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An Appeal to UN’s Budget Committee: It’s no Time to Cut Back on Child Protection
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 29 (IPS) - The United Nations commemorates International Day of UN Peacekeepers on 29 MayOn February 26 this year, 15 South Sudanese children were released from armed groups and handed over to civilian child protection actors, including UNICEF and UNMISS, UN's peacekeeping operation in South Sudan, who were able to facilitate the children's safe return to their families.
Reproductive Rights of Women and Girls Under Lockdown
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT / GENEVA, May 28 (IPS) - Health systems around the world are prioritising health care services and equipment to treat people diagnosed with Covid-19, which means that many procedures deemed to be elective and non-essential are being suspended or simply not provided. Abortion, for instance, has been categorised as a non-essential health service by some States, while others have removed certain restrictions to accessing abortion.
Triple Emergencies of COVID-19, Flooding & Locusts Makes Somalia Susceptible to Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, May 28 (IPS) - While simultaneously suffering from the coronavirus pandemic, flooding and a locust crisis, Somalia, could well see a rise in the number of people who are susceptible to human trafficking.
Memo from a Multi-Millionaire: Covid-19 Proves Business Case for Taxing the Rich
- Inter Press Service
COPENHAGEN, May 28 (IPS) - For the past few decades, many big corporations and very wealthy individuals have operated according to the myth that they are "self-made", that their success owed nothing to anyone else.
LIVE STREAM: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Brundtland on Pandemic Leadership
- Inter Press Service
May 27 (IPS) - Between 2002 and 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) faced the first pandemic of the globalized 21st century, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
How a Post-COVID-19 Revival Could Kickstart Africa's Free Trade Area
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 27 (IPS) - The African Continental Free Trade Area was launched two years ago at an African Union (AU) summit in Kigali. It was scheduled to be implemented from 1 July 2020. But this has been pushed out until 2021 because of the impact of COVID-19 and the need for leaders to focus on saving lives.
Digital Agriculture Benefits Zimbabwe's Farmers but Mobile Money is Costly
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 27 (IPS) - In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed a rapid growth in the use of digital agriculture but uptake of modern technology is capital intensive for farmers.
UN@75 & the Future We Want
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, May 27 (IPS) -Crises make us think smaller. When everything is uncertain, we turn inward: to our families, our communities, the immediate needs around us. We focus on the essential and the immediate; we survive.
SDG Setback 'Tremendous' as COVID-19 Accelerates Slide
- Inter Press Service
May 26 (IPS) - Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United Nations Secretary-General warns in a new report, as the COVID-19 outbreak moves from being a health crisis to becoming the "worst human and economic crisis of our lifetimes".
Ensuring Biodiversity Now will Prevent Pandemics Later
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 26 (IPS) - A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international and local levels and by ensuring biological diversity preservation around the world, experts recently said.
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