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UN80: Three Tests to Make Reform About People, Not Spreadsheets
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, September 26 (IPS) - This September the UN turns 80, but the lessons of peace, justice, and cooperation are still unfinished. The world today faces the flames of inequality, conflict, ecological collapse and growing digital threats. In short, the very problems the UN was created to solve are once again staring us in the face.
UNICEF Climate Advocate Urges World Leaders To ‘Include Children’ in Climate Discussions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 26 (IPS) - The UN General Assembly High-Level Week (22-30 September) has been an opportunity for the world to convene on the most pressing issues of the day, from multilateralism, global financing, gender equality, non-communicable diseases, and AI governance.
UN at 80: Civil Society Must Have a Say in the Struggle for Renewal
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, September 26 (IPS) - As the high-level opening week of the UN General Assembly unfolds, with heads of states delivering often self-serving speeches from the UN’s podium, the organisation is undergoing one of its worst set of crises since its founding 80 years ago. This year’s General Assembly – ostensibly focused on development, human rights and peace – comes as wars are raging across multiple continents, climate targets are dangerously being missed and the institution designed to address these global challenges is being hollowed out by funding cuts and political withdrawals.
Ending Child Marriage Needs a Culture of Accountability, Respect for the Rule of Law
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 26 (IPS) - Global leaders came together at the sidelines of this year’s UN General Assembly to commit to ending child marriage, calling on all world leaders to make concerted efforts to ensure accountability and enforce the laws that prohibit it.
Saving the Ocean – Act Now!
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, September 24 (IPS) - Like so many problems besetting the world, the existential threats facing small island states are all too obvious. Island nations are surrounded by the sea, and they depend on it for their livelihood and for their security. The sheer power of the sea can never be tamed but islanders have learnt to work with it and in doing so, there has always been a productive balance. But this balance, however, has been cast aside – the relationship has broken down. Our mighty ocean is in poor shape.
‘The State Cannot Pardon Itself for Violating Human Rights’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses Peru’s new amnesty law with Nadia Ramos Serrano, founder and researcher at the Leadership Centre for Women of the Americas, a civil society organisation working on democratic development and the role of women in politics.
Mamdani’s Stand on Genocide is More Important than the Dynamics of Arresting Netanyahu
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, September 23 (IPS) - No leader responsible for mass atrocities enjoys greater impunity on the international stage than Benjamin Netanyahu. This is due to the strange stranglehold of the pro-Israel lobby on the two major political parties in the United States.
How Stigma Undermines Contraceptive Use Among Women in Sierra Leone
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, September 22 (IPS) - Eunice Dumbuya, a young activist in Freetown, Sierra Leone, still remembers being called promiscuous after getting a contraceptive implant a few years ago. She knew the risks of an unplanned pregnancy in her conservative country, so she made a choice.
146 Land and Environmental Defenders Killed or Disappeared in 2024
- Inter Press Service
LONDON & SRINAGAR, September 19 (IPS) - At least 146 land and environmental defenders were murdered or forcibly disappeared in 2024 for standing up against powerful state and corporate interests, according to a new report released by Global Witness.
Outsourcing Cruelty: Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 19 (IPS) - Thousands of Afghans who fled to the USA when the Taliban took over in August 2021 now face the prospect of deportation to countries they’ve never been to. People who risked everything to escape persecution, often because they helped US forces, now find themselves treated as unwanted cargo under the Trump administration’s anti-migration policy.
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