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Championing Social Changes: A Tale of Two Women
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Spain, Jun 11 (IPS) - Karessa Ramos is Social Media Data Analyst for BBVA Microfinance Foundation based in Madrid.
This is the story of two women who are positively transforming social norms in their respective societies, as part of the global movement towards gender equality.
A Journey from a Small-Scale Farm to International Stage
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 10 (IPS) - Chinasa Asonye is CEO of Chileofarms, a women's farming collective.
As a wife and mother in Nigeria who wanted to support my family and my community, I began my own farm in 2006. When I began, I never could have dreamed that just cultivating the earth would someday lead to my meeting government leaders, and traveling to meet other women from around the world doing their part to make a difference in their own communities.
UN Says Kyrgyz Journalist Should be Freed
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 10 (IPS) - Gulnoza Said* is Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Europe and Central Asia
On a recent morning in Bazar-Korgon, southern Kyrgyzstan, Khadicha Askarova was giving hasty instructions to her daughter about what needed to be packed.
Venezuelans Left Without Assistance in Washington
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - Venezuelans in the city of Washington D.C., in the United States, are currently without consular protection as access to their country's embassy has remained unstable since April.
OGP-APRM Collaboration A Positive Step for Good Governance in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 07 (IPS) - When two high profile governance initiatives strategically collaborate, the expected intent is to effect significant outcomes. Thus, the universe of democratic governance – lately buffeted by adverse winds of nationalism, intolerance and other threats – should take a keen note of the memorandum of understanding between Open Governance Partnerships (OGP) and Africa's flagship governance programme, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), sealed on the sidelines of the just concluded 6th Convening of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), in Ottawa, Canada.
Restoring Our Degraded Planet
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 07 (IPS) - On the 1st of March 2019, we saw one of the rare moments in history when the entire world comes together and agrees on a joint way forward.
The United Nations General Assembly recognized the urgent need to tackle the compounded crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss, and passed a resolution to proclaim 2021-2030 as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
With the aim to restore at least 350 million hectares of degraded landscapes by 2030 – an area the size of India – the UN Decade is a loud and clear call to action for all of us.
And it is a great opportunity for the UN-REDD Programme and its partner countries to build on 10 years worth of relevant experience with safeguards, impactful policies and measures, and attracting private and public investments.
Mothers in the US Are Dying: What Are We Doing to Save Them?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jun 07 (IPS) - Juan Pablo Segura is Co-founder of Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics.
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is the highest of any developed country – and the rate is rising. The US is currently the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world.
Empower Ocean Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 07 (IPS) - Our oceans play a major role in everyday life, but they are in grave danger. To protect the ocean, we must look to a crucial, largely overlooked component: gender.
Afghan Schools Left Unprotected by Government & International Community
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - Attacks on Afghan schools tripled between 2017 and 2018, according to a UNICEF report released last week: from 68 attacks to 192 in 2018. This figure seems unlikely to decrease as the Afghan government prepares to use schools once again for political activity in the upcoming election.
What Standardised Testing Doesn't Tell Us About Learning
- Inter Press Service
THANE, MAHARASHTRA, India, Jun 06 (IPS) - When we look at learning outcomes for children, we only look at standardised tests, ignoring any indigenous knowledge, language, or problem solving strategies they might have.
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