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We Must Prioritize Local Solutions to Global Problems
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Uganda, Aug 18 (IPS) - World Humanitarian Day is the perfect time to refresh our push to localize humanitarian aid for COVID-19 and all the challenges we face. Celebrating #RealLifeHeroes!
Beating Anger into Empathy: the Need of the Hour in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 17 (IPS) - The murder of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, an icon of the Oromo people in Ethiopia was a tragic loss for all who struggle for rights in systems that fail to accommodate them.
Brain Scientists Haven't Been Able to Find Major Differences Between Women's and Men's Brains, Despite Over a Century of Searching
- Inter Press Service
Aug 17 (IPS) - People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes. Gustave Le Bon found men's brains are usually larger than women's, which prompted Alexander Bains and George Romanes to argue this size difference makes men smarter. But John Stuart Mill pointed out, by this criterion, elephants and whales should be smarter than people.
Q&A: Family Farming in Latin America & the Caribbean Hard Hit by COVID-19 Restrictions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) - With limited transport options to carry their goods to the market, lack of protective gear, and limited financial resources, family farmers across Latin America are facing grave consequences as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Enough Is Not Enough - A Call for an Urgent Change of the Mexican Economic Policy
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 14 (IPS) - A group composed by women and men, called Nuevo Curso de Desarrollo (New Course for Development) based at the National University of Mexico recently published a document to propose a set of measures to change the current economic policy in Mexico.
This proposal responds to a diagnosis of the current situation: at this point of the year, the serious social damage inflicted by the health and economic crisis can already be observed.
If Trump Delivers His Last Hurrah to an Empty United Nations, Will it Still Make a Sound?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 (IPS) - There is no love lost between the United Nations and US President Donald Trump.
When he addressed the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in September 2018, Trump falsely told delegates that "in less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country"
No More Lost Generations: Global Fund Provides Education for Children in Crisis
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Aug 14 (IPS) - 15-year-old Humaira* sits on the mud floor of her hut in Ukhiya camp, Cox's Bazar, listening as the rain beats down on the tarpaulin roof.
Young South Africans are Shut Out From Work: They Need a Chance to Get Digital Skills
- Inter Press Service
Aug 13 (IPS) - Most young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa continue to be denied access to information and communications technology because of poor infrastructure and the digital divide.
Keeping Education within the Grasp of Refugee Children
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Aug 13 (IPS) - "Not being able to go to school is not something I'd wish on any child in this world," said 21-year-old Nujeen Mustafa, a young advocate for refugees who fled the Syrian war with her sister. Mustafa, who now lives in Germany, is also the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) high profile supporter.
Debt Hawks Detract from Urgently Needed Fiscal Recovery Efforts
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (IPS) - Developing country debt has continued to grow rapidly since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis (GFC). Warnings against debt have been reiterated by familiar prophets of debt doom such as new World Bank chief economist, Carmen Reinhart, once dubbed the ‘godmother of austerity'.
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