News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 105
In Sri Lanka, Rajapaksas on the Ropes
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 04 (IPS) - With the economy in freefall and basics such as food and fuel in dangerously short supply, there is mounting public anger against a failing and desperate government in Sri Lanka.
War, Displacement & A Global Refugee Crisis: A Wake-Up Call to Increase Refugee Participation
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Apr 01 (IPS) - It has been a month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has now created one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. More than 3.7 million people have left the country, in what has become the fastest exodus globally since World War II.
Profound Effect of Covid Pandemic on Women and Girls in Asia-Pacific Documented
- Inter Press Service
Tokyo, Mar 31 (IPS) - Women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region were adversely impacted due to COVID-19 pandemic responses – with marginalized women and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV) services profoundly affected.
War in Ukraine Morally Unacceptable, Politically Indefensible & Militarily Nonsensical
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 31 (IPS) - For more than one month now, the entire population of Ukraine has been enduring a living nightmare. The lives of millions of people are in upheaval as they are forced to flee their homes or hide in basements and bomb shelters as their cities are pummeled and destroyed.
Ukrainian Women, Children Fleeing War Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Mar 30 (IPS) - States must do more to protect women and children fleeing war in Ukraine, rights groups have urged, amid growing concerns they are falling prey to trafficking and sexual violence.
Wealthy Nations, Corporate Titans’ False Promises of Fair COVID-19 Recovery Exposed, How Africa’s Inequality Deepened
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 29 (IPS) - Even as COVID-19 brought Africa’s already fragile health care and economic systems to the brink, wealthy states colluded with corporate giants to dupe people with empty slogans and false promises of a fair recovery from the ongoing health pandemic, a newly released report by Amnesty International report finds.
Do we Really Need a World Ranking to Measure Happiness?
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 29 (IPS) - The 10th edition of the World Happiness Report was recently published and once again the findings raised an array of mixed emotions with many questioning the real foundations underpinning the most discussed aspect of the Report, the World Happiness Ranking,
Afghanistan’s Girls’ Education is a Women’s Rights Issue
- Inter Press Service
New York, Mar 28 (IPS) - The late-night reversal of a decision by Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to allow girls from grades 7 to 12 to return to school has been met with distress from within the country and internationally – and fear that it could herald further restrictions.
Should NATO Enter the Russian-Ukrainian Fray?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 28 (IPS) - It is hard to describe the excruciatingly painful destruction Putin is inflicting on Ukraine. However, whereas NATO should provide Ukraine with active defensive military equipment, it should not directly join the war which could ignite a major European if not world war.
We Must Do More to Remove People’s Negative Image of Leprosy from their DNA – Yohei Sasakawa
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 25 (IPS) - On a visit to Indonesia’s Papua Province, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination Yohei Sasakawa had dinner with a man forced from his village and living alone because he was affected by leprosy.
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