Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 186
Thoughts for 2023: Promoting Innovation & New Technologies
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (IPS) - Promoting innovation and technology to promote inclusive development means using new technologies to enhance equal access to services, eliminate discrimination, increase transparency, and create a stable and just future for all – especially the most vulnerable and marginalized.
Biodiversity Agreement Historic But Difficult to Implement
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Dec 19 (IPS) - The pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), which takes its name from its shape, is found throughout the Caribbean Sea, but its population has declined by more than 80 percent since 1990. As a result, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed it as "critically endangered" due to the effects of the human-induced climate crisis.
Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 19 (IPS) - When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts that attracted other powers: the World Wars I and II, they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven.
Universal Health Coverage: Think of Health Workers, not just Health Services
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC/ CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA/ GENEVA, Dec 19 (IPS) - Health services don’t deliver themselves. It is the nurse who triages in the emergency department, the midwife who delivers babies and cares for mothers, the community health worker who gives babies vaccines, the care assistant who bathes someone at home, the surgeon who performs the operation, the anesthetist who blocks the pain, the pharmacist who matches the script to the medication, and the physiotherapist who restores movement.
Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Dec 16 (IPS) - In addition to its nutritional properties, quinoa, an ancestral grain from the Andes, also has cosmetic uses, as stated by the resource use and benefit-sharing permit ABSCH-IRCC-PE-261033-1 awarded in February to a private individual under a 15-month commercial use contract.
Russia's LGBTQI 'Propaganda' Law Imperils HIV Prevention
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Dec 16 (IPS) - A new law banning LGBTQI ‘propaganda’ in Russia will further stigmatise LGBTQI people in the country and could worsen what is already one of the world’s worst HIV/AIDS epidemics, critics have warned.
Borderlands and Bloodbaths: The case of Congo and Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec 15 (IPS) - During November, soldiers of the March 23 Movement (M23) have been approaching Goma in the eastern territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), close to the Rwandan border. About 180.000 people are now leaving Goma, a city with a million inhabitants. Many stakeholders are involved in the conflict and there is an apparent danger that the overall carnage that affected the Congolese eastern border areas fifteen years ago will resume. At the same time, war is ranging in Ukraine, which name likely comes from the old Slavic term for borderland.
Making the UN Charter a Reality: Why is UN Day Important for Asians at the UN?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 15 (IPS) - To commemorate the seventy-seventh UN Day, the United Nations Asia Network for Diversity & Inclusion (UN-ANDI) held a panel discussion on the topic “Making the UN Charter a reality”. The discussion took place virtually on 27 October, and the event was attended by diverse participants from around the world.
COP15: Unsustainable Infrastructure Threatens Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Dec 15 (IPS) - Created in 2016, the Mexican Caribbean Biosphere Reserve (MCBR) hosts 1900 species of animals and plants and contains half of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second largest in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
With Activists, Journalists Jailed for Spurious Reasons, Commentators Say Indias Chief Justice Faces Challenges
- Inter Press Service
Dec 14 (IPS) - India’s new Chief Justice, Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, has a significant challenge ahead – as activists and minorities remain hopeful that he will remain true to his legacy of delivering judgments that enshrined the Constitution, especially on personal liberty.
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