News headlines in March 2019, page 3

UMEA, Sweden, Mar 26 (IPS) - Virginia Dignum is a professor at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University in Sweden. She heads the research group 'Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence'.

At this year's Davos economic forumUS executives warned that China may be winning the so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) race with Europe. In another recent article, Bloomberg pointed out that countries are rushing to not be left behind.

KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Mar 26 (IPS) - The World Bank has successfully legitimized the notion that private finance is the solution to pressing development and welfare concerns, including achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Agenda 2030.

A recent McKinsey report estimates that the world needs to invest about US$3.3 trillion, or 3.8 per cent of world output yearly, in economic infrastructure, with about three-fifths in emerging market and other developing economies, to maintain current growth.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 (IPS) - Jon Hall is Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDPLate last year the World Wide Fund for Nature released their Living Planet Report for 2018. WWF's estimates were stark: populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have, on average, declined by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014.

DUBAI, Mar 25 (IPS) - A maths and physical science teacher from an impoverished  school in Kenya's Rift Valley, Peter Tabichi, has won the one million dollar Global Teacher Prize, becoming the first teacher from Africa to clinch the prize established to honour the profession.

NEW YORK, Mar 25 (IPS) - Marcy Hersh is the Senior Manager for Humanitarian Advocacy at Women Deliver, whose Humanitarian Advocates Program elevates the voices of women, and the organizations they lead, to help ensure they have a seat at the decision-making table.

As a long-time advocate, I've been invited to speak at dozens of global conferences about the needs of girls and women in humanitarian emergencies.

Mar 25 (IPS) - The remarkable story of an Adivasi lawyer and social activist who has led peoples' movements against state development policies, and sought redress for human rights violations of his people in conflict-ridden regions of Maharashtra.

MAJURO, Mar 25 (IPS) - IPS Correspondent Stella Paul interviews DR ARTURO CUNANAN, one of the world's leading experts on leprosy and Medical Centre Chief of Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital in the Philippines.

His multiple awards and degrees aside, Dr. Arturo Cunanan is known as a people's doctor; one who has profound belief in the human rights of every person affected by Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy.

STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 25 (IPS) - I am the god of Hell Fire
and I bring you fire.
I'll take you to burn!
Fire, I'll take you to learn.
I'll see you burn!
-- Jacob Louis Plant

These lyrics are from Firethe only hit by The Crazy World of Arthur Brownwhich in 1968 sold over one million singles. Brenton Tarrant played it in his car while he triumphantly left the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. He had just gunned down around 100 unarmed worshippers and was on his way to another mosque to continue the slaughter before Friday prayers ended on 15 March. His murderous rampage finished by the Linwood Islamic Centrewhere he could not find the entrance. He shut a man and his wife, whom he encountered outside the building and then shattered a window with a hail of bullets, killing five more inside, while he shouted that everyone had to leave the mosque. A courageous shop keeper rushed out and throw a credit card reader at Tarrant, who rushed back to his car followed by the shop keeper, who shattered the windshield with a handgun he had picked up from the ground. Tarrant run away, but was almost immediately restrained by police who had been able to trace him.

BUENOS AIRES, Mar 25 (IPS) - I see five issues that will be central to implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change and achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. South-South Cooperation can offer solutions to all of them.

BUENOS AIRES, Mar 25 (IPS) - Communication can be a key tool for the development of cooperation among the countries of the global South, but the ever closer relations between them do not receive the attention they deserve from the media.