Global Issues
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WTO Finished Without TRIPS Waiver
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 16 (IPS) - Quickly enabling greater and more affordable production of and access to COVID-19 medical needs is urgently needed in the South. Such progress will also foster much needed goodwill for international cooperation, multilateralism and sustainable development.
What Governments Should Learn from The Climate Activists
- Inter Press Service
Nov 15 (IPS) - Shantha Rau Barriga is the disability rights director and the lead on Strategy Development at Human Rights Watch“Nothing about us without us” – that was the call from the indigenous rights advocate Ghazali Ohorella from the Alifuru people in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia during a panel at the climate summit in Glasgow.
Growing Digital Divide Threatens Recovery from Covid-19
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 15 (IPS) - A growing digital divide is emerging as a major threat to a robust recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Inequity in Funding: Africa’s Agripreneurs Pay a High Price for Start Up Finance
- Inter Press Service
Nov 15 (IPS) - Africa has pinned its hopes on agriculture for the creation of jobs and the resulting reduction of poverty. But its role is being stymied by the high cost of financing.
Asian Staffers at UN Launch Network to Protect Rights & Fight Racism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (IPS) - The United Nations, which consists of 193 member states, has long been accused of discrimination against staffers who number over 315,000 and spread across 56 UN agencies and entities worldwide.
Glasgow Summit Ends Amidst Climate of Disappointment
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Nov 14 (IPS) - Developing countries will surely remember the Glasgow climate summit, the most important since 2015, as a fiasco that left them as an afterthought.
In post-quake Haiti, rebuilding lives and welcoming new ones
- UN News
Three months after a devastating earthquake struck the south-west of Haiti, a hospital that was largely destroyed has continued to give mothers and their babies the care they need.
Climate action can deliver a sustainable future for all: UN deputy chief
- UN News
Climate action can be the driver for a green and equitable future for all, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has said at the TED Countdown Summit, urging people everywhere to demand that leaders deliver on their promise to limit global warming.
Diabetes Equates the Rich and the Poor
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 12 (IPS) - Although for different reasons, diabetes appears to be one of the few cases that put rich and poor societies at equal footing. In either case, diabetes is caused by wrong, dangerous to health nutritional habits.
Rich Food from Poor Fish, Making Food and Health Sustainable
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 12 (IPS) - During the COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda, a breastfeeding mother struggled to improve the health of her malnourished child. With the closure of her local health centre, she worried the child could die without urgent medical treatment.
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