News headlines for “Non-governmental Organizations on Development Issues”, page 30

  1. Life-Changing Quarry Mining Shatters Lives in Zimbabwe

    - Inter Press Service

    BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 26 (IPS) - On Christmas Day in 2022, 27-year-old Thabani Dlodlo’s eight-year-old son drowned in a flooded pit dug up by quarry miners in the vicinity of Pumula North, a high-density suburb in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city.

  2. Civil Society at the Finance in Common Summit Calls for Community-led, Equitable, and Human Rights-based Development

    - Inter Press Service

    CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Feb 24 (IPS) - As public development banks gather for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town, South Africa, civil society and community activists from across the world are demanding a shift to a community-led, equitable, and human rights-based development approach, that prioritise people and planet over profit, and a reform of the global financial architecture.

  3. Is the UN's Human Rights Agenda in Jeopardy?

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24 (IPS) - The UN’s human rights agenda is in danger of faltering since the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) is planning to “restructure” the office, under the moniker OHCHR 2.0.

    But this proposal, if implemented, would result in the abolition of the Special Procedures Branch, established by the Human Rights Council (HRC), to report and advise on human rights from thematic and country-specific perspectives.

  4. Blamed for Causing Droughts: Zimbabwe’s LGBTQI Community Faces Climate Crisis Head-on

    - Inter Press Service

    MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 20 (IPS) - Wrongfully accused of causing droughts, a group of LGBTQI people in Zimbabwe involved themselves in climate-smart agriculture and are now showing the way to mitigate climate change in a country recently devastated by El Niño-induced drought.Takudzwa Saruwaka is hoeing weeds in a cowpea field in eastern Zimbabwe one morning in February, trying to beat torrential rains threatening from the gray clouds above.

  5. Trump’s War on Global Governance: Lessons from the Past on How to Fight Back

    - Inter Press Service

    PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb 19 (IPS) - Daniel D. Bradlow is Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.US president Donald Trump’s recent actions seem designed to reassert American power and demonstrate that it is still the dominant global power and is capable of bullying weaker nations into following America’s lead.

  6. Trump’s Proposed Gaza Takeover Denounced as “Mad Ethnic Cleansing Plan”

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 (IPS) - President Trump—whose rash and ill-conceived proposals continue unabated—has threatened to “seize Gaza,” turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, two longstanding American allies who depend heavily on US support for their survival.

    The US President has also hinted that both countries would suffer either cutbacks or elimination of billions of dollars in economic and military aid —if they refuse to cooperate with him.

  7. World’s Largest Religious Gathering Becomes Trans-Inclusive

    - Inter Press Service

    PRAYAGRAJ, India, Feb 18 (IPS) - Despite a blazing sun and growing heat, Pavitra Nandagiri sits on a cot smiling. Clad in a saffron robe and headgear with her forehead painted with turmeric and vermillion, Nandagiri is a Mahamandaleshwar—one of the highest-ranking monks of the Kinnar Akhada (Transgender Arena) at the Maha Kumbh, the world’s largest religious gathering currently underway in northern India.

  8. Human Rights, Healthcare Disrupted in Eastern Europe With USAID Funding Freeze

    - Inter Press Service

    Feb 17 (IPS) - As the full effects of the US decision to freeze foreign aid funding begin to be felt across the world, organizations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) are warning years of work in everything from delivering life-saving healthcare to defending human rights and strengthening democracy could be undone.

  9. A Global Retreat from Solidarity

    - Inter Press Service

    PARIS, Feb 17 (IPS) - The world is witnessing a dangerous retreat from international solidarity by Global Minority countries. From Washington to Brussels, governments are slashing funds that sustain human rights, democracy, and humanitarian initiatives.

  10. Why a Global Tech Fund for the Poorest Countries is a Smart Investment

    - Inter Press Service

    GEBZE, Turkiye, Feb 17 (IPS) - The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development could catalyse coordinated action to close the financing gap and set the stage for a STI-driven transformation in the world’s poorest countries.

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