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“A Question of Life or Death”
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Apr 18 (IPS) - The mining industry is one of the world's most dangerous industries. Globally, the death toll is at least 14,000 workers per year. But how many lives are actually lost is something that neither trade unions, national governments or the United Nations know.
Climbing the Coconut Value Chain in the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
PORT VILA, Apr 18 (IPS) - Josephine Latu-Sanft is Senior Communications Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat.
In the Pacific, coconut is king. Known as the ‘tree of life’, locals make use of every part of the tree to survive – the fruit for eating, husks for fuelling fires, fronds for making multiuse baskets, and the trunk for building houses.
Lessons From China: Fostering Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 18 (IPS) - As China has moved from a poor isolated country to a major player in the world economic and political sphere, developing countries need to learn how to engage.
'You Cannot Muzzle the Media': Nigerian Journalists on Press Freedom under Buhari
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 17 (IPS) - Jonathan Rozen is Africa Research Associate at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
When Nigeria's incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari won re-election this year, he campaigned (as he did in 2015) on an image of good governance and anti-corruption. Billboards in the capital, Abuja, bore the smiling faces of the president--who first led Nigeria as military ruler from 1983-1985--and his vice-president Yemi Osinbajo, and called for voters to let them "continue" their work and take the country to the "Next Level."
Pakistan’s Battle Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
ISLAMABAD, Apr 17 (IPS) - Pakistan, which has been listed as the 7th most vulnerable country affected by climate change, is now seriously tackling the vagaries of weather, both at the official as well as non-official level.
Pursuant to an initiative launched by the Pakistan Parliament's Upper House, the Senate, which specially entrusted a sub-Committee of the Standing Committee on Climate Change to focus on "Green and Clean" Islamabad, media, civil society and students have taken up the cudgels on combating climate change.
Nicaraguans “Will Not Be Silenced”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17 (IPS) - A year since Nicaragua spiralled into a socio-political crisis, human rights leaders have called on the country to refrain from violence and uphold the human rights of its citizens.
U.S. Needs to Shift to More Sustainable Agriculture—As Do All Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 17 (IPS) - Water supply has long been a key issue in California. Today it is no less critical, especially given the years of drought that California is experiencing, lending additional impetus to assessing the impact of agriculture on water.
Ancient Rome Offers Lessons on the Importance of Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 16 (IPS) - Anthony Annett is an assistant to the director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Joshua Lipsky is a senior communications officer in the IMF's Communications Department.
Sustainable development encapsulates the idea that material progress must always go hand in hand with social inclusion and respect for the environment.
Why the Prosecution of Julian Assange is Troubling for Press Freedom
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 16 (IPS) - Alex Ellerbeck* is North America Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists & Avi Asher-Schapiro* is North America Research Associate
After a seven-year standoff at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, British police last week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange--a development press freedom advocates had long feared.
Q&A: Achieving “Togetherness”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 (IPS) - This article is part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs), which was the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS, and which took place in Belgrade, April 8-12.Increasingly facing restrictions and assault, civil society from around the world have come together to celebrate and promote people power.
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