Inter Press Service

• Global Progress Against Child Labour “Ground to a Halt” – UN Report June 10, 2021
  Malleshwar Rao, 27, spent his early years as a child labourer in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Soon after finishing school at a local ashram, where the children of poor parents, sex workers and orphans studied, the 9-year-old would rush to a local construction site to join his parents who would be toiling in […]
  Neeta Lal
• Protecting the Nile Delta June 10, 2021
  With support from the Green Climate Fund and UNDP, Egypt is protecting its people and its economy from the devastating impacts of sea-level rise   UNDP
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• Investing in Lives & Livelihoods of India’s Women Crucial to Nation’s Full Recovery June 10, 2021
  Thousands of Indians have been affected by the latest COVID-19 outbreak. Not only those suffering from the disease, but also those who care for them. Just as with the first wave and as with countless disasters before them, women have taken on the heavy burden of caring for the sick and finding ways to meet […]
  Susan Ferguson
• From Climate Change to Covid, Are We Ready to Deal with Disasters? June 10, 2021
  In the last 20 years, disasters affected over 4 billion people. At global level we witness on average one sweeping disaster a day, the majority of which are floods and storms. From the Covid-19 pandemic to climate change, calamities are taking new shapes and sizes, infiltrating every dimension of society. From the emotional to the […]
  Bibbi Abruzzini
• Nations Pledge to Tackle Inequalities as part of New Targets to end HIV/AIDS by 2030 June 9, 2021
  Despite gains in the last few decades, global targets set out five years ago have not been met. UN officials told a High-Level Meeting on AIDS this week that among populations such as sex workers and women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, discrimination, gender-based violence and criminalisation are fuelling the epidemic.
  Alison Kentish
• Damage to Coral Reefs Hurts Fishing Communities in Central America June 9, 2021
  This article is part of IPS coverage of World Environment Day, celebrated June 5, whose theme this year is “ecosystem restoration”.
  Edgardo Ayala
• Inclusivity Is My Key to Success June 9, 2021
  Zoltán Kálmán Ambassador, Former Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies in Rome
  Zoltan Kalman
• Nigeria’s Twitter Ban Is Part of a Larger Attack on Civil Society June 9, 2021
  Four years ago, Omoregie* and his friends were arrested without cause and taken into custody. When they got to the station, Omoregie watched as the police began to beat his friends. Afraid, he began to discreetly tweet about the attacks as they took place. I and many other Twitter users could read his fears while […]
  Nelson Olanipekun
• Scream of the World: Volcanos and Earthquakes June 9, 2021
  In February the killing of the Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, in the vicinity of the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, did for a short while put the global spotlight on this troubled area, where warfare, poverty and general insecurity generate immense human suffering. On the 22nd of May, the same […]
  Jan Lundius
• The 21st Century Nuclear Arms Race June 9, 2021
  The writer is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, and Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau.
  Joseph Gerson
• Education Cannot Wait Investments Transform Children’s Lives in Somalia June 8, 2021
  Ten-year-old Sabah Abdi from Ali Isse, a small rural village on the Somaliland-Ethiopian border, scored well in her recent exams, placing third overall in her local village school of 400 students. Yet is was just three years ago Sabah spent her days helping with household chores and herding goats, rather than studying because her pastoralist […]
  Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
• Time to End Generational Injustice with a ‘Global Blue New Deal’ to Protect Oceans June 8, 2021
  Increasingly, youth are rising up to declare that they’ve had enough of the cyclical exploitation of the environment that jeopardizes their own future. Youth activism through the Global Climate Strikes and Fridays For Future protests have helped spur revolutionary policy frameworks, like the Green New Deal championed by U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. International organizations and […]
  Mark Haver and Marina Porto
• G7 Summit: Time to put Women Front & Centre of the Global Economic Recovery June 8, 2021
  The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply gender inequality remains embedded in the world’s political, social and economic systems, says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
  Fatou Haidara and Helen McEachern
• Paltry International Support for Spending Needs Sets South Further Back June 8, 2021
  With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and financing government efforts are widening the North-South gap and other inequalities once again. Developing country pandemic Developing countries are struggling to cope with their generally feeble health systems. These had been weakened by funding cuts and privatisation policies prescribed […]
  Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
• Death toll of Burkina Faso Attack Reaches 160 June 7, 2021
  On the night of Friday 4th June, a group of unidentified armed men stormed the village of Solhan in the north of Burkina Faso, shooting indiscriminately, looting the market and burning homes. A report by RFI, the French radio station said there could have been as many as 200 attackers by some accounts of survivors. […]
  Henry Wilkins
• Is the UN Fighting a Losing Battle Against World’s Corrupt Leaders? June 7, 2021
  A hilarious anecdote, recounted in the New York Times years ago, related to the widespread corruption embedded in the political culture of a Southeast Asian country where crooked politicians were willing to provide receipts every time they received a bribe—big time bribes. And in Africa, the late Mobutu Sese Seko, president of former Zaire (now […]
  Thalif Deen
• Why We Need More Women in Power June 7, 2021
  What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you read the words, women and power? The accepted wisdom is that women can be powerful, but not without the constant reference to their gender – which is often based on a set of unconscious biases towards them. Is she competent enough, effective, articulate […]
  Sania Farooqui
• The Ocean’s Silent Killer: Breaking Down Overfishing June 7, 2021
  You don’t have to look too hard to find some news network or media outlet talking about water pollution, plastic waste, CO2 emissions, and climate change. Yes, of course, our plastic bottles are blowing into the ocean and it’s all our fault. We need to start using paper straws and paper cups because we’re to […]
  Coty Perry
• India’s COVID-19 Vaccine Drive Is Excluding Millions of Citizens June 7, 2021
  In May, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) uploaded a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) related to ‘COVID-19 Vaccination of Persons without prescribed Identity Cards through CoWIN’ on its website. The SOP reiterates that the recipient of the vaccine must register on the Co-WIN portal and that the vaccinator must verify the recipient with […]
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• Infrastructure Expands in Brazil Despite Crises June 4, 2021
  Health, fiscal, environmental and political crises have not prevented Brazil from attracting private capital to expand infrastructure, according to the sector’s minister, Tarcísio de Freitas. Concessions for airports, highways, railways and port terminals, auctioned in the last two years, total 14 billion dollars in investments, the infrastructure minister announced at a press conference with some […]
  Mario Osava