News headlines in November 2022

  1. Legal Recognition of East African Sign Languages Key Towards Inclusion

    - Inter Press Service

    KAMPALA, Nov 30 (IPS) - Since the onset of the Covid19 pandemic, at least two deaf people were shot and killed in Uganda by state law enforcement officers. Their ‘crime’ was being deaf and uneducated. Their inability to hear or comprehend Covid19 containment measures communicated in English led to their death.

  2. Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 (IPS) - How are the multiple shocks and crises the world is facing changing how we respond to gender-based violence? Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered high levels of violence against women and girls, the recent Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2022 (SVRI) shed some light on the best ways forward.

  3. HIV Prevention: New Injection Could Boost the Fight, But Some Hurdles Remain

    - Inter Press Service

    Nov 30 (IPS) - While the world has focused on the COVID pandemic for nearly three years, less and less attention is being paid to HIV. However, HIV is still a global problem. In 2021, according to the United Nations, 38.4 million people were living with HIV, over 650,000 died from AIDS-related illnesses, and 1.5 million became newly infected.

  4. Africas Processing Industry Holds Promise for Broader Economic Growth

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON DC, Nov 30 (IPS) - As a central pillar of African diets for thousands of years, millet has a prized position as one of the continent’s most important crops.

    And with the onset of climate change, millet offers valuable security to the continent’s smallholder farmers due to the crop’s tolerance for dry soils.

  5. Putting Nature on a Quantifiable, Ambitious Path to Recovery

    - Inter Press Service

    Nairobi, Nov 30 (IPS) - Up to 1 million species are threatened with extinction – many within decades – this includes nearly one-third of reef-forming corals, shark relatives, and marine mammals. Half of agricultural expansion occurs at the expense of forests, and 85% of wetlands that were present at the beginning of the 18th century had been lost by the year 2000, with the loss of wetlands considered to be happening three times faster, in percentage terms, than forest loss.

  6. UNESCO: French baguettes, Chinese tea ceremony, join protected heritage list

    - UN News

    Holy Week in Guatemala, traditional tea preparation in China, and the artisanal knowledge surrounding France’s iconic daily bread loaf, the baguette, are among the latest cultural practices and expressions to be recognized by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

  7. Rising inflation, falling wages threaten increased poverty and unrest: ILO

    - UN News

    Rising inflation has caused a striking decline in real monthly wages in many countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report published on Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need for policies to prevent further poverty, inequality and social unrest. 

  8. Proven solutions must be put in place to end AIDS by 2030: Guterres

    - UN News

    The UN chief is marking World AIDS Day on Thursday with a call to action to end the inequalities which are blocking progress towards stopping the pandemic, and eradicating the virus.

  9. Vaccine Refusal, Floods Impact Polio Drive in Pakistan

    - Inter Press Service

    PESHAWAR, Nov 29 (IPS) - Vaccine refusal is impacting the eradication of polio in Pakistan.

  10. Can Asia and the Pacific Get on Track to Net Zero?

    - Inter Press Service

    BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 29 (IPS) - The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change. The Nationally Determined Contribution targets of Asian and Pacific countries will result in a 16 per centincrease in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from the 2010 levels.

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