Global Issues
News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 594
Sustainable Development Goals: One of the Greatest Fun Things in the World!?
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, May 06 (IPS) - Inge Kaul is adjunct professor, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and first director of UNDP's Offices of the Human Development Report and Global Development Studies.
This year's annual "SDG Global Festival of Action" was held in Bonn, Germany, from May 2–4, 2019. The festival's overall aim is to gather campaigners and multiple stakeholders from around the world at one place for interaction with each other; furthermore, it seeks to inspire them to scale up action in support of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set forth in the 2030 Agenda adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
COTONOU, Benin, May 03 (IPS) - This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
On a bus in Cotonou, Benin's commercial capital, four Nigerian girls aged between 15 and 16 sit closely together as they are about to embark on the last part of their journey to Mali, where they are told that their new husbands, whom they never have met, await them.
LGBTQI Rights in the Balkans: A Perpetual Struggle
- Inter Press Service
BUCHAREST, Romania, May 03 (IPS) - Mawethu Nkhosana is an LGBTI activist and the crisis response fund administrator at CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations.
Romanian Adrian Coman and his American-born partner Clai Hamilton had two major reasons to celebrate when they tied the knot last June.
Women, Peace and Security: Let’s Turn Words into Action
- Inter Press Service
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 03 (IPS) - Dr. Denis Mukwege is founder of Panzi Hospital and Foundation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 with Nadia Murad.
To be able to tackle a problem we must first recognize that it exists. When I first spoke at the United Nations Security Council in 2009, I was asked why the issue of sexual violence was even relevant to peace and security. At that time, it was not generally accepted that rape is in fact a weapon of war. Today, that statement is both widely accepted and central to the international community's understanding of this crucial issue.
Want Social Change? Give Communities More Agency
- Inter Press Service
DEWAS, India, May 03 (IPS) - No external force can bring about real change in society. Only the community itself can.
Sierra Leone’s Journalists Demand Justice for “Murdered” Colleague and Call for Law Reform
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 02 (IPS) - This is part of a series of features and op-eds to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
Ibrahim Samura, erstwhile editor and publisher of New Age, an independent Freetown newspaper, was beaten up with "heavy-duty metal chains and sticks" during Sierra Leone's presidential run-off election in March 2018—in front of the police and army. He died from his injuries three months later. But more than a year since the assault the perpetrators are yet to be brought to book.
4 Revolutionary Tips to Stop Aquaculture and Fisheries Ignoring, Resisting or Eroding Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, May 02 (IPS) - Meryl Williams, Chair, Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section of the Asian Fisheries Society
In my years in fisheries research in Australia, few researchers were women, all fishers were assumed to be men, "girly" calendars were occasionally pinned on the office, lab or tea room wall at work and the workplace rules of engagement for women were still being worked out by trial and error. I vividly remember when my colleague, "Jessie", the only woman technician in our research agency, was assigned to go into the field for a week to support a fish tagging project run by men scientists. The men took umbrage and went to the Union to protest this affront to their work conditions. The Union warned them that they could be sacked for discriminating against a woman. So change was at hand - or so it seemed.
Future of Our Planet Requires Deeper Cooperation, Long-term Thinking
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 02 (IPS) - LIU Zhenmin is Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations.
For most of the 7 billion people on the planet, global institutions are remote, far removed from their day to day existence. Yet, our global institutions matter.
On World Press Freedom Day, Let us Ask: #WhereIsAzory?
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 02 (IPS) - Muthoki Mumo is the Sub-Saharan Africa representative for the Committee to Protect Journalist.
Speaking in parliament recently, Tanzania's information minister, Harrison Mwakyembe, wondered why people were still concerned about the whereabouts of Azory Gwanda, a freelance journalist who went missing in November 2017 in the country's Coast Region.
Are Migrant Workers Humans or Commodities?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 01 (IPS) - The United Nations has estimated a hefty $466 billion as remittances from migrant workers worldwide in 2017—and perhaps even higher last year.
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