News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 8
Retired in Ukraine: One Cheese, Two Chickens and a Dozen Eggs
- Inter Press Service
UZHGOROD, Ukraine, August 25 (IPS) - Marina says she does not particularly like her flowers, but that, “for some reason,” people buy them.
Colombia Declares State of Emergency Following Deadly Earthquake
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 25 (IPS) - Over the past week, the humanitarian crisis in Colombia has deteriorated significantly following the Mw 7.4–7.5 earthquake that struck the Chocó department on August 10. With the Colombian government declaring a State of Emergency across 15 departments, the nation continues to struggle with massive civilian casualties, immense damage to critical infrastructure, and the disruption of basic services. The national government and the humanitarian community continue to coordinate lifesaving responses and monitor conditions as they evolve.
UNAIDS Framework Pushes for the Protection and Integration of HIV Care
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 21 (IPS) - As the global HIV response shifts toward sustainable, nationally led, and rights-based care, a new UNAIDS framework published this week argues that integration must start with a country’s readiness.
World Humanitarian Day — Protect Aid Workers Against Drones
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 20 (IPS) - World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often dangerous conditions.
How the Taliban Hunt Women in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
ROME, August 20 (IPS) - FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, denounces what she describes as “gender apartheid.”
GAZA: ‘There Are No Standards to Tell You What to Do in Conditions like Gaza’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses the state of civic and humanitarian action in Gaza with Ibrahim Arandas, a Palestinian activist and project manager at SPARK Gaza, a civil society organisation that provides humanitarian and psychosocial support.
Nairobi Biodiversity Talks Set the Stage for Key COP17 Decisions
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, August 18 (IPS) - Despite record participation in global biodiversity reporting and planning processes, countries remain off track to meet the world’s 2030 biodiversity goals, according to discussions that concluded this month at two key meetings under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
Impending UNIFIL Exit Pushes Lebanon Toward Uncertainty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 18 (IPS) - Since the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon announced in June, the humanitarian situation in Lebanon has deteriorated sharply. Marked by high casualties, immense destruction to civilian infrastructure, and widespread displacement, access to essential services has become increasingly strained as the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is scheduled to end its operations by the end of the year.
How Global Aid Cuts are Undermining Women-Led Humanitarian Response in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) - Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs are surging and international support is dwindling.
Malawi Bets on Battery Storage to Climate-Proof Its Fragile Power Grid
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, August 12 (IPS) - For years, Malawi’s electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the vulnerability of a power system heavily dependent on hydropower.
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