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  1. ‘Think resilience’ to protect against climate and other catastrophes

    - UN News

    More countries must “think resilience”, and urgently adopt and improve early warning systems to reduce risks from an increasing number of disasters across the world, a UN disaster forum concluded on Friday.

  2. Child Labour Survivor Has a Dream of Freeing Others

    - Inter Press Service

    DURBAN, May 27 (IPS) - Selimatha Dziedzorm Salifu was just seven years old when she went to work for the first time to support her family.

  3. Gender Sensitivity Key to Achieving Climate Justice

    - Inter Press Service

    Toronto, May 27 (IPS) - While the climate crisis affects virtually every aspect of life, its impacts are not felt equally.

  4. Food Banks are Early Warning Systems for Emerging Food Crises, but also a Key Solution

    - Inter Press Service

    CHICAGO, USA, May 27 (IPS) - For months, the specter of a global hunger crisis has been looming. The war in Ukraine is a compounding factor, blocking key value chains for food and fertilizer just as the world reckons with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global hunger.

  5. African nations leading the way on ‘food systems transformation’: Guterres

    - UN News

    African countries are at the vanguard of a vital transformation of food systems to simultaneously address food security, nutrition, social and environmental protection – all while boosting resilience – said the UN chief on Thursday. 

  6. All Africa Student Leader says Political Will, Collective Action, Education and Social Packages Can End Child Labour

    - Inter Press Service

    Durban, May 26 (IPS) - Samuel Sasu Adonteng, programme officer for the All-Africa Students Union (AASU), believes that the recent 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour has taken us closer to ending child labour for the first time, the voices of those affected were heard.

  7. Climate Change Poses Risks: COP27 Presents Unique Opportunity for Africa

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, May 26 (IPS) - Ambassador Maria de Jesus dos Reis Ferreira was appointed in February 2018 as the Permanent Representative of Angola to the UN, the first woman to hold the position.

  8. Without Peace, Hunger Will Continue to Increase

    - Inter Press Service

    ROME, May 25 (IPS) - This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, Assistant Director-General at FAOIf the war in Ukraine, that was initiated three months ago, does not end, and without a reduction in the growing number of conflicts in other parts of the world, hunger will only continue to increase.

  9. So, Germany's to Blame for Putin. Really?

    - Inter Press Service

    ATHENS, Greece, May 25 (IPS) - Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has sparked a new introspection in the West. A number of commentators, most of them writing from the US and the UK, have come up with their latest scapegoat: Germany’s to blame, they say, with its decades-long policy of appeasing Russia. Really?

  10. Africa provides a ‘home for hope’, despite new challenges: Guterres

    - UN News

    On Africa Day, the world celebrates the diverse and dynamic continent’s “enormous promise and potential”, the UN chief said in an upbeat message to mark the day on Wednesday.

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