News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 2
Before We Declare Gender Bias Dead, Read the Footnotes
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, November 11 (IPS) - The United Nations knows how to announce a milestone. What interests me, after a career that has included working inside UNICEF and UNDP and evaluating institutions from outside them, is what happens between the announcement and the working day.
1.5 Billion Women and Girls Live in Climate Hotspots, as UN Women Urges Stronger Action at COP31
- Inter Press Service
ANTALYA, Türkiye , November 10 (IPS) - More than one in three women and girls worldwide – at least 1.5 billion – live in climate hotspots, where high exposure to climate hazards, insecure jobs and deep gender inequality collide, according to a new UN Women fact sheet on “Gender Equality in the Age of Climate Crisis”. UN Women warns that while 73 per cent of countries recognize the climate risks facing women and girls, just over one in three address them comprehensively.
Without Action, Climate Change Could Push Women Further Behind by 2050, CGIAR Warns
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe &, November 10 (IPS) - Fetching water was once a back-breaking daily reality – one that Nomuhle SibandaMpofu will never forget.
Regime Change Blowback
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, November 10 (IPS) - Trump and Netanyahu went all out for regime change in Tehran. This month, their electorates gave them regime changes, albeit not quite what they wanted. The wars continue, but the politics have changed.
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo
- UN News
Seventy-one confirmed Ebola cases have been detected along transit routes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the outbreak began almost six months ago, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening
- UN News
Violence in northern Nigeria is fueling a growing humanitarian crisis across the whole region: 64,000 have fled to neighbouring Niger and several hundred have left for Benin since the start of the year, as host countries struggle to cope, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens
- UN News
Six journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the Egyptian fact-checking website Matsadash remain in detention, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday, warning of proliferating assaults on press freedom by the Government.
Sudan war: First suicide bombers, now long-range drone strikes are the norm
- UN News
Drones and drought are “closing in” on Sudan, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday, describing unprecedented attacks on the country’s infrastructure including by drones travelling up to 1,500 kilometres before hitting their target.
Climate crisis could push 141 million more women into extreme poverty
- UN News
More than one in three women and girls worldwide – roughly 1.5 billion – live in so-called “climate hotspots”, where high exposure to hazards such as cyclones and droughts combine with insecure jobs and deep gender inequality.
Serbia’s Student Movement: From Protest to Power
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, November 9 (IPS) - On the night of 25 October, tens of thousands filled the streets of Belgrade and other cities, as they’d so often done in protest over the past two years. But this time they came out to celebrate. In that day’s National Assembly election, Student List, a slate of political newcomers, defeated Aleksandar Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), in power since 2012. The student-led movement behind the protests, which rose up against corruption, has given Serbia the opportunity for a democratic reset.
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