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  1. Internationally COVID-19 Extracted a Heavy Toll on Older People

    - Inter Press Service

    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan 29 (IPS) - Internationally COVID-19 extracted a heavy toll on older people – raising concerns in the Asia Pacific region where more than half of the world’s ageing population live.

  2. How COVID-19 Adds to the Challenges of Leprosy-affected People

    - Inter Press Service

    HYDERABAD, Jan 29 (IPS) - Lilibeth Evarestus of Lagos, Nigeria doesn’t like the concept of handouts — she is against the idea of thinking of leprosy-affected people as weak.

    Yet, for several months now, Evarastus – a human rights lawyer and founder of community welfare organisation, Purple Hope Foundation – has been spending a lot of time on the road, distributing food items and hygiene products among the leprosy-affected people of her community.

  3. Lebanon: How to Build Back Better after Political and Economic Crisis

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (IPS) - Lebanon must “shield and preserve” the skills, knowledge, and experience of its people in order to move forward with the country’s development, according to Christophe Abi-Nassif, the Lebanon programme director for the Middle East Institute (MEI).

  4. Elections in Africa go on Amid COVID-19

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (IPS) - Franck Kuwonu, Africa Renewal Central African Republic and in Niger held their presidential and parliamentary elections on 27 December 2020 to round up a challenging year where despite fears of disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries in Africa managed to stick to their scheduled elections.

  5. Despite Petitions and Mounting Pressure, Namibia Government Proceeds with Sale of 3% of Country's Last Elephants

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (IPS) - The country’s Environment Ministry is defending the January 29 auction as a conservation strategy, but conservations say the move is based on false population statistics, disputed claims of human-elephant conflict and puts 3% of Namibia’s last elephants up for sale Over 100,000 concerned petitioners have urged the Namibian government to scrap its plan to auction off 170 wild elephants -- which include rare desert-adapted elephants -- but the country’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism said this week that today’s Jan. 29 sale will go on as planned.

  6. Cuban Farm Explores Sustainability by Hand

    - Inter Press Service

    HAVANA, Jan 28 (IPS) - Most beginnings are rocky and sometimes the obstacles seem insurmountable, before they are finally overcome. This was certainly the case for the Finca Marta, a farm in Cuba that had to begin by digging a well in search of water and with the hard-scrabble work of clearing an arid, stony and overgrown plot of land.

  7. Q&A: What Nigerian Feminists Hope will Come Out of the #EndSARS Movement & Pandemic

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 28 (IPS) - As Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, reportedly experienced a massive shortage of oxygen cylinders last week — with demand increasing fivefold in one of the city’s main hospitals just as the country recorded some of its highest number of coronavirus cases — its youth leaders are concerned about the impact on vulnerable women.

  8. Sri Lanka on Alarming Path Towards Recurrence of Grave Human Rights Violations, Says UN

    - Inter Press Service

    GENEVA, Jan 28 (IPS) - A new UN report published on Wednesday warns that the failure of Sri Lanka to address past violations has significantly heightened the risk of human rights violations being repeated.

  9. Incitement to Violence Is Rarely Explicit Here Are Some Techniques People Use to Breed Hate

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 28 (IPS) - As senators plan for an impeachment trial in which former President Donald Trump is accused of inciting his supporters to mount a deadly insurrection at the Capitol, global concern is growing about threats of violent unrest in multiple countries, including the U.S. The United Nations reports the proliferation of dangerous speech online represents a “new era” in conflict.

  10. The Struggle to End Female Genital Mutilation: A Dark Secret No More

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW DELHI, India, Jan 28 (IPS) - Survivors of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), are determined to share their stories to end this practice – even though they face ostracisation by their communities.

    Masooma Ranalvi, an FGM/C survivor and founder of ‘WeSpeakOut’, an organisation committed to eliminating FGM/C or khafd/khafz/khatna explains that FGM/C is practised by various communities in India but is prominently practised among the Dawoodi Bohras.

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