News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 109
Dream. Dare. Do.
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (IPS) - Conflict, forced displacement, climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions of crisis-affected children and adolescents around the world.
Call for Increased Global Efforts to Ease Africa’s Climate-Induced Water Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 14 (IPS) - When years ago warnings were sounded that future wars would be fought not over oil but water, the predictions were dismissed as alarmist.
Responding to New Threats to Poverty Eradication in Asia
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 14 (IPS) - With consistent, robust economic growth, countries across Asia have made monumental strides in eradicating extreme poverty over the past 30 years. In Bangladesh, for example, the population living in extreme poverty dropped from 43% in 1991 to 10.5% in 2019. Similarly in Cambodia, poverty incidence fell from 53% in 2004 to below 10% by 2016.
The Global South Moves Towards Vaccine Sovereignty
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES/ DHAKA/JOHANNESBURG, Feb 11 (IPS) - In 2021, Global South countries came out on the short end of vaccine supply deals. In 2022, they are building capacity to produce vaccines themselves.
An International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention?
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 10 (IPS) - The global consensus about an international treaty on pandemic prevention is certainly a milestone towards the creation of a global health security framework.
Power of Connection & Collaborations to Fight Modern-day Slavery
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Feb 08 (IPS) - The Covid-19 pandemic affected countries and people globally, at the same time exacerbated vulnerabilities such as modern-day slavery. There are over 40.3 million people estimated to be in modern-day slavery, and certain population groups, sectors and geographies such as children, migrant workers, women and girls that were already vulnerable, became more vulnerable to recruitment and exploitation during the pandemic. The United Nations has called the pandemic more than a health crisis, “it is an economic crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and a human rights crisis.”
Long-haul SADC Action Needed to Counter Mozambican Insurgency and Humanitarian Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, South Africa, Feb 07 (IPS) - Ongoing insecurity and an unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique need a strategically planned response to deal decisively with the insurgency that has plagued the area since October 2017.
An Unending & Uncertain Battle Against the Covid
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 07 (IPS) - The year 2021 began with several new vaccines showing efficacy in randomized trials, but despite 26 authorised Covid-19 vaccines globally, and at least another 200 in development (The Lancet, 2021), the first few weeks of year 2022 brought a sense of uncertainty.
End Leprosy Discrimination Now, For the Sake of Our Children
- Inter Press Service
Abuja, Nigeria, Feb 03 (IPS) - Seidu Ishaiku lives in the hope that his children will succeed. He and his family live with about 300 other residents in the Alheri leprosy colony outside Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
A Clash of Alms
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 03 (IPS) - Driven by unprecedented hardship to pass round the begging bowl, Sri Lanka has become the centre of a tussle between Asia’s two superpowers.
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