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Press Freedom Vital in the Fight Against the Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 29 (IPS) - Access to accurate information is vitally important during the pandemic, so that people can understand how to protect themselves and their families, and to hold their governments to account for their response to the health emergency.
Spyware Threatens Press Freedoms Privacy Imperative
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - Spyware’s repeated use to target journalists and those close to them poses an existential threat to the privacy required for press freedom to flourish. Without the ability to privately communicate with sources, conduct research, and compile information, journalists are hampered in their ability to keep the public informed and hold the powerful to account.
Why Experts are Saying Its a Make or Break Moment for Forests
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 (IPS) - A new global report on forests says that while the COVID-19 pandemic is the latest threat to achieving ambitious forest protection goals, it has brought the importance of forests to global well-being into sharp focus, and that this recognition must now be met with collection action.
State of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Are Government Policies Effective in Controlling it?
- Inter Press Service
NEW JERSEY, Apr 28 (IPS) - The SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) affected the entire world; many died, millions got sick, and the misery continues. Second and third waves of SARS.Cov-2 infection are devastating most countries.
Don’t let the digital divide become ‘the new face of inequality’: UN deputy chief
- UN News
Without decisive action by the international community, the digital divide will become “the new face of inequality”, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned the General Assembly on Tuesday.
The Complex Energy Transition of Chile’s “Sacrifice Zones”
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Apr 27 (IPS) - Standing on Punta Ventanilla, Carlos Vegas, 65, looks across at the industrial park which has been there most of his life. He looks at the impact of the 15 industries spread around the bay that connects the towns of Quintero and Puchuncaví, in central Chile.
Sacred Words
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 27 (IPS) -
Forgive me,
is all that you can't say.
Years gone by and still
words don't come easily,
like forgive me, forgive me.
- Tracy ChapmanThe World Press Freedom Day on the 3rd of May is an occasion for celebrating humanity. Language enables us to transmit our thoughts in sound – a means of communication developed through our unique brain, combined with our capacity to control lips, tongue and other components of the vocal apparatus. Over time, humans have also acquired skills to commit our language to writing.
Transparency Offers Pathway to a More Sustainable Earth
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Apr 27 (IPS) - Last week, the world marked Earth Day – an opportunity to put the spotlight on the pressing needs of our planet, in the face of ever-growing impacts by humanity, and galvanize action to change practices and behavior. Yet these issues were not, and cannot be, addressed in a single day. Resolve and action to protect the environment is a 365 days-a-year endeavor.
Q&A: Drawing Attention to the Crisis in the DRCs Education Sector
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 27 (IPS) - Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central African Republic refugee children and youth to access quality education during her visit to a refugee site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from Apr. 20-23.
‘Make or break moment’ for forests
- UN News
Forests are at the core of our efforts to restore our relationship with the natural world, the deputy UN chief said on Monday at the UN Forum on Forests.
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