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For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance
- UN News
As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new generation is turning to culture and digital platforms to defend their lands and their future.
In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, One Woman Refuses a Life of Dependence
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, August 7 (IPS) - The Taliban’s rise to power robbed Mehrmaa of her husband, her job and her chance to live freely.
Hiroshima’s Question: Will We Continue to Live Under the Nuclear Shadow?
- Inter Press Service
HIROSHIMA, Japan, August 7 (IPS) - This year’s Hiroshima Peace Declaration did not begin with words of remembrance alone. It opened instead with what the declaration called “military invasions using nuclear weapons as tools of intimidation,” “imperious actions by major powers in violation of international law,” and the failure of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, Review Conference — for the third consecutive time — to adopt a final document.
Burkina Faso’s Cancelled Democracy
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, August 7 (IPS) - Burkina Faso’s charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should ‘forget about the question of democracy’ because ‘democracy isn’t for us’. When Traoré seized power in September 2022, ousting a leader who’d staged a coup earlier that year, he promised elections by June 2024. The junta broke that pledge, pushing any transition back to 2029. Now Traoré has confirmed he has no intention of restoring democracy. Instead, Burkina Faso’s military junta is tightening its repression, while working with neighbouring states to internationalise its dangerously undemocratic model.
The World’s Aid Workers Must Be Protected
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7 (IPS) - This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy in Duk County, South Sudan, left 17 dead and five injured. While the UN called for an immediate investigation, history suggests the victims’ families will wait indefinitely for answers.
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
- UN News
More than 2,500 years after Homer’s epic was first told, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster retelling of The Odyssey has brought the journey back to big screens worldwide. But, behind the sweeping plot is another character facing an odyssey of its own: the Mediterranean Sea.
‘Sudan is losing another generation’ to war, Mohammed warns
- UN News
More than 1,000 days of war in Sudan have left millions of children out of school, displaced or exposed to grave violations, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Friday, calling for renewed action to end the conflict.
Peacock party takes pride of place in nod to decades of turbulent history
- UN News
In a new twist on panda diplomacy, UN Geneva welcomed five young peacocks to the Palace of Nations on Friday, a gift of India that preserves a tradition of keeping the stately birds in the grounds, that predates both the global body and its ill-fated predecessor, the League of Nations.
Ebola in DR Congo: Childhood deaths rise; hopes raised over new vaccine
- UN News
More than 300 children have died in the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN said on Friday, as health experts urged trials of the only vaccine against the disease to halt further spread of the rare Bundibugyo species.
Food prices edged up in July amid heatwaves and energy price hikes
- UN News
The cost of key foods edged up last month as searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty impacted energy prices around the world.
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