Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 08 (IPS) – The World changes, though prejudices and misconceptions remain. In 1996, political scientist Samuel Huntington published The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, in which he predicted that people’s cultural…
Opinion by Yasmine Sherif (new york) Monday, May 08, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, May 08 (IPS) – A civilian student named Saber was caught in the crossfire in Khartoum. He had two choices: either flee and lose everything; or die. But within a moment his option to choose was…
Opinion by Alon Ben-Meir (new york) Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Apr 11 (IPS) – The resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the Saudis’ diplomatic overtures toward Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, are part and parcel of the Saudis’ overall reassessment of their geostrategic…
Egypt plans to sell shares in 32 state-owned businesses, including three banks. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS by Hisham Allam (cairo) Thursday, April 06, 2023 Inter Press Service Cairo, Apr 06 (IPS) – Egypt intends to sell shares in 32 state-owned businesses within a year, including three banks, two military-owned businesses, and numerous…
Opinion by Malik al-Abdeh, Lars Hauch (london) Wednesday, April 05, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Apr 05 (IPS) – Europe’s current approach to facilitating refugee returns and containing new arrivals from Syria is based on wishful thinking. Europeans have come to terms with the fact that a political settlement for Syria’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…
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…
Building renewables plants across the Global South is a preferable alternative to generate fewer emissions — but the international community has to date been unwilling to provide the substantial funding needed to construct this type of additional generation capacity at the level developing countries require. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS Opinion by…
Opinion by Shivan Fazil, Alaa Tartir (stockholm, sweden) Friday, March 24, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Mar 24 (IPS) – Over the past two decades Iraq has been affected by several waves of intense conflict and violence. The 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United…
Delegates at the Arab and Asian Parliamentarians’ Meeting to Follow-Up on ICPD25 Commitments: Addressing Youth Empowerment and Gender-Based Violence, held in Jakarta, Indonesia held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Credit: APDA by Cecilia Russell (johannesburg) Monday, March 13, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Mar 13 (IPS) – Child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV), sexuality…
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