News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 132
Youth at Forefront of Climate Change Action Will Make Biggest Impact
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Dec 15 (IPS) - On Gladys Habu’s birthday, she filmed a message to world leaders while standing waist-deep in the sea next to a dead tree stump – the only remnant of Kale Island now submerged underwater due to climate-change-induced sea-level rise.
Cool Scheme to Reduce Food Waste in Nigeria
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Dec 14 (IPS) - Food spoilage forced smallholder farmers out of pocket and out of business – until an entrepreneur came up with a cool idea.
Open Letter to the Secretary General, Heads of UN Agencies & International Donor Community
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14 (IPS) - We are former UN officials with decades of combined experience supporting international civil society and governments to advance the rights of women and girls.
Greed-Driven Pandemic Still Killing Millions
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 14 (IPS) - Failure to vaccinate most in poor countries sustains the COVID-19 pandemic. Rich country greed and patent monopolies block developing countries from affordably making the means to protect themselves.
CPJ’s Census on Jailed Journalists Reveals Distressing “Intolerance of Independent Journalism”
- Inter Press Service
New York, Dec 13 (IPS) - Governments are determined to control information and are prepared to imprison journalists to achieve this mission, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said following the release of their annual global census tracking journalists who were imprisoned and killed in 2021.
Safia Niaz and Zakia Soman: Bonded to Change the Trajectory of Muslim Women in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Dec 10 (IPS) - Discriminated in society and concerned about the discrimination of women in their homes, the two women who co-founded the Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) started the movement to further Muslim women’s leadership and help them reclaim their rights.
ECW Joins Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies: Global Community Urged to Orange the World and End Gender-Based Violence Now
- Inter Press Service
Dec 09 (IPS) - The statistics are dire: One in three women have experienced a form of gender-based violence in their lifetime, be it sexual violence, physical violence, or child marriage. The message is clear: Women and girls deserve a safer, brighter future – free from gender-based violence.
Refugee Voices Matter - Nothing about Us, Without Us
- Inter Press Service
Displaced, Dec 07 (IPS) - Over the past two years, the global refugee response has been tested. The world is being rocked by the greatest pandemic in over a century, while waves of refugees have fled from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Belarus, and Tigray. So, where do we go from here? Next week, the international community will convene to take stock of the successes and shortcomings of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), a unique multilateral mechanism built to ensure the protection of one of the most vulnerable populations. This marquee Compact is up for review, but unlike other review processes, the participation of the people whose lives are shaped by the decisions to be made in the review process will be marginal. Unfortunately, only 1 in 50 of the invited attendees at the UNHCR High-Level Official’s Meeting (HLOM) to discuss the GCR are refugees.
Zero-Leprosy in Pandemic: Experts, Advocates Discuss New Strategies
- Inter Press Service
Hyderabad, Dec 03 (IPS) - As 2021 nears its end, public health systems worldwide remain severely strained by COVID 19, which is showing no sign of ending. But even as countries battle to control the deadly pandemic, they must also maintain the progress made against other diseases, including leprosy, global leprosy experts and advocates have urged.
Act to Save Children Living Precarious Lives in Cameroon’s Forgotten and Neglected Conflict
- Inter Press Service
Yaoundé, Cameroon, Dec 03 (IPS) - Education is under attack in Cameroon. As one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world unfolds, Education Cannot Wait’s director Yasmine Sherif and the Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, say the children are pawns for grown men in a political conflict.
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