grannies — Global Issues

Frequent power cuts have meant that Zimbabweans have had to return to the old ways to ensure their food doesn’t spoil. Credit: Allen Meki/Unsplash by Ignatius Banda (bulawayo) Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, May 10 (IPS) – Amid silent refrigerators spawned by crippling electricity cuts, township grannies are…

Population Growth is Not Good for People or the Planet — Global Issues

Population Growth is Not Good for People or the Planet — Global Issues

According to the United Nations, the world’s population is more than three times larger than it was in the mid-twentieth century. The global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998….