Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 180
“An Israeli Senior Minister Asked Me To Commit Hate Crimes”
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 21 (IPS) - Harassing Palestinians, vandalizing their cars and houses, occupying their lands: Gilad Sade, a 36-year-old Israeli, recalls his day-to-day life when he belonged to a Jewish supremacist organization.
Tanzania Should Halt Plan to Relocate Maasai Pastoralists
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Feb 21 (IPS) - Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu is a senior researcher on women and land and Oryem Nyeko is the Tanzania researcher at Human Rights WatchTanzania’s policies on conservation and its ongoing impacts on Maasai people in Ngorongoro district highlight how communities historically marginalized by oppression still wrestle with colonial policies.
UN Hobbled by Junta and Under Pressure Over Myanmar Aid Crisis
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Feb 21 (IPS) - Nearly 18 million people – about one-third of Myanmar’s population – need humanitarian aid this year because of civil war and the post-coup economic crisis, according to the latest United Nations estimates.
UN Confronts Existential Challenge After Russias Invasion of Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - Paralysed by its own Charter and structure, the world organisation that is charged with preventing wars confronts an existential challenge from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger - And It Is Profitable
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Feb 17 (IPS) - In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact, is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.
Taking a Stance on Feminists Prejudice Against Religious Minority Women
- Inter Press Service
BRIGHTON, UK, Feb 17 (IPS) - Since researching the experiences of gender discrimination against women in poverty who belong to religious minorities, many fellow feminists have turned their back on me.
ECW High-Level Financing Conference Raises More than 826 Million USD to Keep Crisis-Impacted Children in School
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA & NAIROBI, Feb 16 (IPS) - As an unparalleled, unprecedented global education crisis unfolds, an estimated 222 million crisis-impacted children are desperate to learn. As barriers to accessing education increase, darkness beckons, and education is their last hope.
Venezuela: The End of Civil Society as We Know It?
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb 16 (IPS) - In late January, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, finished an official visit to Venezuela. He said he’d found a fragmented society in great need of bridging its divides and encouraged the government to take the lead in listening to civil society concerns and responding to victims of rights violations.
One Year Later: The Impact of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict on Africa
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 16 (IPS) - In today’s interconnected world, shots fired in one corner of the globe create ripple effects in other, seemingly far, places. One year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, African countries, although physically miles away, have not been spared its aftershocks.
Driven by the War, Russian Women Arrive en Masse to Give Birth in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 16 (IPS) - They began to arrive en masse in Argentina in the second half of 2022, a few months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They are pregnant Russian women who land in the capital to give birth, with the hope of gaining an Argentine passport, given the fact that so many countries refuse to let in people with Russian passports today.
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