News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 19
Online Abuse is Real Violence — and Africa’s Women and Girls are Paying the Price
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, January 7 (IPS) - New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world – and that one of its fastest-growing frontiers is the digital space.
Maternal Deaths Spike in War-Torn Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, January 7 (IPS) - “It was an emergency caesarean section when the life of the pregnant woman was at risk. We did the operation with just flashlights and no water, and against a backdrop of constant explosions,” says Dr Oleksandr Zhelezniakov, Director of the Obstetrics Department at Kharkiv Regional Clinical Hospital, in eastern Ukraine.
Iraq ‘unrecognisable and remarkable’ after years of conflict: UN coordinator
- UN News
Some two decades after a shaky political transition, Iraq today is a country “at peace, with increased security and a clear determination to win the battle of development,” says the UN resident coordinator for Iraq on Wednesday.
West Bank: UN report warns of ‘systematic asphyxiation’ of Palestinian rights
- UN News
A sweeping UN human rights report released on Wednesday concludes that in the occupied West Bank, Israel is violating international law prohibiting racial segregation and apartheid, warning that the discriminatory practices have accelerated dramatically since late 2022 amid growing violence, repression and impunity.
Lost Opportunities to Halt Rising Military Spending
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, January 6 (IPS) - The United Nations issued a year end Fact Sheet: Rising global military expenditures, starkly illuminating that last year’s record high of $2.7 trillion in military expenditures, caused a cascade of devastating consequences to human well-being, the environment, possibilities for avoiding climate collapse, as well as blows to employment, ending hunger and poverty, providing health care, education, and other ills, due to a lack of adequate funding support.
Trump De-dollarisation Accelerant
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, January 6 (IPS) - While US President Donald Trump has blamed the BRICS and foreign investors for de-dollarisation, his rhetoric, actions and policy measures are mainly responsible for the trend’s recent acceleration.
Thirteen more lives lost in Sudan as 1,000th day of war looms
- UN News
Thirteen more lives – including children – were reportedly lost on Tuesday in another drone attack on Sudan’s North Kordofan region.
UN agency rolls out three-year plan to safeguard Ukraine’s bread basket
- UN News
Ukraine’s agricultural sector remains under intense pressure as the war continues to disrupt food production and endanger civilians, the UN food security agency warned on Tuesday, as it unveiled a new three-year plan to help farmers survive and protect their livelihoods.
Venezuela’s people must be heard, insists UN human rights chief
- UN News
Responding to the seizure of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Tuesday reiterated deep concerns that the military operation undermined fundamental protections for sovereign countries.
When Democracy Freezes, Autocrats Rise
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Austria, January 5 (IPS) - Consider our political systems not merely as battlegrounds of passions, ideologies and economic interests, but as systematically functioning arrangements of interactions, akin to game theory. In recent decades, we have witnessed the dissolution of large homogeneous groups into numerous subgroups — a patchwork of minorities.
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