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International Women’s Day, 2022 - Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow
- Inter Press Service
DUBLIN, Mar 07 (IPS) - Women are already leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Sisters Nina and Helena Gualinga of the Kichwa Sarayaku community in Ecuador work tirelessly to protect Indigenous land. Archana Soreng from the indigenous Khadia tribe in Odisha, India is a talented climate researcher and advisor to the United Nations Secretary General. Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate is encouraging a whole generation of young people to fight for their right to a safe future. There are thousands of other women and girls working tirelessly to protect our planet whose names I do not know but who deserve to be acknowledged this International Women’s Day too.
The War in Ukraine and the Spectre of Genocide
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Mar 07 (IPS) - Georg Hegel once stated: ”What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” Nevertheless, self-taught historian Vladimir Putin has learned to interpret history in his own manner. During COVID he went down in Kremlin’s archives and after studying old maps and treaties he wrote a lengthy essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, while declaring that ”the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state is an aggression directed against Russia.”
International Women’s Day, 2022 - How Bangladesh Became a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 07 (IPS) - The increased empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh over the past 10 years has been no accident.
A decade ago, not even one in four rural women could be said to be “empowered” across five key metrics, a figure that surprised even those working on the ground with the country’s poorest. By 2015, this had risen to more than two in five, or 41 per cent, with continued gains in recent years.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - To Overcome Africa’s Development Crisis, Invest in Strengthening Girls’ Power
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. It was on a visit to Lesotho that I first heard the derogatory term Mmutla – nocturnal hare. It is a word used in some southern districts to insult adolescent girls who have been forced into sexual exploitation and transactional sexual relations for survival.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Raising up Women as Light in Dark Times
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) - When I was a young girl, a friend and I spent our summers building a treehouse. We built it because our older brothers were building one and wouldn’t allow us to help them. So, we asked our parents to support us through the procurement of basic tools, collected scrap wood from the local hardware store, chose a tree, and then spent day after day puzzling beams and boards together into structure in which only people of our small size could fit.
UN relief chief outlines immediate humanitarian priorities for Ukraine
- UN News
Allowing civilians to safely leave areas under fire in Ukraine, and delivering desperately needed aid to these locations, are among immediate priorities for humanitarians, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, told the Security Council on Monday.
Can 70% of the World's Poor Celebrate International Women's Day?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) - The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of poverty, but also up to 40% of the poorest households in urban areas are headed by women.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Celebrating the Transformative Impact of Women as Non-Formal Educators
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) - Women around the world play crucial roles in education as formal educators, school staff members, and parents of students. But women are also transforming education as non-formal educators in ways that can be scaled to improve education broadly. As we celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), it’s important that this transformative role is recognized.
Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) - "Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her," says Hilda Roca, an indigenous Peruvian farmer from Cusipata, in the Andes highlands of the department of Cuzco, referring to climate change and the havoc it is wreaking on her life and her environment.
The Climate Change Shuffle: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing
- Inter Press Service
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