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Sri Lanka on Security Alert Long After Easter Bombings
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 03 (IPS) - Sri Lanka continues to be on a security alert long after the devastation caused by a string of bombings on Easter Sunday this year.
Raisa Wickrematunge, Editor of Groundviews, told IPS: "There has been a tightening of security. There are now security checks being carried out outside hotels and shopping malls - either through scanners or bag and body searches".
Are We Fighting a Losing Battle in the War Against Drugs?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 (IPS) - How effective is the global war on drugs?
The latest statistics released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are staggering: 35 million people across the globe currently have a substance use disorder, and as of 2017, 585,000 people have died worldwide as a result of drug use.
Paraguay Moves Towards Sustainable Commodities
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jul 02 (IPS) - Silvia Morimoto is UNDP Resident Representative in Paraguay
The statistics are alarming. By 2050, the world will require an estimated 60 percent growth in agricultural production to meet the food demand of a population of close to 9 billion people.
Financialization Undermines Real Economy
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Jul 02 (IPS) - The relationship between finance and the real economy is arguably at the root of the contemporary economic malaise. Unlike earlier acceptance of simple linear causation, recent recognition of a curvilinear relationship between finance and economic growth, implying ‘diminishing returns', has important implications.
Food From Thought
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - As the weather continues to change and land becomes degraded, the socio-economic security implications are vast. In an effort to tackle these issues, climate-smart agriculture is quickly gaining traction around the world.
U.S.-backed Kurds to Halt Child Soldier use in Syria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - The United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have struck a deal with the United Nations to stop using child soldiers across swathes of eastern Syria under their control and to release all youngsters from their ranks, the U.N. announced Monday.
Unseen and Unsafe: Violence Against Women within Migrant Families
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - Refugee and migrant women often face inescapable violence in the home. And the potential for intimate forms of violence is exacerbated by humanitarian crises and job insecurity.
Could the Election of Qu Dongyu as FAO´s General-Director be a Turning-point for Sustainable Agricultural Development?
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jul 01 (IPS) - Agriculture is the bedrock of sedentary human civilization, without it we would have no governments or nations. It was food surplus generated by agriculture that enabled people to live in cities and form regimes able to organize food production in such a manner that some community members could engage in other activities than direct food production and thus give rise to the ideologies, techniques and goods which now constitute and govern our existence.
US & Iranian Actions Put Nuclear Deal in Jeopardy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 01 (IPS) - Kelsey Davenport is director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association and Daryl G. Kimball is executive director
Iran's announcement that it may soon breach the 300-kilogram limit on low-enriched uranium set by the 2015 nuclear deal is an expected but troubling response to the Trump administration's reckless and ill-conceived pressure campaign to kill the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
We Are What We Watch
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jul 01 (IPS) - Consistent exposure to TV series with strong characters has the power to influence mental models in society and shift social norms.
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