Global Issues
News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 79
Midwives scramble to ensure safe deliveries amid violence in Sudan
- UN News
As catastrophe grips Sudan, the UN agency for reproductive health is stepping up support, with midwives playing a key role in helping provide safe deliveries amid growing violence.
An Afghan Appeal to UN Leadership
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 04 (IPS) - We are a group of Afghans living in the country and working across sectors including peace, civil society, humanitarian aid, human rights, media, and the private sector, and are working to promote dialogue and seek long-term solutions for our country.
A Letter from Kabul
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 04 (IPS) - I am writing from Kabul where I have been living for this past 11 months. I consider myself a friend of Afghanistan, a country full of contrasts that I know since 1986; I have lived here for a little over 12 years.
How the Rise of Timor-Leste’s Aquaculture Sector Is a Blueprint for Other Small Island Nations
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Malaysia, May 03 (IPS) - Dr. Jharendu Pant is Senior Scientist – Sustainable Aquaculture Program, WorldFishFor Timor-Leste, as with most other islands in the Pacific, fortunes are to be found in fish – an equity food available to all regardless of status.
To Confront Our Current Crises, Its Time to Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan / NAIROBI, Kenya / LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg, May 03 (IPS) - The finance sector’s role in the current global crises – notably climate, biodiversity, and food security – is significant.
Polluting activities and environmentally-destructive practices for short-term economic gains have catapulted us to our current untenable situation. We're ‘sawing off the branch we’re sitting on’ by sacrificing life-giving ecosystem services for profit, and that branch is sagging and splitting under our weight.
Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF
- UN News
The practice of child marriage has continued to decline globally, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report published on Wednesday, warning that a ‘polycrisis’ including war, climate shocks, and the continuing COVID pandemic, is putting the fragile gains made towards ending the scourge, under threat.
Afghanistan: Guterres says women worker ban ‘unacceptable and puts lives in jeopardy’
- UN News
The UN chief has pledged that the Organization “will never be silent” when women and girls’ rights are under attack, as they are today in Afghanistan, and declared that the Taliban ban on Afghan women doing lifesaving humanitarian work is putting millions of lives in jeopardy there.
Guterres convenes meeting in Doha to discuss key issues in Afghanistan
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres will be in Doha, Qatar, on Monday to host a two-day meeting on Afghanistan, bringing together special envoys from various countries.
INTERVIEW: ‘Extremely difficult conversations’: Seeking justice for sexual abuse victims
- UN News
Critics have said justice takes too long, and perpetrators are not always held accountable in cases of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN personnel. Appointed by the Secretary-General in 2017, Jane Connors, the UN’s first Victims’ Rights Advocate, is tasked with getting a victim-centred approach installed across the system’s more than 35 entities.
Defending Human Rights Is a Crime in Some Countries and a Deadly Activity in Others
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 27 (IPS) - In today's world, human rights defenders face immense challenges, with threats, attacks, and repression being rampant in many countries. According to the latest report by Front Line Defenders, killings of rights defenders increased in 2022, with a total of 401 deaths across 26 different countries. Despite the adoption of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders 25 years ago, the threats faced by defenders persist globally.
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