Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 230
COP26: Avoiding Carbon Tunnel Vision: Action on Climate Change Needs an Inter-connected Response
- Inter Press Service
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Nov 10 (IPS) - With the UN climate change conference – COP26 – continuing this week in Glasgow, it’s obvious that there is consensus among a majority of world leaders and key stakeholders that much more needs to be done, if the ambition of keeping global warming to a 1.5-degree increase is to have any chance of being met. Yet talk, as they say, is cheap. Or, in the words of Greta: too much “blah, blah, blah” and not enough action.
COP26 - Adapting to the Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
OTTAWA, Canada, Nov 09 (IPS) - Look up any map showing today’s global humanitarian crises and you’ll find it awash in red alerts more than ever before. Climate emergencies are fast emerging in new areas that have never previously witnessed them, and they are accelerating humanity’s march towards the precipice in regions long battered by conflict, hunger and displacement.
West of The Nile and Around The Sudd
- Inter Press Service
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov 09 (IPS) - Tensions and hostilities persisted until early 2019, when the regime of Omar al-Bashir - to a large extent symbolized by oppressing minority groups in the Darfurs, Blue Nile state and South Kordofan - finally ended. Meanwhile, many inhabitants of the Nuba Mountains and other parts of South Kordofan, had escaped to South Sudan, which had become independent in 2011.
Indigenous Peoples Want to Move Towards Clean Energy Sovereignty
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Nov 09 (IPS) - In the community of Bella Bella on Turtle Island in the western Canadian province of British Columbia, the indigenous Heiltsuk people capture heat from the air through devices in 40 percent of their homes, in a plan aimed at sustainable energy sovereignty.
China's Risky Strategic Game in Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Nov 08 (IPS) - Before the February 1 coup, China was among the top international partners of the now-in-opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). From 2015 to early 2020, when China closed its borders due to COVID-19, NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi made five trips to China and met the Chinese President Xi Jinping five times.
Daughters of a Lesser God (II) 200 Million Girls Mutilated
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Nov 05 (IPS) - While male circumcision is spread mainly among Muslim and other religious communities, and it is apparently accepted by some medical spheres, more than 200 million girls have already fallen prey to a dangerous, abhorrent practice, which is carried out in the name of social and religious traditions: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
As a Humanitarian Crisis Engulfs Afghanistan, Education Cannot Wait Makes Urgent Appeal for Access to Quality Learning for All Children
- Inter Press Service
New York, Nov 05 (IPS) - After leading a landmark, first-ever all-women mission to Afghanistan last week, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, says that schools must reopen for all children and that girls, in particular, must be able to return to secondary school classrooms.
In Glasgow, Indigenous People Pound the Table for Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
GLASGOW, Nov 04 (IPS) - "For my people, the effects of climate change are a daily reality. The rainy season is shorter and when it rains, there are floods. And we have suffered from drought," said Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a member of the Wodaabe or Mbororo pastoral people of Chad.
Zimbabwe's High-Risk Cross-Border Trade
- Inter Press Service
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Nov 04 (IPS) - Thirty-six-year-old Thandiwe Mtshali* watched helplessly as her informal cross-border trading (ICBT) enterprise came to a grinding halt when the Zimbabwean authorities closed the border with South Africa as part of global efforts to stem the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.
Daughters of a Lesser God (I) 800 Million Girls Forced to Be Mothers
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Nov 03 (IPS) - Imagine your child, your daughter, being genitally mutilated and, further on, sold or even handed over for free to an older man who will force her to become a child mother, when her body is still far from being formed and thus able to bear with a so early pregnancy.
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