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The U.N. at 70: Risk Averse, Unsafe and Too Old
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 12 (IPS) - On Apr. 20, this year, four of my colleagues tragically lost their lives in Northern Somalia, when an explosive device ripped through their minibus as they travelled back to their guesthouse.
EU to Focus on Human Trafficking Amid Mediterranean Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - Speaking at the U.N. Security Council, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, called on the international community to take urgent steps to end the Mediterranean crisis and dismantle the human smuggling rings that facilitate it.
IACHR Addresses Violence Against Native Peoples in Costa Rica
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, May 11 (IPS) - After years of violence against two indigenous groups in Costa Rica, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) demanded that the government adopt measures by May 15 to protect the life and physical integrity of the members of the two communities.
Farmers Fight Real Estate Developers for Kenya’s Most Prized Asset: Land
- Inter Press Service
Q&A: Nuclear Disarmament a Non-Starter, "But I Would Love to Be Proven Wrong"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - Albert Einstein, the internationally-renowned physicist who developed the theory of relativity, once famously remarked: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Opinion: Don’t Leave Indigenous Peoples Behind in SDGs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - U.N. member states are meeting throughout the year to finalize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will set the global development agenda for the next 15 years. The goals are supposed to be universal and aspire to "leave no one behind."
Migrants Between Scylla and Charybdis
- Inter Press Service
AUGUSTA, Syracuse, Italy, May 11 (IPS) - Not even a month has passed since over 700 hundred migrants lost their lives in their attempt to reaching the shores of Italy and the media spotlights have already faded on the island of Sicily, Italy's southern region and main gateway to Europe.
Opinion: A Development Fairytale or a Global Land Rush?
- Inter Press Service
PARIS/OAKLAND, California, May 11 (IPS) - In our work at Greenpeace and the Oakland Institute around access and control over natural resources, we face constant accusations of being anti-development or "Northern NGOs who care more for the trees", despite working with communities around the world, from Cameroon, to China, to the Czech Republic.
Analysis: Global Politics at a Turning Point – Part 2
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 10 (IPS) - In the following months, reports of the use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces multiplied. The most serious was an allegation that the Syrian army had used sarin gas on Mar. 19, 2013 at Khan al Assal, north of Aleppo, and in a suburb of Damascus against its opponents. This was followed by two more allegations of small attacks in April.
Analysis: Global Politics at a Turning Point – Part 1
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 10 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's Nowroz greeting to the Iranian people earlier this year was the first clear indication to the world that the United States and Iran were very close to agreement on the contents of the nuclear agreement they had been working towards for the previous 16 months.
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