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UNs High-Level Meeting of World Leaders Falls Short of Gender Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) - When the UN’s high-level meeting of world leaders concluded last week, the head count seemed lopsided: 190 speakers, including 76 Heads of State, 50 Heads of Government, 4 Vice-Presidents, 5 Deputy Prime Ministers, 48 Ministers and 7 Heads of Delegations—overwhelmingly male.
Empty shelves and rising prices linked to Ukraine crisis push Tunisians to the brink
- UN News
For many Tunisians, shortages of essential foods, fuel and key farming products linked to the war in Ukraine, have tested them to the limit, they’ve been telling UN News.
Yemen: Put the people first, Guterres urges, with extended and expanded truce
- UN News
Yemen’s warring parties who have sustained a nationwide truce for the past six months, need to prioritize the “needs and aspirations” of the people, by both extending and expanding it, beyond Sunday’s imminent deadline, the UN chief has said.
Poverty Impacts on Efforts to End Child Marriage, say Parliamentarians
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, Sep 29 (IPS) - Child marriage continues to be a scourge in many African countries – despite legislation and efforts of many, including parliamentarians, to keep girls in school and create brighter futures for them. This was the view of participants in a recent webinar held under the auspices of the African Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (FPA) and UNFPA East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO).
Nepal Government, UN Agency Seek Investors for Latest Cash Crop to Boom in Country's East
- Inter Press Service
SALAKPUR, Nepal, Sep 29 (IPS) - Two and a half hours’ drive north from Kakarbhitta, Nepal’s eastern-most border crossing with giant neighbour India, lies the hilly hamlet of Salakpur where lives Kaushila Moktan, a famed farmer of large cardamom.
Climate Action Plans Could Help Address Injustice, Inequity in African Cities
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sep 29 (IPS) - Equity and justice feature prominently in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th (IPCC) Assessment Report Working Group II, published in 2022. The report focuses on the impacts of climate change, as well as vulnerability and adaptation.
World Maritime Day showcases technology for ‘greener’ shipping
- UN News
How shipping can contribute to a more sustainable future for all is the focus of World Maritime Day, celebrated on Thursday.
Go and Tell the Hungry that Their Food Is Being Thrown in the Garbage
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Sep 28 (IPS) - These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
Measuring Human Rights - PODCAST
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Sep 28 (IPS) - Welcome to Strive podcast, where we chat with new voices about fresh ideas to create a more just and sustainable world. My name is Marty Logan.
Reasonable Left, Irresponsible Right: & the Future of Social Democracy
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Sep 28 (IPS) - With no shortage of catastrophes in the past 15 years worldwide — the democratic left is stepping up to provide stability amid the storm.
Throughout the history of mankind, there have been catastrophes. In modern times, there have also been media representations of catastrophe, including worked-up or even imagined catastrophes.
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