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Landlocked but not left behind: UN summit in Turkmenistan wraps with bold new roadmap
- UN News
The Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries wrapped up earlier Friday in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with delegates adopting a landmark political declaration aimed at speeding up sustainable development and boosting resilience in 32 nations that lack direct access to the sea.
You can run – but we will find you, militias tell terrified civilians
- UN News
Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN agencies said on Friday, while warning that communities continue to be terrorised by parties to the conflict even as they flee violence.
Israeli plan to take complete control of Gaza must stop now, says UN rights chief
- UN News
The UN’s top human rights official insisted on Friday that the Israeli Government must not pursue a complete takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Women From Landlocked Developing Countries Set Sights on Open Horizons
- Inter Press Service
AWAZA, Turkmenistan, August 7 (IPS) - “Progress towards gender equality and equity remains uneven and far too slow. One in four women in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) live in extreme poverty, and this is nearly 75 million women,” said Rabab Fatima, Secretary-General of the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries or LLDC3 ongoing in Awaza, Turkmenistan.
Adesso Basta! Enough Is Enough. Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 7 (IPS) - On August the first, the Italian daily La Repubblica published an interview with David Grossman, Israel’s most renown author and supporter of a “two-state solution”, as well as an outspoken critic of Israel’s violence against Palestinian civilians.
Africa’s ‘Land-Linked’ Nations Chart a New Trade Route to Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
AWAZA, Turkmenistan, August 7 (IPS) - Once relegated to the periphery of Africa’s economic map due to their lack of coastline, the continent’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) are now reframing their geographic constraints as gateways to opportunity.
Why Should We Ask for Angela When You Don’t Have to Ask for Alex?
- Inter Press Service
MUMBAI, India, August 7 (IPS) - It’s a quiet code with a loud message: “Ask for Angela.”
Latin America’s Electric Mobility on China’s Path
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, August 7 (IPS) - Residents near the port of Itajaí in southern Brazil celebrated the arrival of 7,292 electric and hybrid vehicles from China aboard the ship BYD Shenzhen on May 28 as a “historic event,” with unloading taking four days.
From Semei to Hiroshima: Astana Times Editor on Bringing Global Solidarity Through Journalism
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO / ASTANA, August 7 (IPS) - Eighty years ago, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left a lasting reminder to humanity of the inhuman nature of nuclear weapons. Kazakhstan, too, is a nation deeply scarred by nuclear tests conducted during the Soviet era. Having covered the activities of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in Kazakhstan—including its support for exhibitions and documentary productions on nuclear abolition in Astana—, INPS Japan recently interviewed Zhanna Shayakhmetova, editor-in-chief of The Astana Times, a leading English-language newspaper in the country that continues to convey messages of disarmament and peace to the world. In the interview, Shayakhmetova spoke about the role of religious leaders who will gather in Astana from around the world this September, the importance of passing on memories to younger generations, and the responsibility journalism holds in this endeavor.
Global Supply Chain Failures are Causing Pharmaceutical Contamination
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, August 7 (IPS) - The contamination of pharmaceutical medicines through toxic excipients is killing many and harming others. The UN agencies for health and drugs and crime warn that systemic vulnerabilities in the global supply chain have been exploited to introduce industrial-grade toxic chemicals into medicines, harming thousands of people, including children.
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