News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 215
AI tools like ChatGPT likely to complement jobs, not destroy them: ILO
- UN News
ChatGPT is not coming for your job and might even enhance it, experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report published this week.
Moving From Trauma to Healing: Practicing Self-Care in Refugee Camps
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (IPS) - A Rohingya woman tells a forum of peer counselors the story of her divorce. A survivor of domestic abuse, she has started a new life alone with her daughter. She has weathered a storm of neighbors telling her she was the problem. Now, she provides the support she didn’t have to other women like her.
Water Action Agenda takes shape in Stockholm flowing on from landmark conference
- UN News
The biggest water conference of the year is now underway. You might be thinking, wasn’t that the UN Water Conference? Two separate events - but there is spillover.
Building a digital army: UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation
- UN News
With smartphones, editing apps, and innovative approaches, some UN peacekeeping operations across the world are building a “digital army” aimed at combating mis- and disinformation on social media networks and beyond.
Senegal: Democracy in the Balance?
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 18 (IPS) - Civic space is deteriorating in Senegal ahead of next February’s presidential election. Recent protests have been met with lethal violence and internet and social media restrictions. Senegal’s democracy will soon face a key test, and whether it passes will depend largely on whether civic space is respected.
Floods, Now Torrential Monsoon Rains Leave Pakistani Women in Crisis
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN, Aug 18 (IPS) - Torrential monsoon rains have left the people, especially women, in crisis as they are still grappling to recover from the last year’s floods in Pakistan.
Afghans are ‘out of options’ and desperately need realistic alternatives to poppy cultivation
- UN News
As Afghanistan’s widespread economic crisis drags on and jobs become scarcer, the women of Dogabad village are finding innovative ways to support their loved ones, even as their own lives seem grimmer than ever. In this impoverished neighbourhood of Kabul, against all odds, women are taking the lead.
Fragility & Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 17 (IPS) - In 1990, about half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East Asia and the Pacific were living in extreme poverty (defined as living on less than what today amounts to around $2.15 per person per day).
World Leaders Need to Prioritize the More Than 1 Billion People Living in Informal Settlements
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug 16 (IPS) - When representatives from dozens of countries gathered recently at the UN High Level Political Forum in New York to share progress on their efforts to achieve the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this disturbing reality was clear: the world is not even close to meeting the goals by 2030 as intended.
Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 16 (IPS) - Kenya’s fight for food security may have just gone ‘Old School’ as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way off consumers’ plates.
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