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WEBGlobal Community Urged to Help Deliver Quality, Holistic Education for Ukrainian Children. In a major escalation of a conflict that started in 2014 and which is the largest in Europe since World War II, Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Since then, thousands of Ukrainian civilians—many of them women and children—have lost their lives.
Multilateral Systems in Urgent Need of Reform, Says UN SG
WEB1 day ago · UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 2024 (IPS) - As the United Nations gears up to host the international community for the high-level meeting week, the UN chief appeals to world leaders to commit to universal agreements to work towards solutions. On Wednesday, Secretary-General António Guterres spoke to reporters ahead of the upcoming 79 th high-level session of the UN General Assembly and the Summit of ...
What does Russia Trade with Africa? | Inter Press Service
WEB10 hours ago · The most successful pillar of Russia’s conventional trade with Africa is arms, managed mainly by state-controlled Rosoboronexport. Between 2010 and 2021 Russian arms exports to Africa dwarfed those of every other supplier and were three times greater than those of China, the second-biggest over the period, according to SIPRI.
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WEBBy Norman Solomon. One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the Movies” on NBC. The ad began with an adorable three-year-old girl counting petals as she pulled them from a daisy. Then came a man’s somber voiceover, counting down from ten to ...
Mexican chinampas survive surrounded by threats
WEB1 day ago · Mexican Crescencio Hernández orders radishes, herbs and lettuce for shipment to an alternative market in west-central Mexico City. The vegetables have been harvested from his chinampa, a pre-Hispanic wetland farming system that survives in three boroughs in the south of the Mexican capital, albeit surrounded by multiple threats. Hernández, 44, married without children, attributed the …
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WEBThis is the century to move from politicisation of human rights towards humanising political ways. IPS keeps an eye on that difficult path. News, features and analyses on Human Rights from IPS Inter Press Service - News and Views from the Global South.
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WEBWASHINGTON DC, Apr 10 2024 (IPS) - Earlier this year, the Biden administration paused action on pending approvals for U.S. liquefied natural gas exports to countries without a U.S. free-trade agreement, with President Biden citing ”the urgency of the climate crisis.”. The decision was hailed by climate activists and criticized by oil and ...
Climate Change | IPS Inter Press Service | News Agency
WEBA cascade of crises endangers our world. Wars conducted without rules, governance devoid of democratic principles, surge in discrimination against women and excluded groups, accelerating climate change, greed-induced environmental degradation and unconscionable economic deprivation in an age of excess are threatening to roll back decades of human progress made by the international community.
IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse - Inter Press Service
WEBIt was dubbed "The Glass House" by U.S. ambassador James Wadsworth in 1966. Half a century later, the United Nations has gradually expanded its role as agent of peace and protector of the world's vulnerable populations, while simultaneously facing internal pressures to become more inclusive, increase transparency and maintain legitimacy in the post-Cold War political and economic order.
Middle East & North Africa News - Inter Press Service
WEBAs the devastating 11-month-old conflict in Gaza keeps escalating, with over 41,000 mostly civilian killings, and more than 92,000 Palestinians injured --in retaliation for the 1,200 killings inside Israel last October-- the Israelis continue to defy the United States which maintains its uninterrupted flow of heavy weapons to Tel Aviv.
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