Nuclear Test. Credit: United Nations by Baher Kamal (madrid) Monday, September 26, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Sep 26 (IPS) – A Mexican joke goes: “I kill people for money. But you are my best friend, so I will kill you for nothing.” This seems to be the dominating thinking of…
Opinion by Anwarul K. Chowdhury (new york) Monday, September 26, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 26 (IPS) – Just a week ago, the international community commemorated the adoption of the United Nations Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace, a monumental document that transcends boundaries, cultures,…
A family evacuated from the floods has not received the promised tents or mosquito nets. Credit: Altaf Hussain Jamali/IPS by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi) Sunday, September 25, 2022 Inter Press Service Karachi, Sep 25 (IPS) – Last week, for at least six days, hundreds of flood-affected villagers from around the outskirts of…
Félix Morffi, an 84-year-old retiree, shows a self-made solar heater and solar panels installed on the roof of his house in the municipality of Regla in Havana. His hope is that his house will soon become an experimental site for the use of renewable energies and that students will learn…
Lalita Roy now has access to clean water and also provides a service to her community by working as a pani apa (water sister), looking after the community’s rainwater harvesting plants. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS by Rafiqul Islam (khulna, bangladesh) Friday, September 23, 2022 Inter Press Service KHULNA, Bangladesh, Sep 23 (IPS)…
Ten of the world’s worst climate hotspots have suffered a 123 percent rise in acute hunger over just the past six years, according to a new report from Oxfam. Credit: FAO by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, September 23, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Sep 23 (IPS) – Have you eaten today…
Opinion by Ruth Loftus, Michael Alexander (london / edinburg) Friday, September 23, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON / EDINBURG, Sep 23 (IPS) – As the devastating images of flooding in Pakistan went round the world and the country declared a state of emergency, some 4,000 miles away in Stockholm, delegates had…
Rodrigo Reyes, 18, was forced to drop out of school in 2020, because his family could not afford to pay for the internet or electronic devices that would allow him to attend class online, just when he was about to finish high school and was thinking of studying mechanics, his…
XR Red Rebels at a climate protest in Rome. Credit: Paul Virgo/IPS. by Paul Virgo (rome) Thursday, September 22, 2022 Inter Press Service ROME, Sep 22 (IPS) – Radical climate groups undeterred by risks and unpopularity as long as message gets acrossBlocking metros and highways in rush-hour traffic to stop commuters…
The Pacific Community’s Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees gene bank conserves more than 2,000 varieties of trees and crops in the Pacific Islands. Credit: Pacific Community by Catherine Wilson (sydney) Thursday, September 22, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Sep 22 (IPS) – Safeguarding plentiful, nutritious supplies of food for the…
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