News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 181
Coronavirus - Urban Areas Face the Brunt of the Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 29 (IPS) - The effect of the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent global lockdown might have a graver effect on cities and urban areas than on rural areas, possibly making women more susceptible to violence.
Reflections on the Charter of the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 29 (IPS) - This year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations, written and signed during a period of great global change. Today, the world is again shifting beneath our feet. Yet, the Charter remains a firm foundation for our joint efforts.
Neglected, Sacrificed: Older Persons During the COVID19 Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 28 (IPS) - COVID19 is devastating on older persons. The numbers are staggering, more than 80 percent of the fatalities due to coronavirus in the US and East Asia occurred among adults aged 65 and over. In Europe and Australia, the figures are even higher, 94 and 97 per cent of the deaths were persons aged 60 and over.
COVID-19 Means Development Setbacks for Mongolia
- Inter Press Service
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia, Jul 28 (IPS) - Mongolia has recorded very few cases of COVID-19, less than 300 as on date, despite its more than 4,000 kilometre porous border with China. However, the country faces a major economic impact from the pandemic.
Fight Pandemic, Not Windmills of the Mind
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 (IPS) - With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions of the first half of 2020 is now expected to be more gradual than previously forecast.
COVID-19: Smarter Response & Recovery Measures Can Help Preserve Human Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 (IPS) - "Social cohesion is built over years and is the result of policies that allow everybody in society to share in its sustainable prosperity," Ahunna Eziakonwa, Director - UNDP AfricaAs COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Africa, countries are simultaneously dealing with the health and socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, and how and when to ease lockdowns and curfews imposed to stop the disease spreading and get onto the path of recovery.
A Determined Path to the SDGs in 2030 Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 27 (IPS) - As lockdowns ease in countries across Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear—a return to business as usual is unimaginable in a region that was already off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The virtual High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development recently convened governments and stakeholders across the globe to focus on the imperative to build back better while keeping an eye on the Global Goals.
Rohingya Women Take a Seat at the Table & Share Stories in a Growing Rights Movement
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 (IPS) - Rohingya women are coming together to feature their own work, plight and stories in mainstream conversations about their community — a space they say they've been left out of.
"If we think of revolutions or liberty or think of any ways to liberate ourselves from the shackle of suffering and being dubbed as 'the most persecuted minority on earth', women have to be part of it," Yasmin Ullah, president of the Rohingya Human Rights Network, told IPS.
Three Steps for Leaders to Tackle Covid and Climate Emergency
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 24 (IPS) - Dr David Nabarro is Special Envoy to the World Health Organisation on COVID-19 and Strategic Director of 4SD. He sets out his challenge to leaders to use COVID-19 as an opportunity for radical change that responds to the needs and the interests of all of humanity.
- Countries must work together
- Focus on equity
- Effective local action
It was Meant to Be a Ground-breaking Year for Gender Equality but COVID-19 Widened Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Australia, Jul 24 (IPS) - Sixteen-year-old Suhana Khan had just completed her grade 10 exams in March, when India imposed a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Since then, she has been spending her mornings and evenings doing household chores, from cooking and cleaning to fetching drinking water from the tube well.
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