News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 134
A Sustainable Future within Reach: The Promise of Digital Transformation
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 02 (IPS) - The development paradigm has shifted to ‘digital by default' as a norm, reshaping societies and economies. As a hub for digitally driven innovations, Asia and the Pacific is well positioned to leverage the transformative potential of digital technologies to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
In Tonga the UN Secretary-General Declares a Global Climate Emergency
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY & NUKU'ALOFA, Aug 30 (IPS) - Three months ahead of the COP29 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for an emergency response from the international community as new data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reveals a critical deterioration in the state of the climate.
Humanitarian Crisis As Floods, Prolonged Heavy Rains Impact Chad
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (IPS) - Since June of this year, Chad has been facing an elongated period of heavy rainfall. Major flooding has triggered the onset of a significant humanitarian crisis, as all aspects of Chadian life, including health, food production, and community, have been negatively impacted. Additionally, response plans are severely compromised due to high levels of hostility taking place in neighbouring nations.
UN Polio Vaccine Campaign in Gaza To Proceed In Humanitarian Pause
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 (IPS) - The UN's multi-agency polio vaccine campaign in Gaza is set to begin this weekend. It will do so under continued constraints on humanitarian operations and mobility, but with the assurance from Israel to pause fighting for the campaign to go ahead.
Guterres highlights Timor-Leste’s ‘growing international influence’
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General continued his historic visit to Timor-Leste on Thursday, emphasising the positive role the country can play on the regional stage to help resolve the crisis in war-wracked Myanmar.
Hostility in the midst of Hunger Escalates in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) - The ongoing humanitarian crisis taking place in Sudan, which is a result of the civil war which began last year, continues to escalate as hunger and displacement plague the population, according to spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stéphane Dujarric, during an August 21st press briefing.
Struggling at Sea: The Plight of Indian Fishworkers Amid Climate Change and Government Policies
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (IPS) - Warming seas from climate change means that Indian fisherworkers often travel illegally into international territorial waters in search of a good catch and find themselves jailed and their boats confiscated, driving their families into poverty.Climate change forces millions of India's fishworkers to venture beyond the country's exclusive economic zone into the perilous high seas.
Global Poverty Grows as Super-Rich Get Richer Faster
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 28 (IPS) - Oxfam expects the world's first trillionaire within a decade and poverty to end in 229 years! The wealth of the world's five richest men has more than doubled from 2020, as 4.8 billion people became poorer.
In Timor-Leste, Guterres celebrates past unity and looks to the future
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres received a warm welcome in the capital of Timor-Leste on Wednesday where he hailed the 25th anniversary of its vote for independence, praising the national unity of the past, and pledging the UN’s unwavering support in the future.
Recovering Bangladesh’s Stolen Wealth
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC, Aug 27 (IPS) - Bangladesh bleeds as over US$3 billion drains from Bangladesh annually through offshore accounts. According to a recent report, close to US$150 was siphoned off the country during 15 years of kleptocratic Hasina regime's mis-rule. Nearly US$50 billion went out of the country in the first six years (2009-2015) of the Hasina regime.
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