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Wards Without Water
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Malawi, May 25 (IPS) - Malawian healthcare workers are facing challenges from all sides. More than half of healthcare facilities in Malawi are without handwashing facilities, almost two thirds have no decent toilets and almost one fifth do not have clean water on site.
Developing Countries Desperately Need COVID-19 Financing
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (IPS) - Failure to sufficiently accelerate comprehensive efforts to contain COVID-19 contagion has greatly worsened the catastrophe in developing countries. Grossly inadequate financing of relief, recovery and reform efforts has also further set back progress, including sustainable development.
A Growing Shift in the Narrative about Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) - A keen awareness about the intersection of our ecosystem and the “accelerating destabilisation of the climate” is helping shift the narrative for climate action and can help us transition from being polluters to becoming protectors of the climate, said Marco Lambertini, Director General at the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Why Our Best Defence Against Future Pandemics is Data
- Inter Press Service
EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 24 (IPS) - Although the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mission to discover its origins has proven inconclusive, the Covid-19 pandemic has nonetheless clearly highlighted the need for better care, attention, and investment in animal health systems.
Five Ways to Measure the Effects of a Crisis Like COVID-19 on Women
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (IPS) - Social issues and crises tend to affect women more severely than men. This is why terms like “gender mainstreaming policies”, “gender-responsive interventions” and “gender-based budgeting” have become more popular in public policy discussions in recent years.
Q&A: Reflecting on Five Years of Educating Children in the Throes of Crises, Emergencies and Displacement
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (IPS) - Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund that brings teaching and learning to children in emergencies and protracted crises, is observing five years of reaching boys and girls in some of the world’s hardest-hit conflict and disaster zones.
Renewable tech brings power swarming through the world’s poorest villages
- UN News
Swarm grids, an innovative technology designed to work with renewable energy sources, are bringing reliable electricity to some of the world’s poorest and remote regions for the first time, providing a major boost to the livelihoods of those who live there.
Tired with Tokenism, Youth Launch Stronger Campaign for UN Biodiversity Day
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (IPS) - International Day for Biological Diversity is observed on May 22 under the theme ‘we’re part of the solution.’ A network of youth groups is informing policymakers that young people are tired of the same old rhetoric and platitudes.
The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) has put leaders and policymakers on notice that they are not willing to listen to the same conversations, suggestions and unmet promises, as the world faces a biodiversity crisis.
UN urges worldwide support for cultural sector to aid COVID recovery
- UN News
The creative and cultural industry has played an essential role the world over throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and deserve more support moving forward, the President of the General Assembly said on Friday.
The Global Insecurity of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, May 21 (IPS) - For Sudanese youth, climate change is synonymous with insecurity.
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