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NDC Partnership: Supporting a Global Network of Youth Climate Advocates
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (IPS) - Just over six months after launching its Youth Engagement Plan, the NDC Partnership, the coalition assisting governments with their climate action plans, has brought together youth climate advocates for its inaugural NDC Global Youth Engagement Forum.
Community-Based Solutions Alleviate Water Shortages in Central America - In Pictures
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Aug 19 (IPS) - Access to water is a constant struggle in Central America, a region with more than 60 million people, many of whom live in rural areas where conditions for good quality water and enough for food production are becoming increasingly difficult.
Building Water Resilience Needs a Holistic Approach
- Inter Press Service
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, Aug 19 (IPS) - Even as COVID-19 ravages communities across the continent, climate change is widening the gap between those who have access to water and sanitation - key elements in fighting the pandemic.
Community Inclusion Currencies: Money for the People Podcast
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Aug 18 (IPS) - Do you think it’s possible to transform communities that are stagnating from a lack of currency into places where people’s income-generating activities create a vibrant, self-sustaining circular economy? It is in parts of Kenya that are using the community currency Sarafu, according to today’s guest.
How Many More Innocent Lives Must be Lost in Tigray, asks Adama Dieng
- Inter Press Service
Aug 18 (IPS) - Despite a June 30 unilateral ceasefire declaration by Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed, United Nations agencies say a recent escalation in fighting has been ‘disastrous’ for children, amid reports of over 100 children being killed in an attack on displaced families.
How to Protect Your Data from Malicious Encryption?
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Aug 18 (IPS) - Ransomware is deploying its encryption right on your computer. The malicious process runs in the background as you continue your everyday activities suspecting no cyber disaster ahead.
A New Global Agenda on Sport for 2030
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug 17 (IPS) - Does sport need to change to better serve society? What can sport and development actors do better in the future? How can sport play a greater role in contributing to development and peace? Can we reimagine the role of sport? Can we resolve the conflict and contradictions inherent within sport?
Poor Sales at Slated Namibian Elephant Auction
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Aug 17 (IPS) - A heavily criticised Namibian government sale of elephants has attracted only a third of its expected sales as government officials admit that an international outcry when the plans were announced may have put buyers off.
Privatised Health Services Worsen Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (IPS) - Decades of public health cuts have quietly taken a huge human toll, now even more pronounced with the pandemic. Austerity programmes, by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, have forced countries to cut public spending, including health provisioning.
Solar Energy Revitalises Indigenous and Farming Communities in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 16 (IPS) - Communities in Arica y Parinacota, the region in the extreme north of Chile, are using solar energy and are being empowered by projects for shrimp and trout farming, the production of yarn from camelid wool, the production of tomatoes and cheese, and even the sale of surplus solar power to the national electric grid.
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