News headlines in 2020, page 4

  1. Getting Children in Lebanon Back to School Amongst Multiple Crises

    - Inter Press Service

    BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec 15 (IPS) - Education and health care were high on the agenda when the United Nations vowed to work toward a better future by setting 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be met by 2030.

  2. USA Downgraded as Civil Liberties Deteriorate Across the Americas

    - Inter Press Service

    São Paulo/ Washington DC, Dec 15 (IPS) - Few images better illustrate the recent decline in civil liberties in the United States than that of peaceful protesters near the White House being violently dispersed so Donald Trump could stage a photo-op.

  3. India: National Education Policy 2020 Could Transform Early Childhood Education If Implemented Effectively

    - Inter Press Service

    THANE, MAHARASHTRA, India, Dec 15 (IPS) - It is after almost 34 years that the central government approved the new National Education Policy 2020 on July 29, 2020. This document contains comments on the entire education system and its various recommendations are being heavily debated.

  4. Can Conservation and Development Be Balanced in Sri Lanka?

    - Inter Press Service

    COLOMBO, Dec 15 (IPS) - The Sri Lankan government recently cancelled three circulars that protected 700,000 hectares of forests, labelled Other State Forests (OSFs), which are not classified as protected areas but account for five percent of the island nation’s remaining 16.5 percent of forest cover.

  5. Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 (IPS) - Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by world leaders and experts urged governments to ensure that all COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and tests are patent-free, fairly distributed and available to all, free of charge.

  6. Helping Women to Step out of the Shadow Pandemic of Women Abuse

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Dec 14 (IPS) - The United Nations Secretary-General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign marked the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2020) at a time when COVID-19 exacerbated the conditions women operate under.

  7. Discriminatory Laws Still Holding Women Back in the Middle East

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    NEW DELHI, India, Dec 14 (IPS) - Decades of aggressive efforts to create equal opportunities for women, shatter the glass ceiling and build a more inclusive society only ends up in failure, when the key stake holders refuse to acknowledge discriminatory laws, socio-cultural and religious set ups that continue to threaten progress made by the female work force.

  8. Safe Drinking Water Should Mean Safe Collection Too: How to Reduce the Risks

    - Inter Press Service

    Dec 14 (IPS) - Globally, millions of people don’t have access to water in their home. They collect water from shared water supply points or surface water sources and physically carry water containers back home for household use.

  9. R & D Expenditure: How to Raise It and Why

    - Inter Press Service

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    CANBERRA, Australia, Dec 14 (IPS) - Economic growth is the time-tested method of raising living standards and, if not accompanied by large increases in inequality, lowering poverty. Since World War II, economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, including in South Asia.

  10. Africa Readying for Free Trade, Come January 2021

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14 (IPS) - One day in February 2020, Accra-based coffee and cocoa trader Meron Dagnew visited the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to introduce herself, even before the Secretariat was fully operational.

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