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Human Rights and the Global Protests: Addressing Systems as Well as Symptoms
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dec 10 (IPS) - Human rights advocates should be as concerned with the economic injustices giving rise to recent worldwide demonstrations as with the repressive responses to them.
Why Is Growth Slowing in China?
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 (IPS) - China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 14%. Since then, its growth rate has declined by more than half to 6.6% in 2018. The five-year moving average growth rate is at its lowest since reforms began in 1978, although annual growth briefly fell lower during 1979, the year of the Tian An Men incident.
South-South Cooperation Offers Solutions to Urgent Climate Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (IPS) - Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and developing countries are recognized as hotspots for climatic risks. Through solidarity, peer-to-peer learning and collective self-reliance, developing countries are collaborating among themselves to address the threat.
The World had an ‘Unprecedented’ Number of People in Humanitarian Need this Year
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (IPS) - The world had an unexpected number of people in crisis this year, which exceeded projected numbers the United Nations had expected, with climate change being one of the key crises that led to "needs to unprecedented levels" according to a new report.
Social Summit Demands Stronger Commitments in Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 09 (IPS) - As the COP25 deliberations enter the decisive final week, representatives of environmental and social organisations gathered in a parallel summit are pressing the governments to adopt stronger commitments in the face of a worsening climate emergency.
Fostering Sustainable Urbanization and Mutually Beneficial Rural-Urban Linkages for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Areas
- Inter Press Service
ROME and ACCRA, Dec 09 (IPS) -
As urbanization continues apace, coupled with rapid population growth and rural to urban migration, the challenges for inclusive rural transformation continue, and the importance of fostering improved rural-urban linkages for better food systems becomes increasingly important.
According to the UN, by 2050 some 66% of the world's population of 9 billion is expected to live in urban areas. Such rapid urbanization is increasingly shaping the rural space and rural livelihoods (through markets, demand for agricultural goods and labour, migration, and through the provision of services to rural areas). It is therefore critical for the increasing emphasis on urban development to take into account the importance of rural development.
Climate Refugees Refused UN Protection & Denied Rights Under International Law
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Spain, Dec 09 (IPS) - Miles Young is Director of the Social Development Program, Pacific Community (SPC)The term "environmental refugee" has gained prominence in recent years as climate change and desertification have threatened the livelihoods of millions of people, causing many to re-locate.
Children Risk Early Marriage: Climate Change One of the Factors
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 09 (IPS) - Filomena (15), a fisherman's daughter from a village in Nampula Province, Mozambique was married to a 21-year-old from the same village.
Building a Leprosy Free Bangladesh
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 09 (IPS) - Despite having remarkable success in leprosy control in the last decades, the Bangladesh government is now moving forward with a vision to build a leprosy- free country.
Saved Seeds are Seeds of Resilience
- Inter Press Service
People have a right to define their own food system. This includes which seeds they use. Last week, farmers in Nakuru County, Kenya, celebrated the launch of "Ten rich, underutilized crops," a publication and documentary that capture their efforts to promote and sustain the varieties they grow.
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