Financing Biggest Hurdle to Providing Children with Quality Education in Crisis Situations ECW — Global Issues

Financing Biggest Hurdle to Providing Children with Quality Education in Crisis Situations ECW — Global Issues

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ECW’s Yasmine Sherif and Graham Lang walk with UNHCR partners through Borota, where thousands of new refugees, most of them women, and children, have arrived after fleeing the conflict in Sudan. Credit: ECW by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Thursday, July 20, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 20 (IPS) –…

Ukraine War Intrinsically Linked to Sustainable Development Goals — Global Issues

Ukraine War Intrinsically Linked to Sustainable Development Goals — Global Issues

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Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba, holds up a glittery diary with testimony of the impact of the war on children. Credit: Abigail Van Neely/IPS by Abigail Van Neely (united nations) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) – The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs,…

New Research Seeks Breakthrough in Understanding Global Warming and the Ocean — Global Issues

New Research Seeks Breakthrough in Understanding Global Warming and the Ocean — Global Issues

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Youth host Jay Matsushiba, in Vancouver, participating in a beach clean-up with Tanya Otero of the Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up. Credit: Nick Hawkins/Ocean Frontier Institute by Catherine Wilson (sydney) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Jul 19 (IPS) – The Canada-based Ocean Frontier Institute is very clear about the…

Climate Justice – Is Litigation a Good Way Forward? — Global Issues

Climate Justice – Is Litigation a Good Way Forward? — Global Issues

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Opinion by Kwan Soo-Chen, David McCoy (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 19 (IPS) – For years, the concept of climate justice has been built on the understanding that countries and communities contributing the least to global warming are disproportionately bearing the impacts…

Mandela Day Reminder to Stand Witness to Human Rights Defenders — Global Issues

Mandela Day Reminder to Stand Witness to Human Rights Defenders — Global Issues

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by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jul 18 (IPS) – As human rights increasingly deteriorate, rights defenders are being violently suppressed. Abducted, detained, tortured, and humiliated, many now live one day at a time. They have been told, in no uncertain times, that anything could…

In Northern Syria, Palestinians Finance Settlements in Kurdish-Occupied Areas — Global Issues

In Northern Syria, Palestinians Finance Settlements in Kurdish-Occupied Areas — Global Issues

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An elderly woman joins a caravan of displaced people during the joint offensive by Ankara and Islamist militias against the Kurdish-Syrian enclave of Afrin, in January 2018. Only 20% of the original population remains in the occupied zone today. Credit: HH/IPS by Karlos Zurutuza, Gilad Sade (rome) Tuesday, July 18, 2023…

Climate Justice – Is Litigation a Good Way Forward? — Global Issues

Seizing the Moment for a More Resilient Asia & the Pacific — Global Issues

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Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 18 (IPS) – The world faces a disaster emergency, yet nowhere is the threat more immediate than in Asia and the Pacific. Ours is a region where climate change-induced disasters are becoming more frequent…