Quest for Safe Water in One of Indias Most Isolated Villages — Global Issues

Quest for Safe Water in One of Indias Most Isolated Villages — Global Issues

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Simita Devi, whose daughter spent days in hospital recently suffering from typhoid caused by contaminated water, collects clean water brought to the surface by a solar pump. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (champad, india) Tuesday, July 04, 2023 Inter Press Service Champad, India, Jul 04 (IPS) – Simita…

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing — Global Issues

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While cooking on one side of her wooden tin-roofed house, Mercedes Marcahuachi describes her long day’s work to meet the needs of her household and of the soup kitchen where she serves 150 daily rations at the low price of 80 cents of a dollar, in one of the settlements…

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

A Disease of the Poor Begs For Rich Funding — Global Issues

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A public awareness banner about tuberculosis on a fence in the Hope Fountain area, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (bulawayo) Monday, July 03, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jul 03 (IPS) – The United Nations General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) to get a…

How the Security Council can Better Pursue Accountability for International Crimes Against Children — Global Issues

How the Security Council can Better Pursue Accountability for International Crimes Against Children — Global Issues

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A young refugee boy, pictured in a temporary displacement camp in Kalak, Iraq, in June 2014. Credit: Amnesty International Opinion by Janine Morna (florida usa) Monday, July 03, 2023 Inter Press Service FLORIDA USA, Jul 03 (IPS) – Around 2018, when Anwar was 14 or 15 years old, his father, a…

Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast — Global Issues

Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast — Global Issues

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Eronildes da Silva proudly stands next to a bunch of bananas on his farm, whose large size is the result, he says, of the effective fertilizer of reusing waste water. In addition to farming, he drives a school bus and builds rainwater tanks in Afogados da Ingazeira, in Brazil’s semiarid…

Celebrity Chefs Enlisted to Put Climate-Hardy Millets Back on the Menu — Global Issues

Celebrity Chefs Enlisted to Put Climate-Hardy Millets Back on the Menu — Global Issues

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Chef Fatmata Binta. The United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets to promote their cultivation. Credit: ©FAO/Chef Binta by Paul Virgo (rome) Friday, June 30, 2023 Inter Press Service ROME, Jun 30 (IPS) – Get yourself a nice big pot full of water, dice some onions and throw…

Land Beneficiaries Lament Worsening Poverty in Resettled Areas — Global Issues

Land Beneficiaries Lament Worsening Poverty in Resettled Areas — Global Issues

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People relocated to the Nakadanga Trust in Machinga District, Malawi, bemoan the lack of opportunities and schooling in the area they were relocated to live in. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS by Charles Mpaka (blantyre) Friday, June 30, 2023 Inter Press Service BLANTYRE, Jun 30 (IPS) – Located between two heavily-deforested mountains, Nakadanga…

African Women Seek to Boost Innovation and Creativity in Agribusiness — Global Issues

African Women Seek to Boost Innovation and Creativity in Agribusiness — Global Issues

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Recent trends show that African women are abandoning traditional ways of engaging in agribusiness and adopting an intellectual property approach to transform food systems on the continent. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (kigali) Thursday, June 29, 2023 Inter Press Service KIGALI, Jun 29 (IPS) – Adeline Umukunzi, a 28-year-old woman…