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Freshwater Canada’s Dirty Water Secret
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 04 (IPS) - Marcos Orellana is the environment and human rights director at Human Rights Watch.
While residents across Prince Rupert, British Columbia are once again able to get safe drinking water from their taps, the boil-water advisory lifted there in late January should not be forgotten. Canada is a freshwater-rich country, but the time for complacency on essential water issues has long passed. Most people living in Canada have access to safe water. But drinking water advisories in the country about unsafe water have been concentrated in First Nation communities.
Latin America Resets Its Strategy against Femicides
- Inter Press Service
RÍO DE JANEIRO, Apr 04 (IPS) - Several initiatives are seeking to strengthen the fight against femicides in Latin America, a region which, despite growing popular mobilisation and pioneering legislation against gender-based murders, still has the world's worst rates in what has been described as a "silent genocide," says U.N. Women.
Invested in Gender Diversity
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 04 (IPS) - RAKHI KUMAR is a senior managing director and head of ESG Investments and Asset Stewardship at State Street Global Advisors.*
Across the investment industry, asset owners and asset managers push to enhance gender diversity at all leadership levels
Ambitions Are Affordable for Asia and the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 04 (IPS) - Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Three years of implementation of the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific shows the region has some catching up to do.
Despite much progress, the region is not on track to reach the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We are living in a time of booming prosperity, yet many are getting left behind. Basic needs, such as the freedom for all from hunger and poverty, ill-health and gender-based discrimination, and equal opportunity for all are elusive. Economic, social and planetary well-being has a price tag. Calculations by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) show that it is mostly affordable for the region.
The Crucial Role of the Military in the Venezuelan Crisis
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Apr 03 (IPS) - Dr Diego Lopes da Silva is a Researcher with the Arms and Military Expenditure Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) & Dr Nan Tian is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure Programme.
In January 2019 Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly swore in congressman Juan Guaidó as the country's interim president. Guaidó's claim to power is a severe blow against the already weakened government of Nicolás Maduro, whose re-election as president in May 2018 was widely rejected by the international community and deemed illegitimate by over 50 foreign governments.
Smart Cities hold Key to Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 03 (IPS) - Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Asia and the Pacific's phenomenal development has been a story of rapid urbanization. As centres of innovation, entrepreneurship and opportunity, cities have drawn talent from across our region and driven economic growth which has transformed our societies.
“They’re like those bad football fans”
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Apr 03 (IPS) - It's been called the most important election in decades. The coming elections to the European Parliament will take place in May, and some believe it will be a springboard for the parties on the far right. But what would the consequences of that be for the labour markets in the European Union's member states?
Education for All—Refugees Too
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 03 (IPS) - Young Rohingya refugees are now facing new hardships as the Bangladeshi government cracks down on their education and future opportunities.
China and Developing Countries: Managing Chinese Investments
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 03 (IPS) - Fifty years ago China was a poor country with little influence in the international sphere and without even a seat at the United Nations. Since then rapid economic growth in China has made it an economic powerhouse that increasingly plays a leading role on the world stage as a trade partners as well as a source of investment.
Increasing Leprosy Cases in Micronesia Points to Better Detection and Awareness
- Inter Press Service
POHNPEI, Apr 03 (IPS) - Elizabeth Keller is one of the most senior health officials in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). She is the current acting chief of Public Health and also the head of the leprosy programme in the island nation's capital of Pohnpei.
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