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  1. International Women’s Day, 2022 - Celebrating the Transformative Impact of Women as Non-Formal Educators

    - Inter Press Service

    DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) - Women around the world play crucial roles in education as formal educators, school staff members, and parents of students. But women are also transforming education as non-formal educators in ways that can be scaled to improve education broadly. As we celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), it’s important that this transformative role is recognized.

  2. Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future

    - Inter Press Service

    LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) - "Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her," says Hilda Roca, an indigenous Peruvian farmer from Cusipata, in the Andes highlands of the department of Cuzco, referring to climate change and the havoc it is wreaking on her life and her environment.

  3. The Climate Change Shuffle: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing

    - Inter Press Service

    PORTLAND, USA, Mar 07 (IPS) - While more than a half century ago the Twist was the craze in dance halls globally, today the Climate Change Shuffle is the craze in government halls and conference sites worldwide as officials dance around the dangers of climate change.

  4. Invest in care services to generate jobs, support working parents: ILO report

    - UN News

    Greater investment in care services could create nearly 300 million jobs by 2035, the UN’s labour agency, ILO, said in a report published on Monday ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on 8 March. 

  5. A Tale of Two Refugee Crises

    - Inter Press Service

    GENEVA, Mar 07 (IPS) - Russia’s brutal and devastating invasion of Ukraine has triggered the largest and fastest refugee movement in Europe since World War II. After only a single week, more than one million people are had already fled the country.

  6. International Women’s Day, 2022 - War, Want, Weather and Wellbeing: Where Are We Now?

    - Inter Press Service

  7. Ukraine Challenges Legitimacy of Russia's UN Membership

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) - The overwhelming condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine—which triggered a veto from Russia and an abstention from China last week – has raised a challenging question about the legitimacy of UN memberships of both countries which are permanent members of the Security Council.

  8. International Women’s Day, 2022 - To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women

    - Inter Press Service

    PANAMA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) - Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduces unpaid domestic labour and gender-based violence. Yet too often, the sector as a whole – from industry to policymaking – still fails to include women as energy users, decision-makers and agents of change of the energy transition.

  9. International Women’s Day, 2022 - Gender Blind Spots in the Water Sector

    - Inter Press Service

    HAMILTON, Ontario, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. UN Women estimates 150 million women and girls are emerging from poverty by 2030, thanks largely to comprehensive education, labor, and social protection strategies and reforms implemented by governments around the world.

  10. Miles’ Law and the War in Ukraine; Where you stand depends on where you sit

    - Inter Press Service

    ROME, Mar 04 (IPS) - This aphorism which dates back to the late 1940s points out that one’s position on issues (where you stand) is shaped by your relationship with the events taking place (where you sit).

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