Differently-Abled Farmers Integrate Digital Technology, Aim To Set Example For Others — Global Issues

Differently-Abled Farmers Integrate Digital Technology, Aim To Set Example For Others — Global Issues

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Rawan Bo-khuntod (left) and another farmer planting seedlings. Credit: Pattama Kuentak/IPS by Pattama Kuentak (khlong song, thailand) Wednesday, July 06, 2022 Inter Press Service KHLONG SONG, Thailand, Jul 06 (IPS) – Hidden in Pathumthaini province just outside of Bangkok, 0.24 hectares of land adjacent to Seangsan temple has been turned into…

Tedros urges Pfizer to make oral COVID antiviral available more widely — Global Issues

Tedros urges Pfizer to make oral COVID antiviral available more widely — Global Issues

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s appeal comes as confirmed coronavirus cases jumped nearly 30 per cent in the past two weeks, with increased infections in four out of six regions of the world. Agreeing terms “Our organizations are still trying to finalize with Pfizer the appropriate terms and conditions for low and…

Rights Groups Question ‘Pregnancy Register’ for Polish Women — Global Issues

Rights Groups Question ‘Pregnancy Register’ for Polish Women — Global Issues

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by Ed Holt (bratislava) Tuesday, July 05, 2022 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jul 05 (IPS) – Women’s rights groups fear a new legal provision in Poland requiring doctors to collect records on all pregnancies could create what they have described as a ‘pregnancy register’ to monitor whether women are having abortions….

Tedros urges Pfizer to make oral COVID antiviral available more widely — Global Issues

Animals are Core to Pandemic Prevention We Must Strengthen Their Defences — Global Issues

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Opinion by Carel du Marchie Sarvaas (brussels) Tuesday, July 05, 2022 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Jul 05 (IPS) – The writer is executive director of HealthforAnimals, the global animal health association   World Zoonoses Day, which will be commemorated on July 6, celebrates the success of the first vaccine which was…

Tedros urges Pfizer to make oral COVID antiviral available more widely — Global Issues

B.A4 and BA.5 variants spur 20 per cent rise in cases — Global Issues

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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in his weekly briefing to journalists that the global figure overall remains “relatively stable”, but nobody should be under any illusion, that the coronavirus is on the way out. “#COVID19, driven by BA.4 and BA.5 in many places, cases are on the rise in…

Tedros urges Pfizer to make oral COVID antiviral available more widely — Global Issues

Safer roads, a global development challenge for all: Senior UN official

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Every 24 seconds someone is killed in traffic, making safety on the world’s roads a global development challenge for all societies, especially for the most vulnerable, a senior UN official has said, ahead of the first ever High-level General Assembly Meeting on Improving Road Safety.   Read the full story, “Safer…

Tedros urges Pfizer to make oral COVID antiviral available more widely — Global Issues

Older Persons as Agents of Development — Global Issues

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Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 29 (IPS) – Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific: they work in agricultural fields producing our food supplies, peddle their wares as street vendors, drive tuk-tuks and buses, exercise in…

What You Need to Know about the US Supreme Court Abortion Decision — Global Issues

What You Need to Know about the US Supreme Court Abortion Decision — Global Issues

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A half-century of reproduction rights upended by the Supreme Court. Credit: Greenpeace. Opinion  boston, usa Monday, June 27, 2022 Inter Press Service BOSTON, USA, Jun 27 (IPS) – After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs…