News headlines for “Democracy”, page 29
African Debt & Climate Change: How the ICJ’s Vanuatu Ruling Could be Used for Broader Justice
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, September 1 (IPS) - African sovereign debtors in distress face terrible choices. They are often forced to choose between fully paying their creditors and financing the needs of their populations – health, education, renewable energy, water.
‘Who Will Take the Mic at the United Nations When Doing so Might Cost Them Their Freedom?’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS discusses civil society’s challenges in engaging with United Nations (UN) processes with an activist from a Salvadoran queer-led organisation who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons.
UN Reforms Include “Painful Staff Reductions”—and Forcible Return to Home Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 29 (IPS) - The 193-member General Assembly, the UN’s highest policy-making body, will make the ultimate decision on the proposed UN restructuring, which will include staff cutbacks, merging or eliminating of departments and relocating UN agencies from high-cost to low-cost locations.
DRC: Reforesting Sites Once Used by War Displaced People
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 29 (IPS) - The Youth Circle for Nature Conservation and Community Development is working toward the reforestation of sites where displaced people lived near the town of Goma.
Soka Gakkai President Issues Statement on Creating a World Without War to Mark 80 Years Since End of World War II
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, August 28 (IPS) - Minoru Harada, president of the Soka Gakkai Buddhist organization, has today issued a statement marking 80 years since the end of World War II, titled “Creating a Wave of Change Toward a Century Without War,” clarifying its ongoing commitment to peace.
‘Israeli Offensive in Gaza City an Existential Threat to the Two-State Solution’
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 28 (IPS) - Ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spoke to the press on the “unfolding tragedy that is Gaza,” calling Israel’s new plans to take over Gaza City with the military a “deadly escalation” and an “existential threat to the two-state solution.”
Afghan Journalism Under Siege: Arrests, Censorship, and Collapse
- Inter Press Service
PRAGUE, August 28 (IPS) - Ahmad Siyar works in road construction in Balkh province. He wears a safety helmet to protect himself from debris constantly falling from the mountain where the road is being built. Once, he wore the same type of helmet for a very different reason. He was reporting from various parts of northern Afghanistan. Back then, his helmet bore the word “Journalist” in both Dari and English.
The Right to Care: A Feminist Legal Victory That Could Change the Americas
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 28 (IPS) - On 7 August, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered a groundbreaking decision that could transform women’s lives across the Americas. For the first time in international law, an international tribunal recognised care as an autonomous human right. Advisory Opinion 31/25, issued in response to a request from Argentina, elevates care – long invisible and relegated to the private sphere – to the level of a universal enforceable entitlement.
Intensified Legal, Political, and Grassroots Battles Over Amazon Oil Expansion
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTÁ and SRINAGAR, India, August 27 (IPS) - A report has warned about the risks of expanding oil and gas exploration in the Colombian Amazon, which may undermine environmental goals, Indigenous rights, and long-term economic stability, unless the government pivots toward sustainable development pathways.
Hypertension and Diabetes Grows Among India’s Poor Communities
- Inter Press Service
MANN, India, August 26 (IPS) - Generally thought to be diseases of the wealthier classes, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like hypertension and diabetes are on the rise among India’s underprivileged working classes in semi-urban and rural sprawls.
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