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Is There Discrimination Against Women in Healthcare in India?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 05 (IPS) - In an inaugural lecture at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Amartya Sen began with a swipe at Queen Victoria who complained to Sir Theodore Martin in 1870 about "this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights'", as in her rarefied world nobody could trample upon her rights. The world has of course changed dramatically and women's rights are widely acknowledged but injustices persist.
Our concern here is with health injustices that are widely prevalent in India. These take multiple forms: female foeticide, widespread morbidity and denial of access to good quality healthcare until a critical condition develops. Our focus here is on vulnerability of women to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their limited access to good quality healthcare in India.
Women in Politics: Adornments and Witches
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Sep 04 (IPS) - Some world leaders try to prove their alpha male status by presenting attractive and submissive wives as tokens won in virile scrambles with other potent stags.
A recent example of such puerile machismo was exposed in a twitter battle between the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and his French equivalent Emmanuel Macron.
Since taking office in January, Mr Bolsonaro has railed against what he considered to be foreign meddling in Brazilian environmental politics. Wild fires raging in the Amazonian rain forest have generally been blamed on a rampant deforestation said to be endorsed by Bolsonaro´s regime.
Achieving Global Consensus on How to Slow Down Loss of Land
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 04 (IPS) - Expectation are high, perhaps too high, as the 14th Conference of the Parties (CoP 14) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) now into the third day of its two-week session being held outside the smog-filled Indian capital of New Delhi.
SME's the Main Drivers of Africa’s Food Economy
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Ghana/ELDORET TOWN, Kenya, Sep 04 (IPS) - Viola Kiptanui, a resident of Langas estate in the outskirts of Kenya's Eldoret town, has discovered a new way of life – eating only what she knows the source – thanks to a new smallholder entrepreneurship venture.
Sri Lanka Faces Major Challenges on UN’s 2030 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 04 (IPS) - On the road to sustainable development, Sri Lanka provides an interesting case study. Having overcome a three-decade domestic conflict, Sri Lanka has begun its transformation towards a sustainable and resilient society. The extreme poverty rate ($1.90 a day) dropped to 0.8 per cent in 2016. The unemployment rate is below 5 per cent since 2010.
U.N. Criticised for Link-up with Saudi Prince MBS
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - The United Nations is under growing pressure to scrap an event it is co-hosting with the private foundation of Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, who has been linked to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
They Call it Multistakeholderism. Where Does That Leave the UN?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations.
Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN's governing structure offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting actions are now corporate-led partnerships outside the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; or the Gates Foundation-sponsored Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, which is in a tug of war with the World Health Assembly on who sets health policy in developing countries, the institutional basis for global decision-making is changing.
Ensuring Fairer International Corporate Taxation
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 03 (IPS) - Large transnational corporations (TNCs) are widely believed to be paying little tax. The ease with which they avoid tax and the declining corporate tax rates over the decades have deprived developing countries of much needed revenues besides undermining public faith in the tax system.
Central Asia Has Always Been Important for Europe
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 03 (IPS) - In an interview* with Peter Burian, the current EU Special Representative for Central Asia.The EU has presented a new strategy for Central Asia. The first one has been adopted in 2007 and revised in 2015. Where do you see improvements?
Animal Welfare: Where Does India Stand?
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, India, Sep 03 (IPS) - We have the potential to lead the world in animal welfare, but the tendency to look at the issue in a vacuum has prevented this movement from being taken seriously.
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