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U.N. Continues Condemnation of Civilian Casualties in Yemen
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - The Saudi coalition, which continues its air strikes against rebels in strife-torn Yemen, is fast gaining notoriety as "the gang that couldn't shoot straight" – largely because of its misses than its hits.
Honduran Fishing Village Says Adios to Candles and Dirty Energy
- Inter Press Service
PLAN GRANDE, Honduras, Oct 01 (IPS) - A small fishing village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras has become an example to be followed in renewable energies, after replacing candles and dirty costly energy based on fossil fuels with hydropower from a mini-dam, while reforesting the river basin.
Palestine President Abbas Warns of ‘Grave Dangers’ in Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - "I come before you today…compelled to sound the alarm about the grave dangers of what is happening in Jerusalem," said Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas in his remarks to the United Nations General Assembly on Sep. 30.
As the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis Endures, International Morality Ebbs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 01 (IPS) - As the world suffers its biggest upheaval of human mobility, with 60 million people forced to desert their homes or countries due to persecution, armed conflicts, starvation and hunger that are a veritable danger to their lives, the response from the international community has been rather laggard.
2015 Right Livelihood Awards. For the First Time the Awards Go to Italy and Uganda
- Inter Press Service
Rome, Oct 01 (IPS) - The 2015 Right Livelihood Awards were announced today in Stockholm at the Swedish Foreign Office International Press Centre by Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director, and Dr Monika Griefahn, Chair of the Board of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation.
U.S. 100th Member State to Join Nuke Terrorism Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) - A 1997 movie titled "The Peacemaker" –partly shot outside the United Nations – dramatised the story of a Yugoslav terrorist who acquires a backpack-sized nuclear weapon, gone missing after a train wreck in rural Russia, and brings it to New York to detonate it outside U.N. headquarters.
Men Start to Make Women’s Struggles Their Own in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 30 (IPS) - The meeting was about gender equality, but for once there were more men than women. It marked a watershed in the struggle in Argentina to make the commitment to equality more than just "a women's thing."
Human Rights Activists Condemn Houthi Militia's Atrocities Against Women in Yemen
- Inter Press Service
Geneva, Sep 30 (IPS) - (WAM) -- Arab and Yemeni human rights activist monitoring the civil war in Yemen say that women have been subjected to grave human right violations at the hands of the rebel Houthi militia and an allied insurgent group under the command of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Learning from Korea’s ‘Saemaul Undong’ to Achieve SDGs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) - More than 3.3 billion people live in rural areas around the world. Rural development is therefore of vital significance if the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – "a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity" – is to become reality.
Opinion: Renewed Optimism or Higgledy-Piggledy Vision?
- Inter Press Service
Philadelphia and Boston, Sep 30 (IPS) - The 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the whopping 169 targets were adopted in the largest ever United Nations Summit, attended by Prime Ministers, Presidents and the Pope, among other luminaries, in New York. These goals encompass world peace, the environment, gender equality, elimination of poverty and hunger and much, much more.
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