India’s new Chief Justice, Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud has significant challenges ahead as activists hope he will continue with his legacy. Credit: Subhashish Panigrahi and Charmanderrulez by Mehru Jaffer Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Inter Press Service Dec 14 (IPS) – India’s new Chief Justice, Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, has a significant challenge…
A young child receives vaccine drops in Pakistan, but the region has experienced an upsurgence of cases because of vaccine refusal. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS by Ashfaq Yusufzai (peshawar) Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Inter Press Service PESHAWAR, Nov 29 (IPS) – Vaccine refusal is impacting the eradication of polio in Pakistan. Pakistan…
The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. June 2022. Credit: CIAT/Neil Palmer Opinion by Alon Ben-Meir (new york) Wednesday, November 09, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Nov 09 (IPS) – The electoral defeat of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is a triumph for everyone who is concerned about the peril of climate change. Bolsonaro’s…
The 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Opinion by Azza Karam (new york) Wednesday, November 09, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Nov 09 (IPS) – In this year’s COP 27 two-weeklong summit in Egypt, which concludes November 18, a rough count indicates there will…
Colosseum at the Prayer with the Pope and the representatives of the workd’s religions. Credit: Elena L. Pasquini by Elena Pasquini (rome) Monday, November 07, 2022 Inter Press Service ROME, Nov 07 (IPS) – Arms are raised, stretched out towards the sky, holding white cards with the word “peace” written in…
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Opinion by Soraya M. Deen, Christine M. Sequenzia (los angeles / washington dc) Friday, October 21, 2022 Inter Press Service LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON DC, Oct 21 (IPS) – Eleven out of 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…
Yeshiva University can hold off on recognizing an LGBTQ student group as an official campus club as a result of a Friday order from the Supreme Court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who oversees New York cases, stayed a state court order that barred the Orthodox Jewish university from blocking the group….
Opinion by Osamu Kusumoto (tokyo) Monday, July 11, 2022 Inter Press Service TOKYO, Jul 11 (IPS) – Shinzo Abe, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan, has died. It was a murder caused by a personal grudge rather than political terrorism. And it was not a direct grudge against Mr. Abe. A…
Afghan women. Credit: Shelly Kittleson/IPS by Sania Farooqui (new delhi, india) Friday, June 17, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, India, Jun 17 (IPS) – Gynophobia is defined as an intense and irrational fear of women or hatred of women, it may be characterized as a form of specific phobias, which…
Opinion by Isheba Cornwall (mona, jamaica) Friday, June 17, 2022 Inter Press Service MONA, Jamaica, Jun 17 (IPS) – On Monday June 20, there will be an informal high-level UN meeting to mark the commemoration of the first International Day for Countering Hate Speech.Hate speech is a phenomenon that can be…
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