Credit: Canva via UNESCO Opinion by Giulia Ribeiro Barao, Bosen Lily Liu (paris) Wednesday, March 08, 2023 Inter Press Service The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. PARIS, Mar 08 (IPS) – In September 2020, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for…
In our region, women and girls continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV, accounting for 63% of the region’s new HIV infections in 2021, write the authors. Credit: Shutterstock Opinion by Anne Githuku-Shongwe, Eva Kiwango (johannesburg) Tuesday, March 07, 2023 Inter Press Service Anne Githuku-Shongwe is the UNAIDS Regional Support Team…
Nearly every maternal death is preventable, and the clinical expertise and technology necessary to avert these losses have existed for decades. Credit: Patrick Burnett/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday, March 07, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) – The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health…
Mercy Erhi Makpor. Credit: UNU-EGOV / Cristina Braga Opinion by Mercy Erhi Makpor (guimarães, portugal) Tuesday, March 07, 2023 Inter Press Service Guimarães, Portugal, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. The accelerating pace of digitalization has ushered humanity…
Andrea Meza Murillo Opinion by Andrea Meza (bonn) Tuesday, March 07, 2023 Inter Press Service BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. When it comes to land, gender inequalities are pervasive. Today, nearly half of the global agricultural…
Opinion by Magdalena Sepulveda (geneva, switzerland) Monday, March 06, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Switzerland, Mar 06 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. She will be called Aya. This is the name that nurses gave to the infant baby pulled…
Pakistani women peacekeepers in the audience at the National University of Science and Technology in Islamabad, where Secretary-General António Guterres delivered an address on the topic of peacekeeping. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Monday, March 06, 2023 Inter Press Service The following opinion piece is part…
Queues and frustration met the changes to the currency and withdrawal limits in Abuja. Credit: Abdullahi Jimoh/IPS by Abdullahi Jimoh (abuja) Monday, March 06, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Mar 06 (IPS) – Nigerians confronted by hardships over the scarcity of the newly redesigned naira notes in conjunction with the country’s…
Chronic underinvestment in agriculture is a key cause of the widespread hunger experienced in 2022, according to Oxfam report. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, March 03, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Mar 03 (IPS) – The data is shocking: three-quarters of African Governments have already reduced their agricultural…
Opinion by Noura Hamladji, Samuel Rizk (united nations) Friday, March 03, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) – There is no better environment for the expansion of violent extremist groups than a vacuum in state authority. It provides ideal conditions for these groups to prey on existing and…
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