A demonstration in the city of Córdoba, capital of the province of the same name in central Argentina, in favor of legal, safe and free abortion and women’s rights. The color green has identified the movement in favor of the legalization of abortion, which was passed by Congress in late…
Opinion by Tanja Sejersen – Nicola Richards – Victoria Fan (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, June 20, 2023 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 20 (IPS) – Each year, the births of 64 million children under the age of five and deaths of 8.4 million people are invisible to governments in Asia and…
Martina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with her remodeled kitchen where a skylight was created to let in sunlight and a chimney has been installed to extract smoke from the stove where she cooks…
Young women from the Brazilian state of Bahia attend an informational campaign which also hands out menstrual hygiene products. Poverty and the lack of adequate information on this subject affect millions of girls, adolescents and adult women. CREDIT: Government of Bahia by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Friday, May 26, 2023 Inter Press…
Opinion by Kirsten Stade (st paul, minnesota, usa) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Inter Press Service ST PAUL, Minnesota, USA, May 25 (IPS) – A new study estimates that global heating will push billions of people outside the comfortable range of temperature and weather in which we have evolved. While coverage of…
According to the United Nations, the world’s population is more than three times larger than it was in the mid-twentieth century. The global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998….
Parliamentarians attending the Global Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development Toward the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit. Credit: APDA by Cecilia Russell (johannesburg) Tuesday, May 09, 2023 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, May 09 (IPS) – Parliamentarians from more than 30 countries agreed to send a strong message to the G7 Hiroshima…
Charlie Brown Opinion by Charlie Brown (lome, togo) Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Inter Press Service LOME, Togo, Apr 26 (IPS) – The writer is President, World Alliance for Mercury-Free DentistryThe Minamata Convention on Mercury, a stellar success story to date, has been favorably compared to the prototype success story for a…
UN Resident Coordinator in Indonesia Valerie Julliand plants trees in Bogor, West Java. Credit: UN Indonesia Opinion by Valerie Julliand (jakarta, indonesia) Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Inter Press Service JAKARTA, Indonesia, Apr 12 (IPS) – As Ramadan continues through next week, the world’s 2 billion Muslims will focus on the core…
Technology increasingly sits at the intersection of many aspects of our lives: how we work and learn, how we interact with the people in our lives and the world around us, and how we access and consume the products and services we use every day. Diversity in engineering and technology…
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