ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif launches the Multi-Year Resilience Programme in Yirol, South Sudan. The three-year programme, delivered by Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Finn Church Aid, in close conjunction with the Ministry of General Education and Instruction and other partners, will reach at least 135,000 crisis-affected…
Lucineide Cordeiro loads manure from her two oxen and two calves into the “sertanejo” biodigester that produces biogas for cooking and biofertilizer for her varied crops on the one-hectare agroecological farm she manages on her own in the rural municipality of Afogados da Ingazeira, in the semiarid ecoregion of northeastern…
The Destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine has left thousands displaced and disastrous impacts on the environment. Credit: Ukraine Red Cross/Twitter by Ed Holt (bratislava) Friday, June 23, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jun 23 (IPS) – As well as creating a humanitarian crisis, the destruction of the Nova…
Opinion by Marianne Buenaventura (paris) Friday, June 23, 2023 Inter Press Service PARIS, Jun 23 (IPS) – As the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact unfolds in Paris on 22-23 June, Forus, a global network representing over 22,000 civil society organisations across Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Pacific,…
Opinion by Peter Horn (london) Friday, June 23, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jun 23 (IPS) – Long before Hollywood highlighted the dangers of commercial fishing in The Perfect Storm, Deadliest Catch and other programming, governments around the world knew that this was one of the most hazardous jobs, killing thousands…
Opinion by Andrew Firmin (london) Friday, June 23, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jun 23 (IPS) – The violence keeps coming in Myanmar, under military rule since February 2021. The junta stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, with evidence of systematic use of killings, rape, torture and other…
Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right Vox party. The party could soon be in government, after the 23 July 2023 general elections. Credit: Shutterstock by Baher Kamal (madrid) Thursday, June 22, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jun 22 (IPS) – The abuse of human rights has sharply increased with the steady…
Yohei Sasakawa, WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, speaks at the two-day Bergen International Conference on Hansen’s Disease. The conference coincided with the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Mycobacterium leprae by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Credit: Thor Brødreskift/Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Thursday, June 22,…
Paraquat is currently banned in over 67 countries, including China, the EU, and Brazil. In the US, it’s labelled as a restricted-use substance, meaning that farmworkers are still allowed to spray it on crops as long as they receive proper EPA training and certification. Credit: Atraxia Law Opinion by Miguel…
The UN General Assembly in session. Credit: UN Photo Opinion by Florian Krampe, Adam Day (stockholm, sweden) Thursday, June 22, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jun 22 (IPS) – The wildfires raging in Canada are yet another reminder that climate change is already having an impact on all our lives….
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