Solidarity and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War — Global Issues

Solidarity and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War — Global Issues

UN Security Council Meets on Maintenance of Peace and Security of Ukraine. October 2022. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe by Joseph Gerson (new york) Thursday, November 03, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Nov 03 (IPS) – On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was…

the Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders — Global Issues

the Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders — Global Issues

Andrew Anderson, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders opens the Dublin Platform at Dublin Castle on 26 October 2022. Credit: Kamil Krawczak for Front Line Defenders Opinion by Andrew Anderson (dublin, ireland) Wednesday, November 02, 2022 Inter Press Service DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov 02 (IPS) – Before she was murdered in Honduras…

Mexican Environmental Prosecutor’s Office Dodges Charges against Mayan Train — Global Issues

Mexican Environmental Prosecutor’s Office Dodges Charges against Mayan Train — Global Issues

The laying of the Mayan Train along 1500 kilometers through five states in the south and southeast of Mexico, mostly through the Yucatan Peninsula, will damage the fragile jungle ecosystem, with the removal of vegetation and animal species. The photo shows an area cleared of vegetation near the municipality of…

Artisanal Miners Ruining Already Diminishing Forests in Zimbabwe — Global Issues

Artisanal Miners Ruining Already Diminishing Forests in Zimbabwe — Global Issues

Artisanal miners are cutting down trees to process gold and climate change experts are concerned about the forests. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS by Jeffrey Moyo (mazowe, zimbabwe) Saturday, October 29, 2022 Inter Press Service MAZOWE, Zimbabwe, Oct 29 (IPS) – With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts…

Migration for Many Venezuelans Turns from Hope to Nightmare — Global Issues

Migration for Many Venezuelans Turns from Hope to Nightmare — Global Issues

Venezuelan migrants stranded in Guatemala after their journey to Mexico was cut short by new restrictions issued by the United States. Most of them, unable to afford to return to their home country, await possible humanitarian return flights. CREDIT: IMG by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Friday, October 28, 2022 Inter Press Service…

ECW’s Yasmine Sherif Asks Donors to Redouble Efforts for DRC Displaced Children — Global Issues

ECW’s Yasmine Sherif Asks Donors to Redouble Efforts for DRC Displaced Children — Global Issues

ECW director Yasmine Sherif announced US$2 million in new funding for children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, with conflicts, displacements, the climate crisis, COVID-19, and other epidemics such as Ebola disrupting development gains, as many as 3.2 million children (aged 6-11) are out of school, so even more…

What Does it take to Build a Culture of Equality & Inclusion at the UN? Reflections from Inside a Change Process — Global Issues

What Does it take to Build a Culture of Equality & Inclusion at the UN? Reflections from Inside a Change Process — Global Issues

Opinion by Mumtaz Mia, Juliane Drews (geneva) Friday, October 28, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Oct 28 (IPS) – The organisational is personal. Every day since the two of us were asked back in 2020 to co-lead the process of culture transformation at UNAIDS, the United Nations organisation which drives global…

A People No Longer Willing to Accept Military Rule — Global Issues

A People No Longer Willing to Accept Military Rule — Global Issues

Dusk approaches in Yangon, Myanmar. Credit: Unsplash/Alexander Schimmeck Opinion by Noeleen Heyzer (united nations) Thursday, October 27, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 (IPS) – The political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar continues to take a catastrophic toll on the people, with serious regional implications. More than…

Time for ‘concrete action’ by international community to hold Iran’s security forces to account — Global Issues

Time for ‘concrete action’ by international community to hold Iran’s security forces to account — Global Issues

Amid protests sparked by the death in custody last month of Mahsa Amini following her arrest by so-called “morality police”, Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman, told journalists in New York that since then, many in the UN human rights sphere had made “very strong calls for independent, impartial investigations”, with no response…

What Does it take to Build a Culture of Equality & Inclusion at the UN? Reflections from Inside a Change Process — Global Issues

UN expert — Global Issues

“For over 55 years, the Israeli military occupation has prevented the realisation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people, violating each component of that right and wilfully pursuing the ‘de-Palestinianisation’ of the occupied territory,” said Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian…