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The Battle for Covid-19 Vaccines: the Rich Prevail Over the Poor
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated the world’s poorer nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, depriving them of any wide-ranging intellectual property rights.
As Max Lawson, Co-Chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance and Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam, said at the conclusion of the WTO’s ministerial meeting last week: “The conduct of rich countries at the WTO has been utterly shameful”.
Slave Markets Open 24/7: Refugee Babies, Boys, Girls, Women, Men
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jun 17 (IPS) - In addition to slave selling and buying deals in public squares, as reported time ago in ‘liberated’ Libya, a widespread exploitation of men, women, and children has been carried out for years at refugee camps worldwide.
Countering Hate Speech Through Media: A Young Caribbean Woman's Perspective
- Inter Press Service
MONA, Jamaica, Jun 17 (IPS) - Hate speech is a phenomenon that can be defined as threatening speech or writing expressing prejudice towards a specific group, primarily based on race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Taliban: The Return of Misogynistic Gynophobes in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jun 17 (IPS) - Gynophobia is defined as an intense and irrational fear of women or hatred of women, it may be characterized as a form of specific phobias, which involves a fear that is centered on a specific trigger or situation, which in the case of gynophobia is women.
Challenge for 2023: Guaranteeing Sufficient Food Production
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 16 (IPS) - This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General at FAOIf the war in Ukraine and other conflicts around the world continue, the challenge for 2022 will be to guarantee greater access to existing food supplies, and sufficient food production by 2023.
Bilingual Intercultural Education, an Endangered Indigenous Right in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jun 16 (IPS) - "I always express myself in Quechua and I don't feel I’m less of a person," said Elías Ccollatupa, 47, who has been a bilingual intercultural teacher for more than two decades in the Chinchaypujio district, one of the nine that make up the province of Anta, in the department of Cuzco, in the southern Andean region of Peru.
Frankincense and Myrrh Have New Economic Resonance for Women in Kenyas Arid North
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Jun 16 (IPS) - Clad in traditional regalia and necklaces of richly coloured beads that form magnificent patterns around their necks, an army of women from the pastoral Rendile community that resides at the heart of Marsabit, a county in Kenya’s arid north, is on a mission.
Congo's Oil Ministry Accused of Greenwashing
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Jun 16 (IPS) - Nine of the 16 oil blocks to be auctioned in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) next month overlap Protected Areas, according to a review of official government maps by Greenpeace Africa.
Ending Hunger in America: Here's What the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Should Do to Be Inclusive
- Inter Press Service
URBANA, Illinois, USA, Jun 15 (IPS) - This September, the White House will convene a conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. Leading up to the conference, the White House is organizing several virtual listening sessions across America to hear firsthand from people impacted by food insecurity and to collect ideas about how to end hunger and hunger-related diseases and disparities.
Sanctions on Russia already hitting remittance-dependent countries in Central Asia: IOM
- UN News
As the UN marks the International Day of Family Remittances on Thursday, there is concern that economic contraction and job losses in Russia - likely to now rise further as a result of sanctions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine - are already having an impact on remittance-dependent communities in Central Asia, according to experts with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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