Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Green Colonialism — Global Issues

Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Green Colonialism — Global Issues

Opinion by Eve Devillers (oakland, california) Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Inter Press Service OAKLAND, California, Sep 13 (IPS) – In the wake of the recent Africa Climate Summit, which convened in Nairobi from September 4-6, 2023, the world’s attention was drawn to the pressing challenges facing the African continent as it…

The Perspective of Global Governance for Achieving the SDGs<br>From the viewpoint of sociology of domination. — Global Issues

The Perspective of Global Governance for Achieving the SDGs<br>From the viewpoint of sociology of domination. — Global Issues

Sotaro Kusumoto Opinion by Osamu Kusumoto, Sotaro Kusumoto (tokyo, japan) Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Inter Press Service TOKYO, Japan, Sep 12 (IPS) –   1. SDGs and global governance Sustainable development is the challenge of how to build a society in which humanity can live with dignity in this global environment….

Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Green Colonialism — Global Issues

Global Pushback Puts Lives at Risk — Global Issues

Opinion by Dorothy Akongo – Flata Mwale – Vivian Mugarisi (kampala/lusaka/harare) Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Inter Press Service KAMPALA/LUSAKA/HARARE, Sep 12 (IPS) – Almost 30 years ago in 1994, the world witnessed a historic event as 179 nations convened on African soil, in Cairo, for the International Conference on Population and…

Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Green Colonialism — Global Issues

What Happens in the Arctic Does Not Stay in the Arctic — Global Issues

Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 12 (IPS) – While climate change is relentlessly progressing, threatening life on earth, world leaders continue to meet while planning for a future where this immense menace to human existence remains a minor item on…

Diversify American Cropping and Food Systems — Global Issues

Diversify American Cropping and Food Systems — Global Issues

The time is ripe to transform American agriculture from monoculture heavy farming and food systems to diversified cropping and food systems with a variety of crops including specialty crops. Credit: Bigstock. Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, usa) Friday, September 08, 2023 Inter Press Service URBANA, Illinois, USA, Sep 08 (IPS)…

Twenty Years on from the UN Bombing in Baghdad, What’s Changed? — Global Issues

Twenty Years on from the UN Bombing in Baghdad, What’s Changed? — Global Issues

A partial view of the exterior of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, that was destroyed by a truck bomb on August 19, 2003. Credit: UN Photo/Timothy Sopp Opinion by Khaled Mansour (new york) Friday, September 08, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 08 (IPS) – Twenty years ago this…

Safe, Regular & Orderly Migration for Inclusion and Sustainability — Global Issues

Safe, Regular & Orderly Migration for Inclusion and Sustainability — Global Issues

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2020). International Migrant Stock 2020. Opinion by Vanessa Steinmayer, Simon Graham (bangkok, thailand) Friday, September 08, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 08 (IPS) – In Asia and the Pacific, migration is again on the rise. In 2020, almost 109…

From a Nuclear Test Site to Leader in Disarmament — Global Issues

From a Nuclear Test Site to Leader in Disarmament — Global Issues

Karipbek Kuyukov is an armless painter from Kazakhstan, and global anti–nuclear weapon testing & nonproliferation activist. Credit: Jibek Joly TV Channel Opinion by Katsuhiro Asagiri, Kunsaya Kurmet-Rakhimova (astana, kazakhstan) Thursday, September 07, 2023 Inter Press Service ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sep 07 (IPS) – Exactly 32 years ago, on September 29, 1991, Kazakhstan,…

Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Green Colonialism — Global Issues

The UNs Own Relevance Is at Stake at This Years General Assembly — Global Issues

Opinion by Mandeep S.Tiwana (new york) Thursday, September 07, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 07 (IPS) – This September, world leaders and public policy advocates from around the world will descend on New York for the UN General Assembly. Alongside conversations on peace and security, global development and climate…

India Can Beat the Heat with Inclusive Fintech — Global Issues

India Can Beat the Heat with Inclusive Fintech — Global Issues

Rosina Das used a loan from Accion’s partner Annapurna Finance to keep her grocery store in Odisha, India, open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Accion Opinion by Debdoot Banerjee (mumbai, india) Thursday, September 07, 2023 Inter Press Service MUMBAI, India, Sep 07 (IPS) – Thunderstorms, flash floods, and landslides have made…