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Using Climate-Smart Solutions to Promote Peace in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
YAMBIO, South Sudan, Mar 13 (IPS) - Almost a month to go ahead of the traditional rainy season in Gbudue State, 430 kilometres west of South Sudan's capital, Juba, smallholder farmers are already tilling their land as they prepare to plant purer, drought-tolerant seeds.
Gang Rape & Murder of 12 Year Old Somali Girl Sparks Fury
- Inter Press Service
PUNTLAND, Somalia, Mar 13 (IPS) - Hawa Aden Mohamed is founder of The Galkayo Centre, an organisation based in Galkayo, Puntland, Somalia, which educates and protects girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) and other forms of violence. It is the local partner of international group Donor Direct Action.
Aisha Elias Adan was abducted on the evening of February 24th at a market in Israc village, Puntland, Somalia.
Her body was carelessly dumped in front of her family home the following morning. A doctor's report showed that she had been brutally gang-raped.
REISSUE: When Environmental Crises Hit Homes, Women Suffer the Most
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 13 (IPS) - IPS is reissuing this piece that appeared in Mar 5, 2018 in memory of the author Victor Tsang, who tragically passed away on Sunday in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, along with 156 others. There were 21 United Nations officials on board the flight. The fatalities included people from 35 countries, including 32 Kenyan citizens, 18 from Canada, nine from Ethiopia, eight from Italy, China and the US, and seven from the UK and France.
This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of this year's International Women's Day on March 8.
Victor Tsang is UN Environment gender expert and Shari Nijman, UN Environment communication officerWhen Mandelena became a mother, she was only 16. During the prolonged dry season in Gwor County, South Sudan, her community saw crops failing and cattle dying. Children stopped going to school because of hunger and women and girls had to walk up to five hours every day to collect water.
Syrian Crisis Enters Ninth Year with 11 Million Refugees Overseas & 6 Million Home
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Herve Verhoosel is Senior Spokesperson UN World Food Programme*
The bell rings and the halls erupt with the sounds of chatter and excitement as hundreds of children run to the dusty courtyard for recess. I joined them to play football but the game instead turned into a round of questions.
Free Stella Nyanzi, Demand Pan African Activists in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Mar 13 (IPS) - On Saturday 9th March, a small group of activists from Ghana, concerned by the continued incarceration of Ugandan feminist activist Dr Stella Nyanzi, rallied by the symbolic national independence Square to raise awareness on the dangers of remaining quiet to injustice.
People Affected by Leprosy Still Face Stigma in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
RÍO DE JANEIRO, Mar 13 (IPS) - The First Latin American and Caribbean Meeting of Organisations of People Affected by Hansen's Disease, more widely known as leprosy, seeks to exorcise stigma and discrimination. The meeting has brought together around a hundred activists in Brazil.
Multilateralism: A Testimony
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA and ROME, Mar 12 (IPS) - For over 70 years, the UN system has been perceived as the guardian of peace and development in the world. However, multilateralism today is undeniably under strain. The effectiveness of global institutions and of global policymaking is questioned, and alliances are fraying.
Innovative Sustainable Business: A Three Trillion-Dollar Opportunity that UN Environment Wants People to Develop
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 12 (IPS) - In the East African region, communities around the continent's largest water body, Lake Victoria, regard the water hyacinth as a great menace that clogs the lake and hampers their fishing activities. But in Lagos, Nigeria, some groups of women have learned how to convert the invasive weed into a resource, providing them with the raw material needed to make handicrafts.
Women, Work, and Migration
- Inter Press Service
MUMBAI, India, Mar 12 (IPS) - Social barriers have historically been blamed for the lack of gender parity in the workplace. But there are other dimensions to this age-old discourse.
Gender Quotas Help Women Parliamentarians to Rise in Numbers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) - When the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), based in Switzerland, released its annual report on the representation of women legislators worldwide, four of the top five countries were from the developing world.
Rwanda led the way with 61.3 percent of the seats held by women in its lower or single house of parliament followed by Cuba (53.2 percent), Bolivia (53.1 percent) and Mexico (48.2 percent).
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