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UN Labour Report Highlights Employment Challenges for Youth
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Aug 24 (IPS) - When COVID-19 prompted economic shutdowns across the globe, many analysts predicted that youth would be especially at risk. This is because young people tend to have fewer economic assets and limited experience in the labor market.
Thinking Like a Tree – A Tribute to Life Sustainers
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 24 (IPS) - When I was a child, a friend asked me: “How would you describe a tree to someone who has never seen one?” I looked at the trees surrounding us and realised it was impossible, considering their versatility, beauty and utter strangeness. Since that time, I have often wondered about trees, as well as I have been worried by the indiscriminate destruction of trees and forests.
Funding Urgently Needed for Children’s Education in Conflict Areas—ECW Director
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) - Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) issued a wake-up call for the global community to support efforts on facilitating education in crisis areas. She was speaking at the United Nations at the launch of the global fund's annual report titled We Have Promises to Keep.
Keeping the Promise of Education for Crisis-Impacted Children and Adolescents
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) - Syrian refugee children are among the most disadvantaged in Iraq. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 53 percent of school-aged Syrian refugee children in the country were enrolled.
Yezidis in Armenia: From Reincarnation to Exodus
- Inter Press Service
ARDASHAR, Armenia, Aug 23 (IPS) - There are those cows watching the fight in the mud of rusty Soviet cars; there are those tethered dogs that bark next to bathtubs full of rainwater, or those cats that frolic in freedom. This is Armenia, a state of three million deep in the heart of the Caucasus region.
Celebrating 30 Years of Shared Water
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 23 (IPS) - We tend to associate rivers and lakes with the countries in which they are located. Yet a little-known fact is that more than half of the world’s freshwater bodies are shared.
How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (IPS) - After four years of Trump’s ‘America first’ isolationism, US President Joe Biden announced “America is back”. His White House has since tried to find allies against China and Russia.
But it has not found many, especially in the Global South. His summit with Southeast Asian leaders was well attended, but promised little. Worse, his Summit of the Americas revealed fading US influence in its long-time backyard.
High Cost of Medical Services Puts Immigrants' Health at Risk in the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Aug 23 (IPS) - Getting sick is one of the worst fears facing Jorge, a Salvadoran living in the United States, because without access to health insurance or public health programs, he knows he will not be able to afford the high cost of hospital care.
'And of Water We Made Every Living Thing'
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Aug 22 (IPS) - This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book - the Quran refers to the most precious element of life.
The Challenges of High Fertility, Rapidly Growing Populations
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Aug 22 (IPS) - While most countries in the world have made the transition from high to low rates of deaths and births, many countries, largely in Africa, face the challenges of high fertility rates that are resulting in rapidly growing populations.
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