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A Salt Sermon That Could Kill: When Faith Leaders Preach Misinformation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, May 14 (IPS) - In Nigeria, salt is deeply woven into the fabric of food and culture. It brings out flavor, preserves ingredients, and enhances tradition. But recently, salt has become the centerpiece of dangerous misinformation promoted by one of Nigeria’s most powerful spiritual leaders.
Funding cuts in Afghanistan mean ‘lives lost and lives less lived’
- UN News
In a remote village clinic in the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan last week, a group of teenage girls were given potentially life-saving reproductive health advice, excited by the small kit of menstrual supplies they had been given.
World News in Brief: Sudan refugees, aid for Syrian returnees, MERS alert in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela urged to end secret detentions
- UN News
More than 40,000 Sudanese have fled to eastern Chad in the past month to escape intensifying violence in Darfur.
Half of women’s organizations in crisis zones risk closure within six months
- UN News
Women’s organisations operating in crisis settings are being pushed to the brink by widespread funding cuts. In a report published on Tuesday, UN Women – the UN agency for gender equality – warned that 47 per cent of these groups may be forced to close within the next six months.
Gaza: 57 children reported dead from malnutrition, says WHO
- UN News
In the aid desert of Gaza, malnourished children are dying while survivors can expect a lifetime of dire health problems, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Rights with No Age Limit: Hopes for a Convention on the Rights of Older People
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 09 (IPS) - The world’s population is ageing. Global life expectancy has leapt to 73.3 years, up from under 65 in 1995. Around the world, there are now 1.1 billion people aged 60-plus, expected to rise to 1.4 billion by 2030 and 2.1 billion by 2050.
This demographic shift is a triumph, reflecting public health successes, medical advances and better nutrition. But it brings human rights challenges.
Armed Gangs Expand Their Control in the Centre Department of Haiti
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 08 (IPS) - Following a series of brutal altercations in the communes of Mirebalais and Saut d’Eau in Haiti back in late March, local gangs have taken over both communes, spurring heightened displacement and insecurity. This is indicative of the continuing deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Haiti as these armed gangs expand their control beyond Port-au-Prince.
‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake
- UN News
An estimated 3,800 people have died as a result of the devastating earthquakes that struck Myanmar on 28 March. Six weeks on, the situation in Myanmar remains dire, with whole communities still traumatised and vulnerable.
Speaking Out for SRHR: Why Lived Experiences Must Shape Policy and Practice
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 07 (IPS) - Just a month ago, I found myself in a hospital, anxiously waiting for my son to be attended to. As we sat quietly in one of the waiting rooms, an emergency case was wheeled in — a young woman, barely out of her teens. Her face contorted in visible pain. Her dress was soaked with blood, which had begun to pool beneath the wheelchair and trickle onto the floor.
Life and Death in the United States: A Costly Anomaly
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, May 06 (IPS) - On the crucial matters of life and death, the United States is a costly anomaly. Simply stated, women and men in the US pay more? for health but get less? life.
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