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Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Dec 06 (IPS) - The growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobials due to their overuse and misuse both in humans and animals has become an alarming global threat to public health, food safety and security, causing the deaths of 700,000 people each year. This is a fact.
Rohingya Exodus Is a “Major Global Humanitarian Emergency”
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 05 (IPS) - In less than four months, over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled brutal persecution in Myanmar to seek safety across the border in Bangladesh. They are now crowded into camps across a stretch of 30 kms in Cox's Bazar, a southeastern coastal region of the small South Asian nation.
Action Needed to Avoid the End of Modern Medicine
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Malaysia, Dec 05 (IPS) - The next time you have a bad cold and reach for the antibiotics left over from your last visit to the doctor, think again.
Strengthening Governments to Cope with PPPs
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 05 (IPS) - Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged in recent years as the development ‘flavour of the decade' in place of aspects of the old Washington Consensus. Instead of replacing the role of government or consigning it to the garbage bin of history, corporations are increasingly using governments to advance their own interests through PPPs.
“Will Civil Society & Democracy in India Rise to the Existential Challenges They Face?”
- Inter Press Service
SUVA, Fiji, Dec 05 (IPS) - A cursory glance at international funding of the social sector in India reveals that it has grown at over 25% annually over the past three years.
Rohingya Refugees Face Fresh Ordeal in Crowded Camps
- Inter Press Service
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Dec 05 (IPS) - Mariam Akhtar, 23, is desperately searching for her young daughter two weeks after arriving from Myanmar in Cox's Bazar, a southeastern coastal district in Bangladesh.
Civil Society Week Puts Spotlight on the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
SUVA, Fiji, Dec 05 (IPS) - It's a busy week for movers, shakers and policymakers attending a global gathering of civil society activists here in Fiji. For the first time, the International Civil Society Week (ICSW) is holding its sessions in the Pacific. It's a sign of a growing awareness of the problems facing these remote islands – problems they cannot be ignored any longer.
Build Back Better: The Tiny Island of Dominica Faces New Climate Reality
- Inter Press Service
ROSEAU, Dominica, Dec 04 (IPS) - McCarthy Marie has been living in the Fond Cani community, a few kilometres east of the Dominica capital Roseau, for 38 years. The 68-year-old economist moved to the area in 1979 following the decimation of the island by Hurricane David.
New Safety Handbook by IAWRT
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Dec 04 (IPS) - Hopefully female journalists have read it by now "What if…? Safety Handbook for Women Journalists". The handbook, written by renowned safety trainer Abeer Saady, an Egyptian, and published by The International Association for Women in Radio and Televison (IAWRT), provides hands on tips on what to do when caught in a crossfire , when stopped at checkpoints, arrested during coverage, or kidnapped and held hostage.
Indigenous People, Guardians of Threatened Forests in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
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