News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 308
Civilian Killings? West Literally Gets Away With Murder
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 (IPS) - The United Nations continues to come under heavy fire for singling out mostly non-Western states for human rights violations while ignoring the misdeeds of non-Western nations or big powers.
Civil Society Sceptical Over “Action Agenda” to Finance Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA, Jul 15 (IPS) - Despite high expectations, the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) ended on a predictable note: the United Nations proclaimed it a roaring success while most civil society organisations (CSOs) expressed scepticism over the final outcome.
U.N. Panel Lays Out Vision of "Just Security"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 (IPS) - Amid a range of new and old challenges, from climate change to gender equality and war crimes, a new report by the Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance emphasises the need to reform the U.N. system.
Children Increasingly Becoming the Spoils of War
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Whether in Palestine, Ukraine or Somalia, wars result in millions of children threatened by the brutality of armed conflict.
Pledges for Humanitarian Aid Fall Far Short of Deliveries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - When international donors pledge millions of dollars either for post-conflict reconstruction or for humanitarian aid, deliveries are rarely on schedule: they are either late, fall far below expectations or not delivered at all.
New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/ADDIS ABABA, Jul 13 (IPS) - Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children.
Opinion: Why Women Peacemakers Marched in Korea
- Inter Press Service
BELFAST, Jul 13 (IPS) - The year 2015 marked the 62nd anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War. The temporary ceasefire has never been replaced with a peace treaty and the demilitarised zone (DMZ) continues to divide the country.
IMF Steps Up Lending to Achieve Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (IPS) - As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development opens in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Monday, all eyes are on the United Nation's post-2015 development agenda, billed as the most ambitious and far-reaching poverty eradication plan in the organisation's history.
Earthquakes Don’t Kill, Buildings Do – Or Is It Inequity?
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Jul 12 (IPS) - 70-year-old Chiute Tamang was working in his field when the earth shook on Apr 25. He grabbed a tree. His wife and daughter were inside the house at the time, but managed to run out. In the blink of an eye, the building turned into a heap of stones. They were the lucky ones.
"Get to Zero, Stay at Zero" - The Comprehensive Plan to End Ebola
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (IPS) - "The threat is never over until we rebuild," Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma stressed at an Ebola Recovery Conference Friday in New York.
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