Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 341
An Uncertain Future for Palestinian Refugees
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 12 (IPS) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been forced to justify its existence at the United Nations ahead of a pledging conference later this month.
Championing Social Changes: A Tale of Two Women
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Spain, Jun 11 (IPS) - Karessa Ramos is Social Media Data Analyst for BBVA Microfinance Foundation based in Madrid.
This is the story of two women who are positively transforming social norms in their respective societies, as part of the global movement towards gender equality.
A Journey from a Small-Scale Farm to International Stage
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 10 (IPS) - Chinasa Asonye is CEO of Chileofarms, a women's farming collective.
As a wife and mother in Nigeria who wanted to support my family and my community, I began my own farm in 2006. When I began, I never could have dreamed that just cultivating the earth would someday lead to my meeting government leaders, and traveling to meet other women from around the world doing their part to make a difference in their own communities.
UN Says Kyrgyz Journalist Should be Freed
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 10 (IPS) - Gulnoza Said* is Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Europe and Central Asia
On a recent morning in Bazar-Korgon, southern Kyrgyzstan, Khadicha Askarova was giving hasty instructions to her daughter about what needed to be packed.
Venezuelans Left Without Assistance in Washington
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 (IPS) - Venezuelans in the city of Washington D.C., in the United States, are currently without consular protection as access to their country's embassy has remained unstable since April.
Mothers in the US Are Dying: What Are We Doing to Save Them?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jun 07 (IPS) - Juan Pablo Segura is Co-founder of Babyscripts, the leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics.
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is the highest of any developed country – and the rate is rising. The US is currently the most dangerous place to give birth in the developed world.
What Standardised Testing Doesn't Tell Us About Learning
- Inter Press Service
THANE, MAHARASHTRA, India, Jun 06 (IPS) - When we look at learning outcomes for children, we only look at standardised tests, ignoring any indigenous knowledge, language, or problem solving strategies they might have.
Mobilisation Needed for Climate-Related Disasters
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 05 (IPS) - Climate-related displacement and food insecurity is not a future possibility, but it is already happening and it's only projected to worsen without urgent action in coming years.
India's Most Significant Innovations Have Roots in Civil Society
- Inter Press Service
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Jun 04 (IPS) - When we look at some of the things we take for granted in India today, there is a common thread to all of them. Every single one. They all originated from civil society.
The World Has Lost Its Compass
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 03 (IPS) - The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government which has been the most inefficient in history, quarrelling on everything every single day and looking with total indifference to the looming problem of how to establish the next budget without clashing with the European Union or squeezing Italian citizens? Its irresponsible debate on the Italian finances has now led to a spread (difference of value) of 290 points with the Germans.
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