News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 516
Why Reproductive Rights Must Be a Critical Part of Our Arsenal to Fight Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 27 (IPS) - Sexual and reproductive health and pandemics might seem to be unrelated topics, but large and dense populations are drivers of the high velocity transmission of COVID-19, and there are lessons to be learned for the future.
Thandika Mkandawire, Pan-Africanist Par Excellence
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 27 (IPS) - Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) had a wicked sense of humour. But he was so considerate that he often made himself the butt of his jokes which typically had a moral. When others struggled to pronounce his surname, he would help them out, "Me kinda weary".
SDGs: the Challenge to Improve Lives After the COVID-19 Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - The SDGs, with their universal scope, interlinked nature and focus on leaving no one behind will be more essential than ever during and after this crisis.
COVID-19: India's Harvests also Locked Down
- Inter Press Service
NEW DEHLI, Apr 24 (IPS) - As a nationwide lockdown has confined a record 1.3 billion Indians to their homes since Mar. 24, one of the hardest hit communities has been that of Indian farmers.
Heartbreaking images of Indian farmers standing amidst swathes of rotting vegetables, fruits and grain have been flooding newspapers and TV screens lately. Crashing prices and transport bottlenecks due to the 40-day coronavirus lockdown in India, on till May 3, have driven some to set their unsold produce ablaze.
Why the Intentional Day of Multilateralism Must Start a New World Order
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 24 (IPS) -
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
― Paulo Coelho, The AlchemistIn our current COVID 19 context of suffering and fear, that may sound like a strange and spooky quote. But let's be clear: what we have achieved so far in the present is not - and shouldn't be - indicative of what we can achieve in the future.
UN’s Development GoalsThreatened by a World Economy Facing Recession
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 23 (IPS) - The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described as an integral part of its highly-ambitious development agenda, may be in deep trouble.
Collaboration Can Help Eradicate COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 23 (IPS) - Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, space for multilateral policy development and commitment has grown. Its growth in the global health field augurs well as we find ways to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Citizen Action is Central to the Global Response to COVID-19
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK and MANILA, Apr 22 (IPS) - The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created an unprecedented human and economic crisis. Governments are taking strong actions, enforcing quarantines to reduce contagion, testing populations, building emergency intensive care units. Governments have also launched large fiscal stimulus plans to protect jobs and the economy, as well as temporary social protection programs such as income/food support, subsidies to utilities and care services.
Q&A: Continued Social Distancing and Hundreds of Millions More in Poverty - A New Normal for the World?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 (IPS) - With much of the global economy stalled amid an unprecedented lockdown of nations grappling to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the author of a new United Nations report on the disease's impact on poverty told IPS that hundreds of millions more could pushed into poverty and we can expect to see social unrest.
A Global Crisis Like No Other Needs a Global Response Like No Other
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 22 (IPS) - I have been saying for a while that this is a ‘crisis like no other.' It is:
- More complex, with interlinked shocks to our health and our economies that have brought our way of life to an-almost complete stop;
- More uncertain, as we are learning only gradually how to treat the novel virus, make containment most effective, and restart our economies; and
- Truly global. Pandemics don't respect borders, neither do the economic shocks they cause.
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