News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 107
Education Cannot Wait Secures Future of Children in CAR Conflict Zones
- Inter Press Service
Bangui, Central African Republic, Mar 17 (IPS) - Nine-year-old Marguerite Doumkel sits among other children in a classroom in Paoua, a sub-prefecture of Ouham Pende, in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Refugees Recount Harrowing Escape from Besieged Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Mar 15 (IPS) - “I never, ever, believed that anything like this could happen,” says Valia*. “Not for a second.”
Africa Needs to Move Quickly on COVID Vaccines to Build Long-term Resilience
- Inter Press Service
New York, Mar 11 (IPS) - Countries on the African continent have a pattern of a six-month break before a new COVID-19 spike happens, researchers at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change have said in a newly released report.
‘Brutal’ Discrimination Adds Trauma to Roma as they Flee War-torn Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Mar 09 (IPS) - Roma refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine are facing discrimination on both sides of the country’s borders at the end of often harrowing journeys across the country, rights groups have claimed.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - How Bangladesh Became a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 07 (IPS) - The increased empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh over the past 10 years has been no accident.
A decade ago, not even one in four rural women could be said to be “empowered” across five key metrics, a figure that surprised even those working on the ground with the country’s poorest. By 2015, this had risen to more than two in five, or 41 per cent, with continued gains in recent years.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - To Overcome Africa’s Development Crisis, Invest in Strengthening Girls’ Power
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) - The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. It was on a visit to Lesotho that I first heard the derogatory term Mmutla – nocturnal hare. It is a word used in some southern districts to insult adolescent girls who have been forced into sexual exploitation and transactional sexual relations for survival.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Celebrating the Transformative Impact of Women as Non-Formal Educators
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) - Women around the world play crucial roles in education as formal educators, school staff members, and parents of students. But women are also transforming education as non-formal educators in ways that can be scaled to improve education broadly. As we celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), it’s important that this transformative role is recognized.
A Tale of Two Refugee Crises
- Inter Press Service
International Women’s Day, 2022 - To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women
- Inter Press Service
PANAMA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) - Access to clean energy improves women’s lives in a myriad of ways. It supports access to education and quality healthcare, opens new economic opportunities, and reduces unpaid domestic labour and gender-based violence. Yet too often, the sector as a whole – from industry to policymaking – still fails to include women as energy users, decision-makers and agents of change of the energy transition.
International Womens Day, 2022 - Sexual Violence Laws are Failing Adolescents
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Mar 03 (IPS) - At Equality Now, we have been on a years-long journey to track and analyze sexual violence laws and their implementation around the world. This work was born after working with survivors of sexual violence for over two decades and observing that women and girls reported similar barriers to justice regardless of where they were from.
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