Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 228
Call It ‘Old’, ‘Contemporary’, ‘Modern’ or Whatever: It Is Slavery
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 01 (IPS) - No matter what it is called -- it is the abhorrent daily life of a billion enslaved humans. The real number of “modern” slaves is understandably unknown. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery.
How to Tackle the Femicide Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
BRISTOL, UK, Nov 30 (IPS) - Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the increase in domestic violence rates has led the United Nations to declare a ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender-based violence. In the most brutal cases, the violence has led to murder – or ‘femicide’, as the World Health Organisation calls the killing of women specifically because of their gender.
Pakistan: Gender-Intentional Policy Can Make Agent Banking Work Better
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Nov 29 (IPS) - Many women in Pakistan remain financially excluded. In 2020, only 7% of the female population had a formal account.
One of the reasons for this is that agent networks — the bridge between the cash economy and digital financial services — remain largely inaccessible to many women. Approaching policy and regulation through a gender-intentional lens that considers prevailing social norms can help regulators affect positive change in this arena.
UNESCO Member States Adopt Recommended Ethics for AI
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Nov 26 (IPS) - The member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have agreed on a text of recommended ethics for artificial intelligence (AI) that states can apply on a “voluntary” basis.
School Meals Coalition Hopes to Provide a Meal to Every Child
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Nov 26 (IPS) - Meals at schools not only give each child a nutritious meal but increase enrolments, among other benefits.
Ongoing Pandemic Push Africa's Children Out of School
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Nov 24 (IPS) - Kenya’s secondary schools’ administration has been in the eye of a storm since schools reopened in October 2021. Since then, students have set on fire 35 schools and counting, forcing the government to announce an unscheduled break from school – ahead of the planned December 23 closing.
Feminism Weaponized Against Trans People
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK / KAMPALA, Nov 24 (IPS) - There is a resurgence of anti-trans sentiment right now. It’s not only Dave Chapelle’s toxic rants in his most recent Netflix special: we see it across social, political and cultural arenas including in JK Rowling's ongoing embrace of trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs); the introduction of bills designed to harm trans kids in the US; Uganda's Sexual Offenses bill, which violates international human rights; and “gender-critical” academics like Kathleen Stock profiting from their inflammatory rhetoric.
No Vaccine for the Pandemic of Violence Against Women in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Nov 24 (IPS) - Despite significant legal advances in Latin American countries to address gender-based violence, it continues to be a serious challenge, especially in a context of social crisis aggravated by the covid-19 pandemic, which hits women especially hard.
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: What Went Wrong During Indias COVID-19 Response
- Inter Press Service
Nov 23 (IPS) - From its devastating economic impact and the migrant crisis to the startling death toll, the COVID-19 pandemic in India unfurled one crisis after the other. The glaring gaps in our system, which had always been there, became even more prominent during the pandemic. There is one question at the back of everyone’s mind that still remains unanswered: What went wrong?
Yet Another Scourge: A Third of All Women are Subjected to Violence
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Nov 23 (IPS) - Thirty percent of women and girls suffered physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, most frequently by an intimate partner. And more than 70 percent of all sold, bought and enslaved victims of human smuggling and trafficking are women and girls -- three out of four of them are sexually exploited.
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