News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 431
Fresh Air, Clean Water
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Jun 04 (IPS) - You want to breathe fresh air and have access to clean water? I guess you do, just like all of us. As populations in the so-called developed countries, we love to go for holidays in places where on high mountains you get to breathe deeply and enjoy the fresh air, where the oceans or lakes are clean and refreshing. And how do we arrive there? Mostly by airplanes or cars, polluting the air whilst travelling to the desired destinations, causing harm to people and the planet.
Interestingly, many people today, calculate their flight’s CO2 footprint and pay a certain amount of money to invest in renewable energy projects, in order to feel better about their travelling and to receive tax deductibility (depending on regulations of their country).
The Pandemic Should Not Leave Developing Countries Without a Voice (or a Vote)
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 04 (IPS) - Requiring in-person voting to elect the governing bodies of UN agencies may exclude the countries most affected by travel restrictions derived from the pandemic.
'Let's Talk About Sex' Discussion Highlights Risks to Women
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA and NEW YORK, Jun 04 (IPS) - Every two minutes, a girl or woman dies from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications, including unsafe abortions. Every year, around 12 million girls are married while in their childhoods. An additional 10 million are now at risk of child marriage due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Still time to reverse damage to ‘ravaged’ ecosystems, declares UN chief, marking World Environment Day
- UN News
Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, Secretary-General António Guterres launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, on the eve of World Environment Day.
From Non-aligned to One Aligned
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jun 04 (IPS) - June 4, 2021 marks 30 years since the killings of an undisclosed number of Chinese protestors at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. For many years, the Chinese government and its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with characteristic understatement, called it the ‘June Fourth incident’.
UNs Battle Against Climate Hazards Undermined by a Devastating Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - The United Nations has been in the forefront of an ongoing battle against the growing hazards of climate change, including the destruction of different species of plants and animals, the danger of rising sea-levels threatening the very existence of small island developing states (SIDS), and the risks of oceans reaching record temperatures endangering aquatic resources.
On World Environment Day -- Pakistan showcases ecosystem restoration
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jun 04 (IPS) - Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has been making sure that all foreign dignitaries visiting the country get their hands dirty. With a shovel and a watering can, they are invited to plant a tree for one of the largest reforestation initiatives in the world — the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme or TBTTP.
Indian Muslim minority targeted during COVID-19 pandemic
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Jun 03 (IPS) - A Muslim call centre operator at a COVID-19 ‘war room’, who once saw himself a COVID-warrior, is now unemployed after being falsely branded by a top politician as a key member of a bed-for-bribe scam. He is a victim of the rise in Islamophobia in India as the country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic – with scant evidence of condemnation from the authorities, say activists.
Child Marriage and Domestic Violence: What We Found in 16 African Countries
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 03 (IPS) - The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has the highest rate of child marriage, with nearly four in 10 girls married before age 18. In Niger, for example, over 77% of girls are married before the age of 18.
Agroecology Under Threat
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Jun 03 (IPS) - This week*, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is expected to endorse recommendations on agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable food systems, after an intense period of negotiation involving governments, UN agencies and institutions, Indigenous People’s organizations, civil society, and the private sector.
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