Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 198
Afghanistan: The Year of Illusions
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) - Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban "Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan," signed on 29 February 2020, is deemed by many as the submission of a superpower to a group that had perpetrated acts of extreme ferocity and terror.
Afghanistan: A Treasure Worth More than a Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Sep 06 (IPS) - Both mainstream media, international bodies and human rights defenders continue to rightly denounce the Taliban's inhuman abuses against the Afghan people’s basic rights, in particular those of women and girls.
Make Art, Not War: Ukrainian Artists Tell the Ukraine Story Through their Art
- Inter Press Service
New Delhi, Sep 06 (IPS) - “I must say that I had a premonition of a war with Russia in 2014 when Russian troops had started to occupy Crimea,” said Mykola Zhuravel, a contemporary painter and sculptor, in an interview with IPS. Zhuravel, with his partner, Daria Tishchenko-Zhuravel, have used art to communicate and express the horrors of the war since 2014.
A Plea for the Creation of a UN Youth Assembly
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 05 (IPS) - There are many ways the UN can have a sizeable role in promoting the engagement and participation of youth and helping them becoming a central pillar of a new way of doing policy-making.
Transforming Girls Education, Changing The World
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 02 (IPS) - As we approach this year’s Transforming Education Summit, global leaders can and must prioritize expertise and mobilize political will to support efforts to ensure inclusive and quality education for all, especially girls. This is at the heart of Sustainable Development Goal 4 in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as the commitments made in the Charlevoix Declaration and the G7 Declaration on Girls’ Education.
To Be Black (and Crash the Goal) in Nagorno-Karabakh
- Inter Press Service
STEPANAKERT, Nagorno Karabakh, Sep 02 (IPS) - "This year the weather in Nagorno-Karabakh is warmer than in my home country, Senegal," jokes Sow Ababacar, a 22-year-old footballer from the local stadium in Stepanakert, the capital of this Caucasus enclave. Although he once dreamed of playing for the Senegalese national team, the midfielder is currently training with the disputed territory´s national squad.
Racism Hurts People and Democracy in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Sep 01 (IPS) - Banning the use of the same bathroom, insults and calling people animals are just a few of the daily forms of racism experienced by people in Peru, a multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual country where various forms of discrimination are intertwined.
Monster Monsoon: “Pakistan and Its People Are Paying the Costs of What They Are Not Responsible For.”
- Inter Press Service
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sep 01 (IPS) - Pakistan has been going through the worst time of its recent history due to unprecedented colossal monsoon rains and devastating floods. The current floods would have been expected less than once a century, but climate experts claim that what we are seeing today is just a trailer of what’s in store for us if we don’t pay heed to climate change.
Mental Health as a Human Right Left Behind for Children in Fragile and Humanitarian Settings
- Inter Press Service
Copenhagen, Aug 30 (IPS) - Hiding in basements during bombings, fleeing their homes, going hungry, and facing the devastating and life-transformative traumas of losing their loved ones as their childhoods go up in flames of war. These are the lived experiences of crisis-impacted children and adolescents.
In Zimbabwe, Auxillia Mnangagwa is Following in Grace ‘Gucci’ Mugabe’s Path
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, Aug 26 (IPS) - On Friday, November 24, 2017, Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn as interim leader during a colourful ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in the capital Harare, after the ouster of President Robert Mugabe in a military coup more than a week before.
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