News headlines for “Women’s Rights”
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: ‘A New World Order Is Going to Emerge, Whether We like It or Not’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses the case for United Nations (UN) reform with Heba Aly, director of the Article 109 Coalition, an international civil society network that calls on states to review and update the UN Charter.
Africa–Asia: Turning Demographic Change into Opportunity
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA & CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 12 (IPS) - Although Africa and Asia face different demographic challenges, they share a common imperative: ensuring that legislation, policies and budgets translate into tangible improvements in people’s lives.
‘The War Must Stop’: Nobel Peace Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on the Urgent Need to Protect Ukraine’s Women and Children
- Inter Press Service
BENGALURU, India, November 12 (IPS) - Four years after Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, the human cost of the war keeps rising. Even though the global public eye is primarily glued to the progress of the conflict itself, its geopolitical implications and territorial bargaining, the millions of Ukrainian women and children experience the burden of this war that changed their lives and future forever.
I Sustain My Accusation
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, November 12 (IPS) - This is the final article in a four-part series with related titles, highlighting the responsibility of mainstream media and religious leaders for the world’s current appalling state and the calamities that may await future generations if proper measures are not taken in time. When megalomania is given a “human face,” historical facts are distorted, acts of aggression are whitewashed, unlawful wars are portrayed as vehicles of “democracy, human rights, and morality,” other people’s intelligence is undermined and mocked, bias overshadows international norms, and religion becomes an instrument of bigotry, I sustain my accusation:
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026
- Inter Press Service
For millions of women around the world, violence is not a distant threat. It is a reality experienced in homes, communities, workplaces and increasingly, online.
FRANCE: ‘The Government Should Learn to Respect Its People, Listen to Them and Consult Them’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses France’s student protest movement with Aminata and Mariam Touré, two sisters involved in the protests. Aminata is a member of the Popular Youth Front (Front de la Jeunesse Populaire), a collective of young people from working-class neighbourhoods.
From Nuclear Weapons to Artificial Intelligence, a New Test of Humanity’s Restraint
- Inter Press Service
ASSISI, Italy, November 11 (IPS) - Eight decades after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world is confronting a new and potentially dangerous question: What happens when decisions involving human life increasingly pass from people to machines?
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.
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