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  1. Small businesses unprepared for pandemic-sized climate shock ‘every decade’

    - UN News

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    Small businesses which make up more than half of the global workforce were 2.5 times more likely to go under than larger firms in the first months of COVID-19, the International Trade Centre (ITC) said on Wednesday, warning that the impact of climate change could cause pandemic-scale disruption “every decade”.

  2. Maldives General Assembly Presidency Renews Hope for Small Island Developing States

    - Inter Press Service

    JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Jun 23 (IPS) - Earlier this month, Abdulla Shahid, the Maldives’ foreign minister, was elected President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which commences in September.

  3. Digital Media on the Frontline: Supporting the Ones who Support the Rest

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jun 22 (IPS) - For Dr Farzana Khan, a frontline worker and a second-generation immigrant from Pakistan living in California, social media helped her connect and realign herself during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  4. The Importance of Being Listed: Why Politics Threaten the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON DC, Jun 22 (IPS) - Frontline workers who document and respond to violations against children have faced a particularly challenging last year, from the impact of Covid-19 on operations and child protection to the record levels of displacement worldwide to the ever-worsening threats from militaries and non-state armed groups.

  5. Three Million in Three Years: Jamaicas Tree-Planting to Tackle Climate Change

    - Inter Press Service

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jun 22 (IPS) - By the time he is finished, Dr. Satyanarayana Parvataneni expects he will be responsible for planting over 200,000 tree seedlings in Jamaica. It is an effort driven by a desire to preserve the planet for the next generation, as well as the one of the largest contributions to date to a national effort to plant three million trees in three years.

  6. Boldly Finance Recovery to Build Forward Better

    - Inter Press Service

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    SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 22 (IPS) - COVID-19 has become a “developing country pandemic”, retreating from the North’s mass vaccination. With developing countries heavily handicapped, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns of a “dangerous divergence”.

  7. Sowing Water: A Cuban Farm's Bid for Sustainability

    - Inter Press Service

    HAVANA, Jun 21 (IPS) - Cuban farmer José Antonio Casimiro found in the ageold technique of sowing water an opportunity to meet his farm's water needs and mitigate the increasingly visible effects of climate change.

  8. Pandemic ‘rolled back’ sustainable development funding for weak economies: UNCTAD

    - UN News

    Financial assistance to the world’s 83 weakest economies fell by 15 per cent in 2020, to $35 billion as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN trade and development experts UNCTAD said on Monday.

  9. The Dictators Daughter or the Farmers Son?

    - Inter Press Service

    LIMA, Peru, Jun 21 (IPS) - Peru’s first round of elections on 11 April saw voters choosing between 18 presidential candidates with no one candidate leading by an impressive margin.

  10. Kuciak Case Retrial An Opportunity to Break Global Cycle of Impunity in Journalist Killings

    - Inter Press Service

    BRATISLAVA, Jun 21 (IPS) - A ruling last week ordering a retrial in the murders of a Slovak journalist and his fiancée has led to a “unique” opportunity to break a global cycle of impunity in journalist killings, press freedom groups have said.

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