Financing is vital for growth. Credit: Unsplash / Towfiqu Barbhuiya Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, April 04, 2023 Inter Press Service The writer is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 04 (IPS) – The…
Opinion by Hyshyama Hamin (colombo, sri lanka) Monday, April 03, 2023 Inter Press Service COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 03 (IPS) – Discriminatory family laws and policies that restrict women’s access to educational opportunities, employment, inheritance, property ownership and equal pay, are making women disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of the global…
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, April 03, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Apr 03 (IPS) – As signs of a new Cold War are fast emerging at the United Nations, the US continues its war of words with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The rivalry, which extends from…
Ines Pousadela at the launch of the CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, March 31, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Mar 31 (IPS) – As conflict and crises escalate to create human emergencies that have displaced over 100 million people worldwide, civil society’s…
Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, March 31, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar 31 (IPS) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), an organisation whose motto is ‘For democracy. For everyone’, just held its global assembly in a country with a mock parliament and not the slightest semblance of…
The open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights was established in 2014 in response to Human Rights Council resolution 26/9 with a mandate to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational…
LGBTIQ+ activists in Caracas protest outside the National Electoral Council, in charge of the civil registry, demanding enforcement of the legal statute that authorizes a change of name for trans, intersex or non-binary people. The agency has delayed compliance with the law for years. CREDIT: Observatory of Violence by Humberto…
The cumulative needs of injured patients from the war have created a medical crisis. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS Opinion by Abdo Husen (addis ababa) Thursday, March 30, 2023 Inter Press Service ADDIS ABABA, Mar 30 (IPS) – There are about 5 billion people globally who cannot access surgery. In Ethiopia, for every…
Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs shows that 2.2 million people have been affected, with 676 killed and 538 missing after Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi earlier this month. Credit: Red Cross by Charles Mpaka (sonjeke, malawi) Thursday, March 30, 2023 Inter Press Service SONJEKE, MALAWI, Mar 30 (IPS) – In Sonjeka…
Opinion by Ferran Puig (sa’ana, yemen) Thursday, March 30, 2023 Inter Press Service SA’ANA, Yemen, Mar 30 (IPS) – As Yemen enters its ninth year of war, its people are facing a humanitarian crisis of horrifying proportions. In my role as Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, I have witnessed firsthand the effects…
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