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  1. Personal Testimonies, Pledges Mark the Start of the Fair Share to End Child Labour Campaign

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (IPS) - 152 million children are subjected to child labour. Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has brought together former child workers, international organisations, global youth, business and education leaders for a global campaign to save the.

    Selimatha Salifu of Ghana is a former child labourer who has vowed to do her part to bring attention to the plight of the world’s over 150 million child labourers. Raised in a fishing community, she recalls her days buying fish to sell, working from daybreak till nightfall to contribute to her family. She credits the General Agriculture Workers Union for rescuing her and ensuring she enrolled in school.

  2. Bidens Arms Control Ambitions are Welcomebut Delivering Them will not be Easy

    - Inter Press Service

    STOCKHOLM, Jan 22 (IPS) - Ambassador Jan Eliasson is Chair of the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Dan Smith is Director, SIPRIA deadly pandemic to control. An urgent nationwide vaccination programme to roll out. An economic crisis to navigate. Political divisions and distrust deep enough to spark mob violence and terrorism.

  3. With a War-Mongering President Gone, is the World Safe from Nuclear Brinkmanship?

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (IPS) - A war-mongering president, with his finger on the nuclear trigger--- and who threatened to attack North Korea and Iran-- was unceremoniously drummed out of office on January 20.

  4. Will Biden Administration Respond to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, End Threat of a Nuclear War & Bring Nuclear-armed States Together to Achieve Global Nuclear Disarmament?

    - Inter Press Service

    PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan 21 (IPS) - Alyn Ware is Peace and Disarmament program Director for the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Laureate in 2009. Many of us around the world breathed a sigh of relief yesterday (Jan 20) as the ‘nuclear football’ (the briefcase with nuclear weapons codes and communication links for the President to launch a nuclear attack) was passed from Mr Trump to President Biden, as the new president was inaugurated.

  5. Trump Is Gone, Trumpism Lives On

    - Inter Press Service

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    SYDNEY, Jan 21 (IPS) - Impeachment or no impeachment, Trump is out of the White House. Trump goes with an approval rating of 34%, far behind his predecessor Barack Obama’s 60%. A majority, 54%, said Trump ought to be removed from office before January 20, according to a new CNN poll, for his role in the January 6 events, when Trump incited his supporters to storm the US Capitol.

  6. As the United States Rejoins the Paris Climate Accord and Boldly Confronts Climate Change Crisis- Forget Not the Youth

    - Inter Press Service

    URBANA, Illinois, Jan 21 (IPS) - On the first day, hours after inauguration of the new Biden-Harris administration, President Biden signed an Executive Order-rejoining the United States in the Paris Climate Accord.

  7. Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on the Worlds Forests

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 21 (IPS) - The COVID-19 Pandemic has affected every sector of society and a global assessment by the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) confirms that its shocks have extended to forests on every region on earth. Impact severity varies across the Regions; Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe and other states, North America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific, but they range from an increase in illegal harvesting of forest products to loss of critical funding for forest protection agencies.

  8. Change Financing Priorities to Address COVID-19, Conference Hears

    - Inter Press Service

    TOKYO, Japan, Jan 21 (IPS) - Innovative financing to resolve COVID-19 crisis was needed, a joint African and Asian parliamentarians’ webinar heard this week.

    The webinar, facilitated by Asian Population and Development Association (APDA), was aimed at enhancing support for the implementation of International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)commitments in the face of the pandemic.

  9. A BASIC TRUTH: Facing an Existential Threat, Humanity Must Work Together

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 20 (IPS) - Siddharth Chatterjee, is UN Resident Coordinator (RC) in Kenya, and RC designate to ChinaCOVID-19 is like a rainstorm, a thunderous and powerful rainstorm all over the world. If we didn’t know before, we certainly know now just where the holes are in our roofs, or where there are no roofs. We see ever more clearly who is getting drenched and who is dying, and who remains dry.

  10. Jamaica Failing to Cope with Plastic Waste

    - Inter Press Service

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan 20 (IPS) - For decades, every time it rains heavily in Jamaica, a daunting deluge of plastic bottles and bags, styrofoam and other garbage trundles its way down a network of countless gullies and streams. If they don’t get snagged somewhere, they end up in the Kingston Harbour or close to the beaches ringing the tourist-heavy North coast.

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