News headlines for “Women’s Rights”, page 87
Parliamentarians Ask G7 Hiroshima Summit to Support Human Security and Vulnerable Communities
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, May 09 (IPS) - Parliamentarians from more than 30 countries agreed to send a strong message to the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Japan later this year, focusing on human security and support of vulnerable communities, including women, girls, youth, aging people, migrants, and indigenous people, among others.
One pregnant woman or newborn dies every 7 seconds: new UN report
- UN News
Global progress in reducing the premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies, has flatlined for eight years due to decreasing investments in maternal and newborn health, according to a new UN World Health Organization (WHO) report, published on Tuesday.
A New Saudi Arabia? Changes on the Screen and in Reality
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 08 (IPS) - The World changes, though prejudices and misconceptions remain. In 1996, political scientist Samuel Huntington published The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, in which he predicted that people’s cultural and religious identities would become the primary source of conflict in a Post–Cold War World.
Huntington’s allegations have been contradicted by a number of critics, among them American Palestinian professor Edward Said, who lamented their extreme cultural determinism, which omitted the dynamic interdependency and interaction of cultures.
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.
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