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Women Will Not Reach Parity at the Pinnacle of Power for Another 130 Years, Predicts UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) - The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the furthest from achieving gender parity in an increasingly male-dominated power structure worldwide.
Only Small Percentage of COVID-19 Recovery Allocated to Green Initiatives
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) - Last year, only $368 billion of a $14.6tn budget geared towards COVID-19 recovery measures across the world’s largest 50 countries took into account green recovery initiatives, according to a report launched yesterday, Mar. 10.
More Can & Must be Done to Eradicate Caste-Based Discrimination, Says UN Rights Chief
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 11 (IPS) - There is hardly a better way to promote human rights in Nepal than celebrating Muskan Khatun for being one of the winners of the prestigious International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award, released on the International Women’s Day by the Government of the United States of America.
Extent of Violence Against Women During Pandemic Exposed
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 11 (IPS) - COVID-19 restrictions exposed women and girls to heightened abuse – revealing the conditions in which gender-based violence became the shadow pandemic on the continent, a recent webinar attended by parliamentarians from Africa and Asia heard.
Death of an Ambassador and the Congolese Slaughter
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 10 (IPS) - On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another one with the Italian ambassador, Luca Anastasio, was driving along Route Nationale 2 passing by The Virunga National Park, an UNESCO Congolese World Heritage Site famous for its dwindling population of unique mountain gorillas.
Malawian Youth Wipe Away Unemployment Tears with Agribusiness
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Malawi, Mar 10 (IPS) - After getting tired of searching for employment for seven years, Feston Zale from Chileka area in Malawi’s Southern Region decided to venture into agribusiness.
Can Free Phones Close the Digital Gender Divide?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 10 (IPS) - The gender gap in mobile phone ownership is well-documented. For years now, the financial inclusion community has been trying to get phones into the hands of more women at the last mile — spurred on by mounting evidence that mobile money can increase women’s financial resilience, expand their economic opportunities and improve their intra-household bargaining power.
Down in Hell
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 09 (IPS) - I am about 200 feet down a rickety old mine shaft, in the Ashanti gold mining region of Ghana. It is stiflingly hot and darker than a moonless night. I can only feel the touch of sweaty bodies passing in the darkness and hear the reverberating sound of miners coughing and breaking rocks. The lack of oxygen and dust make it hard to breathe. I have no idea how deep this shaft goes – hundreds of feet? More? If there is a Hell this must be what it feels like.
What Africa Expects of New WTO Chief Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) - When on 15 February the chair of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) General Council, Ambassador David Walker of New Zealand, announced that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala would be the new Director-General, the mood among delegates was of relief.
Prioritise Pandemic Relief, Recovery: No Time for Debt Buybacks
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 09 (IPS) - Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest fiscal resources to pay down accumulated debt instead of strengthening pandemic relief and recovery. Thus, debt phobia risks deepening and extending COVID-19 recessions by prioritising buybacks.
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