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  1. Gender Lens Crucial to Leaving No One Behind (Part 1)

    - Inter Press Service

    Johannesburg, Feb 27 (IPS) - Parliamentarians' leadership in a post-COVID-19 recovery is crucial to achieving the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) agenda. The involvement of lawmakers in ensuring a more equal, just, and sustainable society will come under the spotlight during a two-day inter-regional meeting organized by the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) and the Forum of Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development (FAPPD,) and supported by UNFPA ASRO in early March 2022.

  2. Firm, Unified Response Needed to Russias Aggression

    - Inter Press Service

    LONDON, Feb 25 (IPS) - It is now clear diplomacy matters little to Vladimir Putin. Despite the efforts of a string of presidents and prime ministers to prevent conflict, on 24 February, Putin started the war he’d been itching for.

  3. World's Custodian of Peace Remains Glaringly Irrelevant

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - As a new political twist to an old saying goes: the dogs bark but the military caravan moves on.

    Despite ominous warnings from an overwhelming majority of member states both in the General Assembly and the Security Council — against a military attack on Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin stood defiant when he ordered a full-scale invasion of a sovereign territory.

  4. Pandemic Hit Domestic Workers Especially Hard in Brazil

    - Inter Press Service

    RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 24 (IPS) - "Woman, poor, black and illiterate" - most domestic workers suffer quadruple discrimination in Brazil, which made them more vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, says one of their leaders, Gloria Rejane Santos.

  5. Decapitating Terrorist Organisations Won't End Terror

    - Inter Press Service

    AMMAN, Jordan, Feb 24 (IPS) - Killing terrorist organisations’ leaders is no effective way of fighting terrorism — as it’s political and economic crises on which terrorism feeds.

  6. Sugarcane Gas Opens New Horizons for Energy Agriculture - Video

    - Inter Press Service

    NARANDIBA, Brazil, Feb 23 (IPS) - Nothing is wasted from sugarcane, one can conclude from the biomethane production process at the Cocal plant, a Brazilian company that produces sugar, ethanol, electricity and other by-products from sugarcane agro-industrial waste.

  7. Rising incomes more harmful to environment than population growth

    - UN News

    Higher incomes contribute more to environmental degradation than population growth, a report by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has revealed. 

  8. Development finance institutions must include in investments, ‘right to remedy’

    - UN News

    The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights launched on Wednesday a ground-breaking new report for development finance institutions to ensure that the projects they support do not harm people, and make effective remedy is readily available.

  9. Caring for The Old

    - Inter Press Service

    PORTLAND, USA, Feb 23 (IPS) - With the unprecedented ageing of populations worldwide, countries are struggling with the critical questions of who should be responsible for caring for the old and what should be the extent of care provided to women and men in old age.

  10. Bob Dylan and the Ukraine Crisis

    - Inter Press Service

    SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Feb 23 (IPS) - Fifty-nine years ago, Bob Dylan recorded “With God on Our Side.” You probably haven’t heard it on the radio for a very long time, if ever, but right now you could listen to it as his most evergreen of topical songs:

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