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UNs Double Standard on Human Rights Abusers Protects Big Powers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25 (IPS) - When the UN’s annual report on Children and Armed Conflict was released last week, it was expected to “name and shame” some of the world’s worst human rights violators – particularly the abusers of children.
To Build Back Better from the Pandemic, We Must Overhaul the Way We Deal with Development Finance
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 25 (IPS) - Over the past 18 months, the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have transformed our lives and prompted a period of deep reflection as a global community. In some sense, we are only now starting to understand our vulnerabilities, and in particular, how deeply exposed and interconnected we are as people, communities and as countries.
Weaponizing Science in Global Food Policy
- Inter Press Service
SANTA CRUZ, California, Jun 25 (IPS) - In July, the United Nations will convene “Science Days”, a high-profile event in preparation for the UN Food Systems Summit later this year. Over the course of two days, the world will be treated to a parade of Zoom sessions aimed at “highlighting the centrality of science, technology and innovation for food systems transformation.”
Water-related disasters throw up complex challenges, threaten lives and jobs
- UN News
The global climate crisis is “exacerbating and intensifying” water-related disasters, jeopardizing lives and livelihoods, the UN chief said on Friday at a major sustainable development symposium.
Southeast Asia and Food Price Inflation: Double Whammy
- Inter Press Service
Jun 24 (IPS) - In 2020, Southeast Asian countries were already facing varied challenges that affected the region’s food supplies and prices. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic later in the year exacerbated the region’s food insecurity and poverty. Southeast Asian countries need to take a hard look at food security, even as the double challenges — climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic — continue to fester.
Latin America Vastly Underspends on Green Post-Pandemic Recovery
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 24 (IPS) - Latin America is investing too little in a green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, with only 2.2% of the region's stimulus funds spent on environmentally sustainable projects last year, according to a new platform developed by Oxford University and the UN.
Global Herd Immunity Remains Out of Reach Because of Inequitable Vaccine Distribution – 99% of People in Poor Countries Are Unvaccinated
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jun 24 (IPS) - In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost. Public health experts estimate that approximately 70% of the world’s 7.9 billion people must be fully vaccinated to end the COVID-19 pandemic. As of June 21, 2021, 10.04% of the global population had been fully vaccinated, nearly all of them in rich countries.
COVID-19 as Instigator of Bigotry, Chauvinism and Megalomania
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 24 (IPS) - A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By the end of April 2019, a government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan was suspended after a series of attacks on health workers and police.
A Time for Systemic Solutions in Latin America & the Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 24 (IPS) - The first wave of COVID-19 never ended in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Since the region became a hotspot for the pandemic in June 2020, successive waves have continued to build upon the first.
130 Countries Promise to Protect and Invest in Health Care Workers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 23 (IPS) - One hundred and thirty countries have signed a statement recognising the efforts of health care workers, first responders and essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic – "one of the greatest global challenges in the history of the United Nations".
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