News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 130
Sasakawas Epoch-Making Quest to End Discrimination of Leprosy Affected People
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, Jan 30 (IPS) - For the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Yohei Sasakawa, ensuring affected peoples’ human rights is fundamental to the campaign to eradicate the disease.
Boys Sold by Trusted Villager Turned Human Trafficker
- Inter Press Service
Lucknow, India, Jan 28 (IPS) - Friends Ajay and Durgesh were lured from the same village in the remote and poverty-stricken countryside of eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP) in January 2021.
Battle for Palestine: & the Day When David Felled Goliath with a Stone
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) - When Israeli Ambassador Gilat Erdan made an unusual presentation before the Security Council last week displaying a large rock, which he claimed, was hurled at Israeli vehicles in the Occupied Territories, a reporter at a UN press conference asked whether Palestinians will be given the right of reply--- by displaying in the Security Council chamber an Uzi sub- machine gun or a bulldozer deployed by Israeli armed forces against civilian demonstrations.
Youth Have the Spirit to Change Trajectory of Leprosy, says Yohei Sasakawa
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 25 (IPS) - Yohei Sasakawa said the youth have the power to change the world, and their participation in removing the stigma and myths about leprosy is crucial to the campaign to end the disease.
The Rise of Religious Extremism & Anti-Muslim Politics in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jan 25 (IPS) - On 28 October, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed the militant Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara to head a presidential task force on legal reforms, shocking many in Sri Lanka and beyond. Gnanasara is the public face of the country’s leading anti-Muslim campaign group, Bodu Bala Sena (Army of Buddhist Power, or BBS). He is widely accused of inciting inter-communal violence, including two deadly anti-Muslim pogroms in June 2014 and March 2018.
Community Organization and Solidarity in Peru Tackle Hunger in Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jan 24 (IPS) - It's nine o'clock in the morning and Mauricia Rodríguez is already peeling garlic to season the day's lunch at the Network of Organized Women of Villa Torreblanca, one of more than 2,400 solidarity-based soup kitchens that have emerged in the Peruvian capital in response to the worsening poverty caused by the partial or total halt of economic activities in the country due to COVID-19.
Human Rights Violations and Culture of Impunity in South Asia
- Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IPS) - As countries across South Asia continue to battle the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, causing serious public health and economic crisis, this region, which is home to almost 2 billion people, is also grappling with the erosion of democratic norms, growing authoritarianism, the crackdown on freedom of press, speech and dissent.
Covax, the Developing World's Hope against COVID, Has Made It Only Halfway
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jan 20 2022 (IPS) - The Covax initiative, the hope of the countries of the developing South to immunize their populations against COVID-19, only met half of its goals in 2021. And as 2022 begins, and the omicron variant of the virus is spreading fast, the scheme still depends on the decisions of pharmaceutical companies and the goodwill of donor governments.
Health Workers Lauded for Role in Leprosy Treatment During Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 20 (IPS) - The human rights of people affected by leprosy are central to Yohei Sasakawa’s concept of a leprosy-free world.
Human Trafficking, Rape, Extortion Behind 'Forced Conversions', say Experts
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Jan 19 (IPS) - Two years after Michelle, 15, was kidnapped, sold, forced to convert to Islam and married to a stranger, relatives still ostracise her.
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