News headlines for “Democracy”, page 356
French Museum Puts Spotlight on Immigrants’ Musical Impact
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 26 (IPS) - Amid the morass of Brexit and continuous debates on immigration, a French museum has launched a thought-provoking exhibition about music and migration.
The Destruction of the Environment: An Unfolding Tragedy for Humanity
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 (IPS) - Jon Hall is Policy Specialist at the Human Development Report Office, UNDPLate last year the World Wide Fund for Nature released their Living Planet Report for 2018. WWF's estimates were stark: populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have, on average, declined by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014.
What They Need: Money, Resources, & a Seat at the Table
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 25 (IPS) - Marcy Hersh is the Senior Manager for Humanitarian Advocacy at Women Deliver, whose Humanitarian Advocates Program elevates the voices of women, and the organizations they lead, to help ensure they have a seat at the decision-making table.
As a long-time advocate, I've been invited to speak at dozens of global conferences about the needs of girls and women in humanitarian emergencies.
Q&A: 'The Knowledge of Local Challenges Can Only Come from Working with People'
- Inter Press Service
Mar 25 (IPS) - The remarkable story of an Adivasi lawyer and social activist who has led peoples' movements against state development policies, and sought redress for human rights violations of his people in conflict-ridden regions of Maharashtra.
Q&A: Why Treating Leprosy as a Special Disease Violates the Rights of the Person Affected by It
- Inter Press Service
MAJURO, Mar 25 (IPS) - IPS Correspondent Stella Paul interviews DR ARTURO CUNANAN, one of the world's leading experts on leprosy and Medical Centre Chief of Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital in the Philippines.
His multiple awards and degrees aside, Dr. Arturo Cunanan is known as a people's doctor; one who has profound belief in the human rights of every person affected by Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy.
Words Matter: Trump and the Massacres in Christchurch
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 25 (IPS) - I am the god of Hell Fire
and I bring you fire.
I'll take you to burn!
Fire, I'll take you to learn.
I'll see you burn!
-- Jacob Louis PlantThese lyrics are from Fire, the only hit by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, which in 1968 sold over one million singles. Brenton Tarrant played it in his car while he triumphantly left the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. He had just gunned down around 100 unarmed worshippers and was on his way to another mosque to continue the slaughter before Friday prayers ended on 15 March. His murderous rampage finished by the Linwood Islamic Centre, where he could not find the entrance. He shut a man and his wife, whom he encountered outside the building and then shattered a window with a hail of bullets, killing five more inside, while he shouted that everyone had to leave the mosque. A courageous shop keeper rushed out and throw a credit card reader at Tarrant, who rushed back to his car followed by the shop keeper, who shattered the windshield with a handgun he had picked up from the ground. Tarrant run away, but was almost immediately restrained by police who had been able to trace him.
South-South Cooperation: a Path to Implementing UN’s 2030 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 25 (IPS) - I see five issues that will be central to implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change and achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. South-South Cooperation can offer solutions to all of them.
Communication, a Key Tool for South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 25 (IPS) - Communication can be a key tool for the development of cooperation among the countries of the global South, but the ever closer relations between them do not receive the attention they deserve from the media.
South-South Cooperation Now Triangulates with the North
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 24 (IPS) - It sounds like a contradictory play on words, but the countries of the industrialised North are currently the big supporters of South-South cooperation, as was demonstrated at the United Nations Second High-Level Conference on this subject, held in the Argentine capital.
A New Window for Delhi’s Migrant Women & Girls
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Mar 22 (IPS) - Marites Sison is Communications Officer at the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
When the most devastating flood in Bihar's history came in 1987, Renu Devi recalled that the rampaging waters and landslides had swept away people who were sleeping, along with their beds.
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