Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 157
Artificial Intelligence Faces Charges of Left-Wing Political Bias
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) - The artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT, whose negative consequences include misinformation, is facing new charges of political bias.
According to a study by the University of East Anglia (UEA), released August 17, AI ChatGPT shows “a significant and systemic left-wing bias”.
Reintegration Assistance for Migrants Going Home
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Aug 16 (IPS) - Reintegration assistance for migrants returning to their countries of origin is becoming increasingly salient. Germany and the EU cooperate closely with countries of origin to support local reintegration.
Kenya: Cost of Living Protests Met with Police Repression
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 15 (IPS) - Protests against the high cost of living in Kenya have been met with police violence. Talks are currently underway between government and opposition – but whatever results will fall short unless it brings accountability for the catalogue of human rights violations committed in response to protests.
#AfghanGirlsVoices Campaign to Elevate Voices of Young Afghan Girls on Global Stage
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 14 (IPS) - Two years ago, the then 19-year-old Somaya Faruqi and the Afghan Robotic Team travelled from Herat City to Kabul, the heart of Afghanistan—the Taliban had taken over Herat city, cutting off electricity and internet. The all-girls team’s great passion for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) had driven them to Kabul to rehearse for a competition.
Nigeria to Expand Education Access Through a Student Loan Scheme
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Nigeria, Aug 14 (IPS) - Wisdom Ajah, an 18-year-old senior secondary school graduate living in Karshi, a satellite town in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, dreams of a university education that will secure him a good job after graduation and help support his family. But it is a distant dream considering how many obstacles he has faced trying to acquire a secondary school certificate.
Russia Upstages Neo-Colonialist France in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (IPS) - Going back to the 16th century and continuing through the late 1960s, France was described as the world’s second largest colonial power—just behind the British Empire.
As the old saying goes: The sun would never set over the British Empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark. But would that also apply to the French colonial empire?
Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol on Womens Rights in Africa
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) - It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its reach, and unique in its all-encompassing nature, covering issues such as HIV/Aids, widow inheritance and property disinheritance in a most unprecedented manner.
Blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh: When Bread and Sanitary Pads Become Luxury Items
- Inter Press Service
STEPANAKERT, Nagorno-Karabakh, Aug 08 (IPS) - Tatev Azizyan, a 28-year-old journalist from Nagorno-Karabakh, says she has explained to her child that they both have to switch to “energy save mode” to survive.
Empowering Women in Assam: Livestock Farming Brings Economic Relief Post-COVID
- Inter Press Service
MILONPUR, INDIA, Aug 08 (IPS) - Seema Devi is a 39-year-old woman hailing from India's northeastern state of Assam. She lives in a village called Milonpur, a small hamlet with no more than 1 000 inhabitants. While most men from the village, including Devi's husband, move to cities and towns in search of work, women are left behind to take care of the house and kids.
France, Russia, ECOWAS in Battle for Soul of West Africa
- Inter Press Service
SOKOTO, NIGERIA, Aug 07 (IPS) - On July 26 2023 a man named Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, flanked by soldiers with military fatigues, appeared on Niger's national television to announce the execution of a coup. It was the country’s fourth coup since it gained independence from France in 1960.
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