Global Issues
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How Vitamin-Enriched Foods can be the Gateway to Better Long-Term Nutrition
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 10 (IPS) - When one in five pre-school children is stunted due to chronic undernutrition, it is clear that global diets urgently need to improve and diversify to include more nutrient-rich fruits, vegetables and animal-source foods.
Q&A: Femicides, Domestic Violence and Online Violence Have Been Exacerbated
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Dec 10 (IPS) - "The level of injustice in the world cannot go on like this…I am not pessimistic about the future," said Gladys Acosta, president of the CEDAW Committee, in an interview with IPS in the Peruvian capital.
Plastic Trash in the Ocean is a Global Problem, and the US is the Top Source
- Inter Press Service
Dec 09 (IPS) - Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem.
ECW Joins Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies: Global Community Urged to Orange the World and End Gender-Based Violence Now
- Inter Press Service
Dec 09 (IPS) - The statistics are dire: One in three women have experienced a form of gender-based violence in their lifetime, be it sexual violence, physical violence, or child marriage. The message is clear: Women and girls deserve a safer, brighter future – free from gender-based violence.
A Call to End the Cycle of Discrimination and Exclusion of Iraqi Women
- Inter Press Service
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec 09 (IPS) - As a feminist activist and defender of women’s rights in Iraq, I would like to share with you my growing concerns about the assassinations, kidnappings, assaults, threats of assassination against and defamation of feminist activists and human rights defenders, which they have faced especially during the popular protests in October 2019–2020, all of which have occurred with impunity.
COVID-19 is biggest threat to child progress in UNICEF’s 75-year history
- UN News
The COVID-19 pandemic is rolling back progress on key childhood challenges such as poverty, health and access to education, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on Thursday, representing the biggest global crisis for children since the agency was founded 75 years ago.
Africa Free Trade Area, likely spur for growth and development
- UN News
With productivity-boosting measures, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement could reduce poverty and inequality while spurring sustainable and inclusive growth, according to a report launched on Wednesday by the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD.
Climate Crisis Exacerbates Urban Inequality in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 08 (IPS) - The Brazilian megalopolis of São Paulo recorded 932 flooded premises on Feb. 10, 2020. The Mexican city of Tula de Allende was under water for 48 hours in September 2021. In Lima it almost never rains, but the rivers in the Peruvian capital overflowed in 2017 and left several outlying municipalities covered with mud.
Unilateral sanctions particularly harmful to women, children, other vulnerable groups
- UN News
Women, children and other vulnerable groups are more likely to have their human rights impacted by unilateral sanctions, an independent UN human rights expert alerted on Wednesday.
Future Fertility Fantasies
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Dec 08 (IPS) - Many low fertility countries are having future fertility fantasies. It’s time for them to end those fantasies and prepare for a future of below replacement fertility with demographic ageing and without immigration declining populations.
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