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2021: A Grim Year for Planet Earth
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Dec 23 (IPS) - Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the deadly manifestations of the climate crisis, there were few places to hide for most of us in 2021.
Ageing billionaires riding booming stock markets could take their first flights into space in their own rockets, but for the rest of Planet Earth’s 8 billion people with their feet on the ground it was a year of placing hope in the hands of scientists and our political leaders to turn the tide.
America Faces a Fateful Crossroad in 2022
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dec 23 (IPS) - When my assistant handed me copy expressing my greetings and good wishes for 2022 for approval, I paused, thinking, “is that all I can say, just hope for a better, brighter new year?”
Blue Ocean Solutions for Climate Resilience and Accelerated Development
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Dec 22 (IPS) - Seychelles’ 115 islands are an exotic ocean ecosystem of beaches, coral reefs, and unique plant and animal species. Concerned with the impacts of climate change, the country has committed to decarbonize by 2050.
Women’s Rights Groups Welcome New Legal Protections Against Sexual Violence in the Maldives, including Marital Rape
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Dec 22 (IPS) - Marital rape has now been criminalized without exception in the Maldives, as part of a raft of significant amendments to the Sexual Offences Act (2014). The First Amendment to the Sexual Offences Act was ratified on 6 December 2021 by President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Rural Women in Peru Seed Water Today to Harvest It Tomorrow
- Inter Press Service
CUZCO, Peru, Dec 22 (IPS) - "When I was a little girl we didn't suffer from water shortages like we do now. Today we are experiencing more droughts, our water sources are drying up and we cannot sit idly by," Kely Quispe, a small farmer from the community of Huasao, located half an hour from Cuzco, the capital of Peru's ancient Inca empire, told IPS.
Biden Should Add Development to the Next Summit for Democracy - and Convene a Development Summit
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (IPS) - U.S. President Biden just hosted The Summit for Democracy to demonstrate the advantages of democracy in the global competition with authoritarian regimes. The U.S. can succeed in this competition by demonstrating to the people of developing countries (i.e., the vast majority of the world’s population) how coupling democracy and development is the best course to improve their lives.
Getting Beyond Body-Shaming
- Inter Press Service
New York, Dec 21 (IPS) - This is an age where pandemics are raging, millions live in war-torn strife, yet women are judged on their skin tones and height, says matchmaker Hirion Shah.
Guterres in Lebanon: Fair elections in 2022, an ‘essential opportunity’ for voices to be heard
- UN News
Having heard and seen for himself the suffering of Lebanon’s people, the UN chief told political leaders there on Tuesday that they “do not have the right to be divided”, leaving the nation paralysed, amidst multiple crises.
Vaccine Famine & its Impact on African Economies
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dec 21 (IPS) - We are about to start a third year of living with COVID-19. The world’s humanity and solidarity are now at its further test – and yet the implications of the absence of solidarity keep us all in the boat of mutations, lockdowns, quarantines and delayed SDGs – denied prosperity for all. 2021 has unearthed a new expression of global inequity: “vaccine nationalism” – which itself competes high with socioeconomic downturns, jobless growth, the climate crisis, and rising poverty.
What Would Europe, the US, Do with One Billion Climate Refugees?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 20 (IPS) - A bit of fiction. Or maybe not. If things keep going the way they are, the result will be that such a massive flux would create instability and tensions, impact the global markets, cause record prices of fossil fuels, food and everything else, and the bankruptcy of big private financial corporations.
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