News stories by Ambassador Walther Lichem

VIENNA, Apr 16 (IPS) - Ambassador Walther Lichem* of Austria is President Inter Press Service (IPS).

The past seventy years since the end of the second world war have been marked by profound changes in our international system. Relations between states have become more horizontally structured interactions with a rising significance of the common good articulated and pursued by newly-created international programmes and organisations.

VIENNA, Austria, Mar 07 (IPS) - In 1911, more than one million men and women attended rallies to commemorate the first International Women's Day. Demonstrators advocated for an end to gender discrimination and for the promotion of women's rights to work, vote, receive an education, and hold public office.