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The Demise of Democracy and Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh: International Financial Institutions’ Culpability
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC, Aug 06 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh. They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations – such as forced disappearances and tortures in custody – and riggings of votes, including politicization of state institutions in its slide into autocracy. This is despite their professed commitment to transparency, accountability and good governance (IMF, World Bank, ADB).
Chilean Fisherwomen Seek Visibility and Escape from Vulnerability
- Inter Press Service
PAREDONES, Chile, Aug 05 (IPS) - The number of organisations that bring together fisherwomen who seek to be recognised as workers, make their harsh reality visible and escape the vulnerability in which they live is growing in Chile.
Partnering for Progress: Maldives' Sustainable Ocean Initiatives
- Inter Press Service
MALE, Maldives, Aug 02 (IPS) - The ocean is our lifeline, covering 70 percent of the earth’s surface, it is the source of half of the oxygen we breathe, and it absorbs 26 percent of the carbon dioxide we produce. It is home to millions of marine species, contains 97 percent of all of the water on our planet and offers humankind immense resources.?
Heat claims more than 175,000 lives annually in Europe, latest data shows
- UN News
A staggering 175,000 people die from heat-related causes every year in Europe and that figure is set to soar in line with our steadily warming planet. That’s the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), which said on Friday that European countries are seeing temperatures rise at around twice the global average.
Cambodia’s Young Environmental Activists Pay a Heavy Price
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 01 (IPS) - It’s risky to try to protect the environment in authoritarian Cambodia. Ten young activists from the Mother Nature environmental group have recently been given long jail sentences. Two were sentenced to eight years on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Another seven were sentenced to six years for plotting, while one, a Spanish national banned from entering Cambodia, was sentenced in absentia.
The Price Women Pay for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 31 (IPS) - Global warming, widely believed to be a universal crisis, will actually impact girls and women far more than boys and men. It is already known that we live in a patriarchal world, one in which men are afforded far greater opportunities for success while women generally hold less societal power and have access to fewer resources. This especially pertains to developing countries in which agriculture related work, usually delegated to females, depends on a variety of environmental factors and subsequently, significantly hurts their livelihoods.
Sportwashing Allegations at Africa's Top Football Tournament
- Inter Press Service
Jul 30 (IPS) - Following the recent Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Ivory Coast, a continent-wide campaign has emerged on social media challenging the tournament's main sponsor, TotalEnergies, over its involvement in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).
SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE: The UN Secretary-General Underestimated the Difficulty of Reaching Consensus
- Inter Press Service
Jul 30 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the upcoming Summit of the Future with Renzo Pomi, who represents Amnesty International at the United Nations (UN) in New York.
Life or Energy: The Hydroelectric Dilemma in Amazonian Brazil
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, Jul 28 (IPS) - The decade-and-a-half-long battle for life in the so-called Volta Grande (Big Bend) of the Xingu river, a stretch of the river dewatered by the Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant in the Brazilian Amazon, has a possible solution, albeit a partial one.
UN: Extreme Heat a Global Issue With an Unequal Impact
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - “The world must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures," says the UN Secretary-General as he launches a call to action on extreme heat and its impact on society and the environment.
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