As India grows and develops, its economic production and energy consumption will increase. | Picture courtesy: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Opinion by R R Rashmi (new delhi) Friday, May 20, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, May 20 (IPS) – The recent IPCC report that came out in the month of March…
Two boys collect fresh bread for their families at a bakery rehabilitated by WFP in Aleppo. Credit: WFP/Jessica Lawson. May 2022. Opinion by Sinan Hatahet (istanbul) Friday, May 20, 2022 Inter Press Service ISTANBUL, May 20 (IPS) – Moscow’s decision to intervene militarily in Syria in 2015 effectively preserved the Assad…
Nothing about us, without us, was a clear message at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Durban, South Africa. These delegates were among those who drew up their own call to action at the conference. Credit: Lyse Comins/IPS by Lyse Comins (durban) Friday, May 20, 2022…
A mountainous landscape in the area of the headwaters of the Velhas River, where “barraginhas”, the Portuguese name for holes dug like lunar craters in the hills and slopes, prevent erosion by swallowing a large amount of soil that sediments the upper reaches of the river, in the southeastern Brazilian…
Tuberculosis has killed 1,5 million people in 2020 – mostly in African and Asian countries – while two million people died of COVID-19 worldwide during the same period. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS Opinion by Angelique Luabeya Kany Kany (cape town, south africa) Thursday, May 19, 2022 Inter Press Service CAPE TOWN, South…
Amar Lai, a former child labourer, is now a human rights lawyer and a trustee of the 100 Million Campaign. He was saved from child labour by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi who identified him while running an education campaign in the area where he worked alongside his parents in a…
Global gas flaring increased to 144 billion cubic metres (bcm) in 2021 from 142 bcm in 2020. It is estimated that each cubic metre of associated gas flared results in about 2.8 kilograms of CO2-equivalent emissions. Credit: public domain by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID,…
Dr Joni Musabayana, Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) says it will take strong commitments and political will to end child labour in Africa. Credit: Fawzia Moodley/IPS by Fawzia Moodley (durban) Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Inter Press Service Durban, May 18 (IPS) – With a strong commitment from governments, businesses,…
A man is tested for HIV at a health centre in Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit: UNICEF/Frank Dejongh Opinion by Eamonn Murphy, Matthew Kavanagh (washington dc) Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Inter Press Service The writers are Deputy Executive Directors of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) WASHINGTON DC, May 18…
African Union Commission Department of Trade and Industry, head of industry Houssein Guedi highlighted how 92,2 million of the world’s children entrapped in child labour live in Africa, at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Durban. Credit: Lyse Comins/IPS by Lyse Comins (durban) Tuesday, May 17,…
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