Global Issues
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Human Rights and Gender Equality Vague in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 04 (IPS) - With the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion, civil society actors in Europe are calling for a firmer stance on human rights and gender equality, including control of assets by women.
Women – the Pillar of the Social Struggle in Chile’s Patagonia Region
- Inter Press Service
COYHAIQUE, Chile, Sep 04 (IPS) - In few places in Chile are women the pillars of community, grassroots rural and environmental movements as they are in the southern wilderness region of Patagonia. It is a social role that history forced them to assume in this remote part of the country.
Indigenous Peoples Seek Presence in Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - The world's 370 million indigenous people, who say they were marginalised in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), want to play a key role in the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda, which will be finalised next year.
Child Trafficking Rampant in Underdeveloped Indian Villages
- Inter Press Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Sep 04 (IPS) - In a country where well over half the population lives on less than two dollars a day, it takes a lot to shock people. The sight of desperate families traveling in search of money and food, whole communities defecating in the open, old women performing back-breaking labour, all this is simply part of life in India, home to 1.2 billion people.
Sanctions and Retaliations: Simply Unconscionable
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 04 (IPS) - The crisis in Ukraine is a man-made disaster created by world leaders who have been trying to pull Ukraine apart - either towards Europe or Russia.
Mass Deportations Don’t Squelch Hondurans’ Migration Dreams
- Inter Press Service
CORINTO, Honduras, Sep 03 (IPS) - The clock marks 9 AM when a bus coming from the Mexican city of Tapachula reaches Corinto, on the border between Honduras and Guatemala. It is the first bus of the day, carrying children and their families sent back from a failed attempt at making it across the border into the United States.
With Sewing and Sowing, Self-reliance Blooms in Central Asia
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (IPS) - In the small rural village of Svetlaya Polyana, not far from the city of Karakol in Issyk Kul Province, north-eastern Kyrgyzstan, there is no sewage system and 70 percent of households lack access to hot water.
Criminalisation of Homelessness in U.S. Criticised by United Nations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 02 (IPS) - A United Nations panel reviewing the U.S. record on racial discrimination has expressed unusually pointed concern over a new pattern of laws it warns is criminalising homelessness.
OPINION: Civil Society Calls For Impartial Inquiry on Air Crash and Catastrophe in Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 02 (IPS) - It is ironic that at this moment in history when so many people and nations around the world are acknowledging the 100th anniversary of our planet's hapless stumble into World War I, great powers and their allies are once again provoking new dangers where governments appear to be sleepwalking towards a restoration of old Cold War battles.
Why Principle Matters at UN Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 02 (IPS) - The killings of hundreds of civilians, including scores of children, in Gaza – whose only fault was to have been born on the wrong side of the wall – was a major point of contention at the United Nations Human Rights Council at the end of July.
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