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As Climate Disaster Migration Rises, Girls Get Married Off
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Aug 25 (IPS) - When 11-year-old Mitali Padhi hugged her childhood friends to say goodbye, she felt a deep-seated foreboding.
Resilience in a Riskier World
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 25 (IPS) - Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its epicentre now in Asia, and all its tragic consequences, has exposed the frailties of human societies in the face of powerful natural forces. As of mid-August 2021, Asian and Pacific countries had reported 65 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 1 million deaths.
This is compounded by the extreme climate events which are affecting the entire world. Despite the varying contexts across geographic zones, the climate change connection is evident as floods swept across parts of China, India and Western Europe, while heatwaves and fires raged in parts of North America, Southern Europe and Asia.
“Don’t Call It Ethnic. Ituri Confict Is a Mystery”
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Aug 24 (IPS) - It is a metallic sound, harmless. It lasts just over a second, but it can become as sharp as a machete blade or as devastating as the burst from an assault rifle. It is a beep, just the beep of a phone notification. A woman is on the ground, her belly open, her intestines exposed and her severed head resting on her arm. A pagne of colorful fabric still girds her hips. Where? Why? Then, a video. Do you hear those voices? It happened there, in that village. It was them who did it, it was them.
Prioritising Profits Reversed Health Progress
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (IPS) - Instead of a health system striving to provide universal healthcare, a fragmented, profit-driven market ‘non-system’ has emerged. The 1980s’ neo-liberal counter-revolution against the historic 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration is responsible.
Solutions to Food Insecurity Top Agenda in Meeting of Small Island Developing States
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Aug 23 (IPS) - The urgency of finding solutions to the most pressing development challenges of our times has increased as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to reverse the global momentum in recent years toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And small island developing states (SIDS), with their physical remoteness, restricted land and resources and dependence on trade and tourism, are experiencing growing hardship caused by closed borders and plummeting economies.
Southern African Migrants Excluded as COVID-19 Pandemic Grows
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 23 (IPS) - Migrants across the Southern Africa region are massively disadvantaged as they find themselves excluded from vaccine programmes – even when the global vaccine initiative COVAX often funds these programmes.
Parliamentarians Determined to Reach ICPD 25 Goals
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, South Africa, Aug 23 (IPS) - Politicians from Asia and Africa shared activism anecdotes demonstrating their determination to meet ICPD 25 commitments. They were speaking at a hybrid conference held simultaneously in Kampala, Uganda, and online.
Salvadoran Migrants Still Look to the U.S. to Lift Themselves Out of Poverty
- Inter Press Service
SAN PABLO TACACHICO, El Salvador, Aug 23 (IPS) - The Joe Biden administration's call for undocumented Central American migrants not to go to the United States, as requested by Vice President Kamala Harris during a June visit to Guatemala, appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
Eastern DRC Under a State of Siege: A Bitter Pill in North Kivu
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, NORTH KIVU, DRCongo, Aug 23 (IPS) - On May 6, 2021, after a decision by President Félix Tshisekedi, a state of siege was established in Ituri and North Kivu, two provinces that are located in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and that are in the grip of endless violence.
How to Feed the World Without Starving the Planet is a $15 Billion Question
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 23 (IPS) - A population of more than 9 billion people, hotter temperatures, decaying ecosystems and increasingly severe natural disasters. That is what our world is facing by 2050 because of climate change.
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