News headlines for “Democracy”, page 355
UK Announces Aid Package for Gaza’s Hospitals in Near Breaking Point
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Mar 29 (IPS) - The UK Government has announced an aid package to support hospitals in Gaza that are "near breaking point".
The £2 million package will go to the International Committee of the Red Cross's 2019 Israel and Occupied Territories (ILOT) Appeal. The aid will contribute to surgical equipment, drugs, wound dressing kits, prosthetics, and post-surgery physiotherapy for up to 3,000 disabled people.
Making it in India: Women Struggle to Break Down Barriers Starting a Business
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 29 (IPS) - Ashlin Mathew is a news editor for the National Herald newspaper in New Delhi.
Radhika Baburao Shinde was all of 12 years old when she was married off to a man who was 10 years older. She was sent away to live with her new husband, a truck driver, and his family in remote, drought-prone Satara district, 330 kilometers southwest of Mumbai. She left school and went to work as a laborer on her husband's family farm.
Bridging the Gaps for the Disabled
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 29 (IPS) - People with disabilities are being left behind, and steps must be taken to ensure their inclusion in the world of education and work.
Civil Society Organisations Under Attack by Rightwing Governments & Extremist Groups
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (IPS) - This article is part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs), which will be the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS, and scheduled to take place in Belgrade, April 8-12.
The widespread political repression in countries such as the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia-- and rising right-wing nationalism in the US, Brazil, Italy, India, Poland and Hungary-- have increasingly triggered attacks on human rights and civil society organisations (CSOs).
Safe Menstrual Practices Important for Progress
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (IPS) - As menstruation continues to be shamed in many communities, one organisation is rising up to the challenge to ensure "safe menstruation for all women of Bangladesh."
The Campaign Against Greta is an Index of the Loss of Values
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 28 (IPS) - Since the powerful march of hundreds of thousands of students in 1,000 towns against climate change, an unexpected campaign of delegitimation, "demystification" and demonisation has started against Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who started the movement. After searching the media, social media and websites, this campaign can be divided into four different groups.
“Don’t Tell My Husband I Have Leprosy”: Social Stigma Silences Marshall Islands’ Women
- Inter Press Service
MAJURO, Mar 28 (IPS) - Meretha Pierson has been a nurse for the past seven years, working in the government-run leprosy clinic in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. Her patients come in all ages, from different economic backgrounds and different professions. But, aside from their diagnosis, they all have something else in common: everyone wants to keep their illness a secret.
Japan’s Gender Gap
- Inter Press Service
CHICAGO, Illinois, Mar 27 (IPS) - KAZUO YAMAGUCHI is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago*.
Japan is not making progress in gender equality, at least relative to the rest of the world. Despite the Japanese government's attempts in recent years to pass legislation promoting the economic activity of women, Japan ranked a miserable 110 out of 149 in the World Economic Forum's 2018 Gender Gap Index, which benchmarks countries on their progress toward gender parity across four major areas.
Changing Weather Will Affect Living Standards of Half of India's Population
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 27 (IPS) - Richard Mahapatra is Managing Editor, Down To Earth, Asia's premier fortnightly on politics of environment and development published by the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on January 16 declared that 2018 was the sixth- warmest year in the last 117 years or since 1901, when recording started. Pointing towards changing weather and climate parameters, it also noted that the last monsoon rainfall was the sixth-lowest since 1901.
Monoculture Crops Threaten Community Water Projects in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN CARLOS LEMPA, El Salvador, Mar 27 (IPS) - For nearly three decades, several communities in southeastern El Salvador have collectively and efficiently managed the water they consume, but monoculture production and climate change put their water at risk.
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