Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 279
A New Social Contract Needed for Children on the Move
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 10 (IPS) - Forced to flee wars and disasters, sometimes without family, and struggling to survive in the worst of circumstances, children on the move have long led very precarious lives. Be they refugees, internally displaced or asylum seekers, vulnerable and marginalised, they lose years of childhood. They are exposed to the worst forms of abuse, such as commercial exploitation and violence. Today, their situation is dire as they remain at the very bottom of the list to receive emergency measures to protect them from the impacts of COVID-19.
Acidic Masculinity
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 10 (IPS) - The recent attack on 22 year old Pavitra Karki has yet again stoked the discourse on acid attacks and gender based violence in Nepal. Pavitra is one of the many young women in Nepal who were targeted by young males, a tragic but more and more common occurrence in the country and elsewhere in South Asia.
Hold Corporates Accountable for Using Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Sep 09 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic should give governments across the world an opportunity to hold corporates accountable against child labour. Kailash Satyarthi, the 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate, made this submission at the virtual 3rd Fair Share for Children Summit.
COVID-19 Pandemic an Opportunity to Re-evaluate How we Treat World's Starving Children
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 09 (IPS) - While COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world, Nobel Laureates and world leaders have today expressed concern that ongoing crisis is far from being an equaliser. The pandemic has revealed that the most vulnerable and marginalised populations, including and especially children, remain largely unprotected against the virus and its impacts.
Re-inventing Multilateral Solidarity: Rhetoric, Reaction or Realignment of Power?
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 09 (IPS) - Multilateral solidarity is gaining traction as the slogan for mobilizing support for international cooperation and for the UN. Is it replacing or merely renaming cross-border obligations, many of which have been enshrined over decades in UN treaties, conventions and agreements, and the principle of common but differentiated responsibility in their implementation?
Caring for Poorest and Most Underserved Children Vital for Creating a Better World
- Inter Press Service
HYDERBAD, India, Sep 08 (IPS) - Kerry Kennedy has a clear mission – along with Nobel laureates and leading international figures – she wishes to ensure that hard-won gains in children's rights are not destroyed by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Failing Africa’s Farmers, Starving the Continent
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - African organizations are demanding answers after a recent report found that Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) strategies have failed spectacularly to meet its goals of increasing productivity and incomes for millions of small-scale farming households by 2020 while reducing food insecurity on the continent.
Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Where to Find the $1 trillion Needed for Marginalised Children
- Inter Press Service
HYDERBAD, India, Sep 08 (IPS) - Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi says that $1 trillion can solve many of the problems the world's most marginalised communities are facing.
COVID-19: Lessons from the Losses
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 07 (IPS) - If countries considered Universal Health Coverage (UHC) a central policy in their health systems, the COVID-19 has surely demonstrated the need for its urgent and widespread roll out. The pandemic has upended world systems in a manner that no scientists or sophisticated global intelligence could have foreseen.
A Red Notice against Trump?
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 07 (IPS) - When INTERPOL is asked to intervene against targeted killing.
Last June, news broke that Iran had issued an arrest warrant and asked INTERPOL for help in detaining US President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believed had carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.1 INTERPOL denied this request,2 stating that it "would not consider requests of this nature" because "it is strictly forbidden for the Organisation to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character."3
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