Child labour survivor Selimatha Dziedzorm Salifu (right) and her rescuer Andrews Tagoe (left), deputy general secretary of the General Agricultural Workers’ Union of TUC, who met her on a fishing beach in Ghana. Credit: Lyse Comins/IPS by Lyse Comins (durban) Friday, May 27, 2022 Inter Press Service DURBAN, May 27 (IPS)…
Community members in Sowripalayam, outside Coimbatore, receive a meal from No Food Waste, a GFN-supported food bank in India. Credit: The Global Food Banking Network/Narayana Swamy Subbaraman Opinion by Lisa Moon (chicago, usa) Friday, May 27, 2022 Inter Press Service CHICAGO, USA, May 27 (IPS) – For months, the specter of…
Women attend an event on solutions for implementing gender-responsive climate action at the United Nations in 2019. Credit: UN Women/Ryan Brown. by Juliet Morrison (toronto) Friday, May 27, 2022 Inter Press Service Toronto, May 27 (IPS) – While the climate crisis affects virtually every aspect of life, its impacts are not…
Around 4000 high school students walked out of school and marched to the Minnesota capitol to demand that legislators make changes to gun control laws. 2018-03-07 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue Opinion Thursday, May 26, 2022 Inter Press Service The three…
Samuel Sasu Adonteng’s voice was one of many young voices heard during the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour. He believes the inclusion of the youth means there are better chances that the campaign to end the scourge will succeed. Credit: Fawzia Moodley/IPS by Fawzia Moodley (durban) Thursday,…
It is estimated that more than one third of the European Union will be under “high water stress” by the 2070. Credit: Bigstock by Baher Kamal (madrid) Thursday, May 26, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, May 26 (IPS) – So busy as they are with strengthening military alliances and devoting billions…
Wars and conflicts have pushed more than 139 million people in 24 countries into acute food insecurity. Credit: FAO Opinion by Mario Lubetkin (rome) Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Inter Press Service ROME, May 25 (IPS) – This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General at FAOIf the war in Ukraine,…
George Pagoulatos Opinion by George Pagoulatos (athens, greece) Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Inter Press Service ATHENS, Greece, May 25 (IPS) – Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has sparked a new introspection in the West. A number of commentators, most of them writing from the US and the UK, have come up…
Nigerians should not be pushing against global COVID-19 vaccine inequity amid widespread looting of the national treasury. Credit: UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye Opinion by Ifeanyi Nsofor (abuja) Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Inter Press Service ABUJA, May 24 (IPS) – Nigeria’s accountant-general, the administrative head of the country’s treasury, has been arrested by the Economic and…
A group of Farmacoop workers stand in the courtyard of their plant in Buenos Aires. Members of the Argentine cooperative proudly say that theirs is the first laboratory in the world to be recovered by its workers. CREDIT: Courtesy of Pedro Pérez/Tiempo Argentino. by Daniel Gutman (buenos aires) Tuesday, May 24,…
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