News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 272
Rohingya Refugees Trapped in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Nov 30 (IPS) - Amid growing persecution by Myanmar's military, thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims in its western state of Rakhine have fled their frontier villages and are languishing along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border for lack of shelter and emergency supplies.
Looking into the Eyes of Central American Refugees in a Time of Hate and Fear
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 30 (IPS) - Ten years ago I arrived in Mexico for the first time. A heavy backpack strapped around my waist, I toddled over a large, concrete bridge that divides Mexico and Guatemala.
“Bonn Has Become an Insider Tip on the International Stage”
- Inter Press Service
ROME/BONN, Nov 29 (IPS) - With around 320,000 inhabitants on 141 square kilometres, no other relatively small city has played such a historically critical role like the City of Bonn.
Kenya’s Youth Unemployment Challenge Presents Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 22 (IPS) - Consider this paradox. Every year 1 million young people join the job market in Kenya, yet Kenya has the largest number of jobless youth in East Africa.
As the government puts in place measures for addressing the issue of high youth unemployment and poverty, The private sector needs to join forces to sustainably grow its business and markets. Businesses and the societies that they operate in are symbiotic and it is now an established maxim that business cannot succeed in societies that fail.
Children of the ‘Others’, Sons of Minor Gods
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 22 (IPS) - In December 1946, "faced with the reality of millions of children suffering daily deprivation in Europe after World War II," the General Assembly of the United Nations created the UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), to mount urgent relief programmes.
New Fund Aims to Help Build Resilience to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKECH, Nov 18 (IPS) - The world has been too slow in responding to climate events such as El Niño and La Niña, and those who are the "least responsible are the ones suffering most", Mary Robinson, the special envoy on El Niño and Climate, told IPS at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech (COP22).
Somali Refugees "Coerced" Out of Kenya: Amnesty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14 (IPS) - The Kenyan government is driving many of its 300,000 refugees back to war-torn Somalia, said Amnesty International in a new report.
Options Lacking to Help Developing Countries Avoid Debt Crises
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 08 (IPS) - Despite many developing countries facing a very real risk of falling into debt crisis - the current options available to assist countries to manage their debts are surprisingly lacking.
Beyond Calais: A Perspective on Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 07 (IPS) - Migration is part of the process of development. It is not a problem in itself, and could, in fact, offer a solution to a number of matters. Migrants can make a positive and profound contribution to the economic and social development of their countries of origin, transit and destination alike. To quote the New York Declaration, adopted at the UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants on 19 September, "migrants can help to respond to demographic trends, labour shortages and other challenges in host societies, and add fresh skills and dynamism to the latter's economies".
World to Cut Gas Emissions by 25 Percent More Than Paris Agreement
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 04 (IPS) - On the eve of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement today Nov. 4, the United Nations sounded new climate alarm, urging the world to ‘dramatically' step up its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by some 25 per cent more.
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