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‘The Authoritarian Regime Uses Collective Punishment to Discourage Any Challenge to Its Authority’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses the deaths of Indigenous activists in custody in Tajikistan with Khursand Khurramov, an independent journalist and political analyst.
Struggle For Water Continues Following Israeli Attacks on Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, September 17 (IPS) - Just under a year into a fragile ceasefire, 150,000 people in southern Lebanon continue to deal with the potentially lethal aftermath of Israeli bombing, highlighting the devastating long-term effects of conflict.
When Civil Society is Kept Outside, We Should Build a Bigger Room
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, September 17 (IPS) - The recent IPS article, “UNGA’s High-Level Meetings: NGOs Banned Again,” served as a stark and painful reminder of a long-standing paradox: the United Nations, an organization founded on the principle of “We the Peoples,” often closes its doors to the very communities it was created to serve.
AfDB Commits 11 Billion Dollars To Support Early Warning Systems, Food Security in Rural Africa
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, September 16 (IPS) - As increasingly frequent droughts and devastating floods are affecting agricultural productivity, leaving millions of people food insecure in Africa amid a lack of climate finance, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed USD 11 billion to support various climate-resilient and infrastructure projects in rural areas.
Why Collective Healing is Central to Peacebuilding
- Inter Press Service
BENGALURU, India, September 15 (IPS) - Wars and oppression leave behind not just rubble and graves. They leave behind invisible wounds, profound trauma carried by survivors. And most often, women carry the largest burden. They are targeted not only because of their gender, but because surviving and leading threaten structures based on patriarchy and domination.
AI Governance: Human Rights in the Balance As Tech Giants and Authoritarians Converge
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 15 (IPS) - Algorithms decide who lives and dies in Gaza. AI-powered surveillance tracks journalists in Serbia. Autonomous weapons are paraded through Beijing’s streets in displays of technological might. This isn’t dystopian fiction – it’s today’s reality. As AI reshapes the world, the question of who controls this technology and how it’s governed has become an urgent priority.
NGOs on a Virtual Blacklist at UN High-Level Meetings of World Leaders
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 15 (IPS) - When the high-level meeting of over 150 world political leaders takes place September 22-30, thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their accredited UN representatives will either be banned from the UN premises or permitted into the building on a strictly restricted basis– as it happens every year.
The United Nations Turns 80: a Miracle it has Lasted So Long
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Chile, September 12 (IPS) - At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Nepal Faces Political Crisis after Deadly Gen-Z Protests
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, September 10 (IPS) - Nepal entered into a new era of constitutional and political crisis after deadly protests by the deeply frustrated young generation (Gen-Z). Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday after protests grew out of control.
50 Years On: Lebanon’s Civil War, Feminist Peacebuilding, and the Fight Against Silence
- Inter Press Service
BENGALURU, India, September 8 (IPS) - This year marks half a century since the start of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975 – a conflict that lasted 15 years, killed over 150,000 lives, and resulted in as many as 17,000 missing. Decades later, the legacy of that war is still everywhere: in the silence of classrooms without history books, in families who never knew what happened to their missing loved ones, and in violence made mundane in all parts of society.
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