Global Issues
News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 60
Charting Out a Sustainable Path for Island, Coastal Communities Facing Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 11 (IPS) - There is an irreparable connection between culture and the seas: loss of land due to rising sea levels and loss of livelihood due to changing fish migration patterns are having a massive impact on coastal communities.
Sikh Faith Inspires Environmental Stewardship
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 11 (IPS) - Dr Jasdev Singh Rai, an accomplished ENT doctor who hails from London, is not just attending COP 28; he is representing an organization that brings a unique perspective to the global stage.
Greening Education: Education Paying Highest Cost for Ongoing Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 09 (IPS) - It is a global catastrophe of astounding proportions that millions of children are on the run today, forcibly displaced from their homes. As conflict and climate change increasingly become the most pressing challenges facing the world now, the number of displaced children has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching a record high of 43.3 million children.
Faith Pavilion Adds Spiritual Dimension to Climate Crisis Resolution
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 07 (IPS) - For the first time at COP28, faith has a pavilion alongside science, technology, nations, and philanthropy, allowing religious leaders from all over the world to discuss the potential for using spiritual merits to protect the earth from climate change.
The Climate Crisis is an Education Crisis
- Inter Press Service
London/New York, Dec 05 (IPS) - “The one international language the world understands” wrote Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, “is the cry of a child,” and the evidence is accumulating that children are not only the innocent victims of conflict whose pleas need to be heard, but also the most vulnerable victims of climate change.
Netherlands Latest Country to Tilt to the Right
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Dec 04 (IPS) - The Netherlands is the latest country to lurch to the right amid the global cost of living crisis. Its November election saw maverick far-right populist Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) come first. A hardline Islamophobe who’s called for the Quran to be banned could be the next prime minister.
Lawmakers Told: Plan From the Cradle For Healthy Aging
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG & TASHKENT, Dec 04 (IPS) - Lawmakers were reminded of the benefits of long-term planning and the benefits of evidence-based decision-making in policymaking while grappling with demographic trends, be they an aging population or one with significant growth in youth, like that of Uzbekistan.
COP28: Women and climate advocates driving forward change together
- UN News
To combat the disproportionate impacts of climate change on women, advocates at COP28 on Monday said decisionmakers must not only enact more polices that meet their specific needs but recognize the unique knowledge and expertise women can offer that can be used to support effective climate action.
Why is There Funding for War But Never for Climate finance, Ask Feminists
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Dec 02 (IPS) - The Feminist Green New Deal Coalition has highlighted feminist climate solutions and shared feminist policies and frameworks that are advancing just climate policies at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai.
Argentina Plunges into the Unknown
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov 28 (IPS) - For many of Argentina’s voters the choice on 19 November was between the lesser of two evils: Sergio Massa, the minister overseeing an economy with the world’s third-highest inflation rate, or Javier Milei, an erratic far-right libertarian outsider promising to shut down the Central Bank, adopt the US dollar as the currency, cut taxes and privatise public services.
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