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Data Gaps are Hiding the Most Excluded Children
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, May 7 (IPS) - In 2024, 273 million children, adolescents, and youth were out of school globally as per the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. While that is a staggering number, the figure is incomplete. The 2026 Global Education Monitoring report warns that the global out of school population may be undercounted by at least 13 million once humanitarian sources are used to correct data gaps in conflict-affected contexts.
VENEZUELA: ‘The Credit Goes to Detainees’ Families, Human Rights Organisations and the International Community’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses the status of political prisoners in Venezuela with Manuel Virgüez, director of Movimiento Vinotinto, a Venezuelan human rights organisation that works for citizen empowerment, democracy and justice.
The UN NGO Committee: Civil Society’s Gatekeeper in Hostile Hands
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 4 (IPS) - In January, the government of Algeria succeeded in locking two civil society groups out of access to the United Nations (UN). It raised questions at the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, known as the NGO Committee, about two civil society groups with accreditation. It alleged that Italian organisation Il Cenacolo was making politically motivated statements at the UN Human Rights Council and the Geneva-based International Committee for the Respect and Implementation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (CIRAC) was selling UN grounds passes. Four days later, it called a vote to revoke their status. Other states urged delay, but the no-action motion failed, and 11 of the body’s 19 members voted to recommend that the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) revoke Il Cenacolo’s accreditation and suspend CIRAC’s for a year.
Pacific Ocean Under Pressure — Now a Region Finally Armed With Evidence
- Inter Press Service
SUVA, Fiji, May 4 (IPS) - For generations, Pacific people have understood the ocean not as a resource but as identity, sustenance, and survival. Today, that relationship is being tested in ways science is only just beginning to fully capture.
Migration a Toxic and Divisive Issue in Many Parts of the West
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 4 (IPS) - Migration is a strange thing, hard to pin down. It is a complex phenomenon that transforms communities while shaping people’s identities and it is so multifaceted that individuals perceive it and live it in different ways.
‘Nuclear Weapons Are Not Just Tools of War. They Are Weapons of Mass Suffering.’
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 1 (IPS) - “We choose hope because despair is a form of surrender that we cannot accept,” UN Ambassador to the Philippines, Enrique Manolo, told civil society representatives and the diplomatic community, considering the question of whether to pursue nuclear disarmament in a world that is becoming more polarized on the issue.
Press Freedom: A Story of Lives Lost, Budgets Slashed, Status Eroded
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, May 1 (IPS) - Press freedom is on the retreat across much of the world. As documented by recent global surveys authored by the UN and media institutes, the erosion of an independent, fearless and diversified press is a trend that has worsened for well over a decade.
UN Staff Advised to Keep Off Campaign for New Secretary-General
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (IPS) - A longstanding rule bars international civil servants from publicly taking a political stand against member states (or even participating in political demonstrations outside the UN).
BULGARIA: ‘We Protested Against a Whole System of Corrupt Governance and State Capture’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses Bulgaria’s Gen Z-led protests with Aleksandar Tanev, founder of Students Against the Mafia, an informal student organisation that took part in mass protests against corruption and state capture.
Seychelles’ Blue Bond: Turning Ocean Vision into Action
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, Seychelles, April 29 (IPS) - As the world prepares for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) meeting in Samarkand next month, Seychelles’ pioneering blue bond offers a compelling lesson in practical ocean finance.
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