What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070 — Global Issues

What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070 — Global Issues

As India grows and develops, its economic production and energy consumption will increase. | Picture courtesy: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Opinion by R R Rashmi (new delhi) Friday, May 20, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, May 20 (IPS) – The recent IPCC report that came out in the month of March…

What the Russian Invasion Means for Syria — Global Issues

What the Russian Invasion Means for Syria — Global Issues

Two boys collect fresh bread for their families at a bakery rehabilitated by WFP in Aleppo. Credit: WFP/Jessica Lawson. May 2022. Opinion by Sinan Hatahet (istanbul) Friday, May 20, 2022 Inter Press Service ISTANBUL, May 20 (IPS) – Moscow’s decision to intervene militarily in Syria in 2015 effectively preserved the Assad…

As COVID Wanes, Tuberculosis Deaths Must Become Visible — Global Issues

As COVID Wanes, Tuberculosis Deaths Must Become Visible — Global Issues

Tuberculosis has killed 1,5 million people in 2020 – mostly in African and Asian countries – while two million people died of COVID-19 worldwide during the same period. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS Opinion by Angelique Luabeya Kany Kany (cape town, south africa) Thursday, May 19, 2022 Inter Press Service CAPE TOWN, South…

New Medicines May Help End AIDS — but High Prices & Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out — Global Issues

New Medicines May Help End AIDS — but High Prices & Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out — Global Issues

A man is tested for HIV at a health centre in Odienné, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit: UNICEF/Frank Dejongh Opinion by Eamonn Murphy, Matthew Kavanagh (washington dc) Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Inter Press Service The writers are Deputy Executive Directors of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) WASHINGTON DC, May 18…

No Quick End to Children Trapped in Tobacco Production — Global Issues

No Quick End to Children Trapped in Tobacco Production — Global Issues

Children working on tobacco farms in Chipangali District in Eastern Province of Zambia. Credit: Brenda Chitindi, British Medical Journal, 2015. Opinion by Judith Mackay, Leonce Dieudonne Leonce (hong kong / lome) Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Inter Press Service HONG KONG / LOME, May 17 (IPS) – Despite World Day Against Child…