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Industrial Jobs in Danger When the Climate is to be Saved
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Mar 05 (IPS) - The trade unions' solution for a greener world is new jobs with good working conditions. The critics argue that there's not enough time. "We can either protect industrial jobs in the global north or save the climate", says political scientist Tadzio Müller.
Women’s Feature Service: Mapping the Struggles of Feminism in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 05 (IPS) - Shiwani Neupane is a writer for PassBlue*, which provides in-depth coverage of the UN and women's issues.
Pamela Phillipose was editor of the Women's Feature Service, the only syndicated news service in India with a gender perspective, for nearly six years, until she stepped down this year as editor in chief and director. She wore other hats for the publication as well, writing and photographing.
Ignorance-Inspired Brexit Imperial Nostalgia
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR & SYDNEY, Mar 05 (IPS) - As the possible implications of Britain's self-imposed ‘no-deal' exit from the European Union loom larger, a new round of imperial nostalgia has come alive.
After turning its back on the Commonwealth since the Thatcherite 1980s, some British Conservative Party leaders are seeking to revive colonial connections in increasingly desperate efforts to avoid self-inflicted marginalization following divorce from its European Union neighbours across the Channel.
A Disease as Old as Time - Eliminated but Not Eradicated
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - As the Executive Director of Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation (SMHF), Takahiro Nanri has been working on the issue of leprosy since 2014. Over the past few years, he has traveled across the world visiting the large number of leprosy projects that SMHF has been supporting and meeting dozens of organisations led by leprosy-affected people.
Q&A: Important to Treat Anyone Suffering from Leprosy as an Equal Individual
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - Discrimination against women who are affected by leprosy or Hansen's Disease is a harsh reality, says Alice Cruz is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members.
New Regional Secretariat to Advance Leprosy Advocacy in Asia
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - Organisations of people affected by leprosy in Asia have agreed to form a regional-level secretariat to support national advocacies and represent their collective agenda at a world conference to be held later this year.
Q&A: Leprosy-affected People Live Not at the Bottom, but Outside the Social Pyramid
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 05 (IPS) - Takahiro Nanri is the Executive Director of Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation which has been supporting the global fight against leprosy for almost five decades. Since 2014, Nanri has been leading the foundation's leprosy projects across the world and has deep insights into the challenges faced by the people affected by leprosy as well as the organisations that work with them.
Healthy Oceans, Healthy Societies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 05 (IPS) - Over recent years, there have been shocking reports of marine endangerment and plastic pollution. The threats are clear, and now urgent action is needed more than ever.
International Women’s Day: Don't Let Anyone Tell You How Far You Can Go
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Mar 04 (IPS) - Leire Gurruchaga Iraola is Gender Specialist at Educo, described as a global development and humanitarian action NGO with over 25 years' experience working to defend children and their rights, and especially the right to an equitable and quality education.
The data – with its sexism and its gaps – shows us that many of the barriers girls experience are determined merely by their gender.
This inequality, present in all societies, is by far the most widespread bias. At Educo we are determined, like the women and girls we work with, to put a stop to this injustice. And not just on International Women's Day March 8, but every day.
Individual Empowerment Still Important in Leprosy Groups’ Strategies
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 04 (IPS) - The tragic tale of Thobias Alexander Manas's personal experience with leprosy is all too typical.
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