Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 356
Five Years After Independence South Sudan Faces Myriad Challenges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) - South Sudan, the world's newest country faces myriad problems five years after achieving independence, aid agencies warned this week.
International Organizations Concerned by El Niño Funding Gap
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 05 (IPS) - The response to the 2015-2016 severe El Nino - which has effected over 60 million people from Southern Africa, to South-East Asia to Latin America - remains severely underfunded.
First Independent Expert To Tackle LGBTI Discrimination: "Historic Victory"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - Human rights groups have described the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) decision on Thursday to appoint an independent expert to target the ongoing discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people all over the world as a "historic victory."
Suspend Saudi Arabia from Human Rights Council, Human Rights Groups Say
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 30 (IPS) - Saudi Arabia's membership in the Human Rights Council (HRC) should be suspended by members of the UN General Assembly, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) said on Wednesday.
Uganda Rolls Out Compulsory Immunization to Dispel Anti-Vaccine Myths
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Jun 29 (IPS) - Patience*, a Ugandan maid, planned on taking her three-year-old son for polio immunization during the country's mass campaigns a year ago, until her landlord's wife told her a shocking myth.
Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Sweden Among New Members of UN Security Council
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 29 (IPS) - Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and Sweden were elected on Tuesday to serve on the UN Security Council (UNSC) as non-permanent members, while Italy and Netherlands have split the remaining contested seat.
Civil Society Under Serious Attack
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 27 (IPS) - Despite their contribution to social justice, civil society organisations came under "serious attack" in 109 countries in 2015, according to a new report published by CIVICUS Monday.
Women's Cooperatives Ease Burden of HIV in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 27 (IPS) - Seventy-three-year-old Dorcus Auma effortlessly weaves sisal fronds into a beautiful basket as she walks the tiny path that snakes up a hill. She wound up her farm work early because today, Thursday, she is required to attend her women's group gathering at the secretary's homestead.
Making Sustainability Part of the Corporate DNA
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25 (IPS) - Companies, governments and non-profit actors agree that economic growth and sustainable development have to go hand in hand to shape our increasingly globalised world in a fair way.
Least Developed Countries' Vulnerabilities Make Graduation Difficult
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25 (IPS) - Last month, over two thousand high-level participants from across the world met in Antalya, Turkey for the Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action, an action plan used to guide sustainable economic development efforts for Least Developed Countries for the 2011 to 2020 period. The main goal was to understand the lessons learnt by the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs) over the past five years and apply the knowledge moving forward.
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