Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 582
Is There Discrimination Against Women in Healthcare in India?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 05 (IPS) - In an inaugural lecture at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Amartya Sen began with a swipe at Queen Victoria who complained to Sir Theodore Martin in 1870 about "this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights'", as in her rarefied world nobody could trample upon her rights. The world has of course changed dramatically and women's rights are widely acknowledged but injustices persist.
Our concern here is with health injustices that are widely prevalent in India. These take multiple forms: female foeticide, widespread morbidity and denial of access to good quality healthcare until a critical condition develops. Our focus here is on vulnerability of women to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their limited access to good quality healthcare in India.
Women in Politics: Adornments and Witches
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Sep 04 (IPS) - Some world leaders try to prove their alpha male status by presenting attractive and submissive wives as tokens won in virile scrambles with other potent stags.
A recent example of such puerile machismo was exposed in a twitter battle between the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and his French equivalent Emmanuel Macron.
Since taking office in January, Mr Bolsonaro has railed against what he considered to be foreign meddling in Brazilian environmental politics. Wild fires raging in the Amazonian rain forest have generally been blamed on a rampant deforestation said to be endorsed by Bolsonaro´s regime.
Sri Lanka Faces Major Challenges on UN’s 2030 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 04 (IPS) - On the road to sustainable development, Sri Lanka provides an interesting case study. Having overcome a three-decade domestic conflict, Sri Lanka has begun its transformation towards a sustainable and resilient society. The extreme poverty rate ($1.90 a day) dropped to 0.8 per cent in 2016. The unemployment rate is below 5 per cent since 2010.
U.N. Criticised for Link-up with Saudi Prince MBS
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - The United Nations is under growing pressure to scrap an event it is co-hosting with the private foundation of Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, who has been linked to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Central Asia Has Always Been Important for Europe
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 03 (IPS) - In an interview* with Peter Burian, the current EU Special Representative for Central Asia.The EU has presented a new strategy for Central Asia. The first one has been adopted in 2007 and revised in 2015. Where do you see improvements?
Festival Pays Tribute to Singer, Civil-Rights Icon Nina Simone
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 29 (IPS) - It must be a daunting prospect to sing songs made famous by the incomparable Nina Simone, but performers Ledisi and Lisa Fischer brought their individual style to a BBC Proms concert in London, honouring Simone and gaining admiration for their own talent.
Triumph of the Right is Changing the World Order
- Inter Press Service
SAO PAULO, Brazil, Aug 29 (IPS) - The crisis of regional and multilateral institutions goes hand in hand with the international rise of right-wing populism. In the US, the UK, Russia, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, the Philippines and Brazil, we are experiencing the rise of right-wing populist politicians who throw headline-grabbing barbs at global compromises and the negotiating processes of supranational institutions such as the UN.
UNICEF’s Goodwill Envoy a Messenger of ill-Will, Complain Critics
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 (IPS) - When two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, refused to make a commitment not to play in South Africa, a country blacklisted for its apartheid policies, the UN children's agency stripped him of the prestigious title, back in October 1987.
Our Food Systems Need Transformation
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Aug 28 (IPS) - The right to food is a universal human right. Yet, over 820 million people are going hungry, according the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2019). In addition, 2 billion people in the world are food insecure with great risk of malnutrition and poor health" 1.
Disaster Risk Resilience: Key to Protecting Vulnerable Communities
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 28 (IPS) - The past five years have been the hottest on record in Asia and the Pacific. Unprecedented heatwaves have swept across our region, cascading into slow onset disasters such as drought.
Yet heat is only part of the picture. Tropical cyclones have struck new, unprepared parts of our region and devastatingly frequent floods have ensued. In Iran, these affected 10 million people this year and displaced 500,000 of which half were children. Bangladesh is experiencing its fourth wave of flooding in 2019. Last year, the state of Kerala in India faced the worst floods in a century.
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