News headlines in 2020, page 101

NEW YORK, Mar 03 (IPS) - This International Women's Day, 25 years after we first heard it declared that "women's rights are human rights" at the historic Beijing 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, we need to take the space and time to reflect on just how far we've come – and just how much more work there is to do.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - International Women's Day, March 8 2020 - Twenty-five years ago, thousands of representatives adopted the Beijing Declaration, one of the most progressive universal agreement to advance women's rights.

QUITO, Ecuador, Mar 02 (IPS) - Inclusion of women in political processes is one of the key ingredients of sustainable peace.

KESERWAN, Lebanon, Mar 02 (IPS) - Women were at the forefront of Lebanon's 2019 ‘October Revolution'. Beyond the iconic images of their participation, it seems that by women linking equity in politics to the broader issues of mismanagement of corruption paid off - although activists say there is a long road ahead.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (IPS) - The deadly coronavirus COVID-19, which is spreading across China, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Italy, the Philippines-- along with new cases in Asia, Western Europe and the Middle East-- has claimed one of its first casualties at the United Nations.

NEW DELHI, Feb 28 (IPS) - Paradoxically, when the number of people suffering from undernourishment or hunger has risen in the world, so, too, have those afflicted by overweight and obesity.

Latin America's second largest economy, Mexico, for instance, is currently battling one of the world's largest epidemics of obesity and its success is bound to be emulated by countries of the South.

The numbers involved are staggering. The director-general of the National Institute of Public Health, Dr Juan Rivera told the Financial Times that "seventy five percent of adults and 35 percent of children and adolescents are overweight or obese… The State has a duty to protect public health."

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (IPS) - Just a month since the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus a public health emergency, it is now taking steps to contain misinformation being spread about the disease. Globally, there have been more than 82,000 cases of Coronavirus, which has claimed 2,800 lives -- the majority being in China, where the disease has been traced to.

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, USA, Feb 28 (IPS) - Souylemane Samb sits under a crowded tent on a hot Senegalese day. He wears a canvas vest with Trees for the Future printed across the back.

CARACAS/BOGOTA/BRUSSELS, Feb 28 (IPS) - Power in Venezuela is slipping away from state institutions and concentrating in the hands of criminals, guerrillas and other non-state actors. Any new negotiations between government and opposition must consider how to defang these armed irregulars, who might otherwise scuttle an eventual settlement.

MILAN, Italy, Feb 27 (IPS) - Hello! Are you Italian?
No, I'm from Nepal.
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Kaji Bista is the staff manager of the Ev-K2-CNR's innovative Pyramid International Laboratory/Observatory (known as the Italian Pyramid) at 5,050 m a.s.l. located in Lobouche.