News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 127
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.
Targeting Only Russian Oligarchs, a Historic Mistake
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Mar 03 (IPS) - The war in Ukraine has highlighted Russian kleptocrats funnelling billions of dollars out of the country and investing them in London and other major global financial centres, prompting political leaders in Europe and USA to crack down on this shady money. Russian oligarchs are believed to hold as much as $1 trillion in wealth abroad, often hidden in offshore companies whose true ownership is hard to determine.
International Women’s Day, 2022 - Women Demanding Justice & Peace in the Streets of Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 02 (IPS) - This will be the second International Women’s Day since the brutal coup erupted in Myanmar – and women remain fiercely in the lead in demanding justice and peace in the streets and behind closed doors.
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