Global Issues
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Agricultural Power, Waning Industry Dictate Brazil's Future
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 14 (IPS) - With its accelerated growth agriculture has emerged as a key sector of Brazil's economy, but it is failing on its own to spread prosperity and reduce poverty and inequality, with industry in decline.
Dream. Dare. Do.
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (IPS) - Conflict, forced displacement, climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions of crisis-affected children and adolescents around the world.
ONE OCEAN SUMMIT – An Opportunity For Blue Transformation
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 14 (IPS) - The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet. There is no question it is critical for our health and well-being. It provides half the earth’s oxygen supply and every organism in existence depends on it to survive.
Call for Increased Global Efforts to Ease Africa’s Climate-Induced Water Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 14 (IPS) - When years ago warnings were sounded that future wars would be fought not over oil but water, the predictions were dismissed as alarmist.
Responding to New Threats to Poverty Eradication in Asia
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 14 (IPS) - With consistent, robust economic growth, countries across Asia have made monumental strides in eradicating extreme poverty over the past 30 years. In Bangladesh, for example, the population living in extreme poverty dropped from 43% in 1991 to 10.5% in 2019. Similarly in Cambodia, poverty incidence fell from 53% in 2004 to below 10% by 2016.
‘Historic expansion’ of joint UN fund to boost sustainable development
- UN News
The UN Joint SDG Fund announced on Monday an additional $54.5 million in investments for projects across five countries, to try and get the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track.
Inequality Kills One Person Every Four Seconds
- Inter Press Service
Feb 14 (IPS) - Inequality is deadly… It contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day—or one person every four seconds. This is a “highly conservative estimate” for deaths resulting from hunger, lack of access to healthcare and climate breakdown in poor countries…
An Unjustified COVID-19 Complacency -- & a 16-Billion Dollar Gap in Vaccine and Treatment Regime
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 14 (IPS) - I am not sure the world will ever forgive us for worsening vaccine inequality and treatment of Africa as bad as under colonial rule.
People have become complacent about COVID-19. Our global (health) funds are fast running out of money. Vaccine inequity is getting worse.
Rebuilding Haiti: The post-earthquake path to recovery
- UN News
Six months after a devastating earthquake in south-west Haiti which caused the deaths of 2,200 people and injured 12,700 more, the international community is coming together with the Government of Haiti to raise up to $2 billion for the long-term recovery and reconstruction of the country. UN News explains why support is needed
Science Academies and Disciplinary Groups Have Work to do on Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
Feb 11 (IPS) - Women remain under-represented in science careers and research all over the world. There are several reasons for this, including stereotypes about what kind of work women “can” or “should” do; patriarchal attitudes; and a lack of support for women pursuing science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers.
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