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  1. South African Court Rules that Clean Air Is a Constitutional Right: What Needs to Change

    - Inter Press Service

    PRETORIA, Mar 23 (IPS) - A court in South Africa has confirmed the constitutional right of the country’s citizens to an environment that isn’t harmful to their health. This includes the right to clean air, as exposure to air pollution affects human health. Air pollution also affects land and water systems, and decreases agricultural yields.

  2. Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels by 2025 - Experts

    - Inter Press Service

    Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 23 (IPS) - Joan Waweru was among villagers on their regular trek to the river to fetch water when they discovered a neighbour's dead body, believed to have committed suicide by drowning in river Kamiti.

  3. Donors Must Rethink Africas Flagging Green Revolution, New Evaluation Shows (Commentary)

    - Inter Press Service

    BOSTON, Mar 23 (IPS) - A scathing new analysis of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that the program is failing at its objective to increase food security on the continent, despite massive funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US, UK, and German governments.

  4. Seeds of change in Kenya as farmers lead way on tobacco-free farms

    - UN News

    In Kenya, a trailblazing sustainable agriculture project has helped hundreds of farmers move away from the harmful practice of growing tobacco, in favour of a healthier alternative, the UN said on Wednesday.

  5. UN weather agency to spearhead 5 year early warning plan, boosting climate action

    - UN News

    The UN set an ambitious five year deadline on Wednesday for countries to ensure that citizens worldwide are protected by early warning systems against extreme weather and climate change, the UN chief announced, marking World Meteorological Day.

  6. NGOs Seeking a Monterrey+20 Summit on Financing for Development

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Mar 23 (IPS) - This week, exactly 20 years ago, world leaders adopted the United Nation’s Monterrey Consensus. They committed to “Confronting the challenges of financing for development” with a global response and to creating a fully inclusive and equitable global economic system.

  7. War on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage

    - Inter Press Service

    MADRID, Mar 22 (IPS) - “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population – somewhere in the order of 22 million - have been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared….

  8. Water & Sanitation Crisis Escalates as Yemenis Mark World Water Day

    - Inter Press Service

    IBB Governorate, Yemen, Mar 22 (IPS) - As Yemen enters its 8th year of an escalating conflict, 21.7 million of my fellow Yemenis are forced to rely on humanitarian assistance to survive. The conflict has left a trail of devastation in its wake – the country is in economic freefall, and families face intensified violence, hunger, and disease.

  9. Zimbabwe Crackdown on NGOs Could Impact Election Observation

    - Inter Press Service

    Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Mar 22 (IPS) - Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with a controversial bill that critics say seeks to criminalise the operations of nongovernmental organisations working in the country.

  10. UN's Guterres Must be Visibly Proactive as Peacemaker in Ukraine

    - Inter Press Service

    KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 22 (IPS) - In an opinion piece published in PassBlue on 15 March 2022, historian Stephen Schlesinger asked, "Where is the UN's Guterres?" as Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine has been dominating the world’s headline news.

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