By Mary Robinson*, Exclusive to IPS DUBLIN, Sep 16 2020 (IPS) – The impacts of crises are never gender-neutral and COVID-19 is no exception. The pandemic has resulted in increased rates of violence against women and has exacerbated challenges in… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN – OTHERNEWS 05-3-ON-ENGLISH This is the reason why 5 years conservable “LIFE BREAD” was born We would like to help the children suffering from the starvation in the world”. This is the reason why Mr. Terushige Nakazato,… Continue Reading
Ahmet Insel* – for VoxEurop The human tragedy being played out on the Greek-Turkish border definitively buries one of the greatest achievements of international humanitarian law – and with the blessing of the European Union. The timing is good for… Continue Reading
UN News UNITED NATIONS, Mar 4 2020 – Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing equal rights – violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new… Continue Reading
Robin Kelly and David Hogg (*) – Newsweek About seven years ago, President Barack Obama issued an urgent plea while speaking with Sandy Hook Elementary School families in Newtown, Connecticut. He said America was failing to protect our nation’s most… Continue Reading
By The New York Times, Reporting from the World Economic Forum in Davos DAVOS, Switzerland — Greta Thunberg spoke here Tuesday afternoon at an event hosted by The New York Times and the World Economic Forum. Here is the full… Continue Reading
By Farhana Haque Rahman * ROME, Jan 6 2020 (IPS) – Let’s face what lies ahead with open eyes: 2020 is going to be a very tough year for the world, and developing countries in particular. The infant decade has already begun… Continue Reading
Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media The 18th century enclosure of our planet’s common natural resources that fueled the rise of capitalism began in Britain and was described by Karl Polanyi in the Great Transformation (1946). I explored in depth… Continue Reading
David Miliband* – Opinion, Newsweek No one pretends that managing a refugee and migration crisis is easy. Not Colombia, with at least 1.5 million people fleeing from Venezuela. Nor Uganda, with over 1.5 million refugees from South Sudan. Nor Germany,… Continue Reading
By John Scales Avery* Loving care for our children We give our children loving care, but it makes no sense to do so unless we do everything in our power to give them a future world in which they can… Continue Reading
Jess Morales Rocketto* – Newsweek The family separation and detention crisis at the border is even worse than we thought. News last week revealed that the Trump administration detained nearly 70,000 children in immigration custody in the past year, surpassing… Continue Reading
By John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which reviews the lives and thoughts of some of the women and men who have addressed the crucial problems of ecology… Continue Reading
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation That, plus Supreme Court clearance for a white-nationalist asylum policy, and GOP dirty tricks in North Carolina—all in a week’s work for the Trumpists While many in the media were fixated on Trump’s Twitter… Continue Reading
By Tamara Tutnjevic Gorman* NEW YORK, Jul 16 2019 (IPS) – Despite what you might have heard, things are getting better, every year. We are making amazing progress on fighting diseases, reducing the preventable deaths of children, and investing huge… Continue Reading
By Robert J. Burrowes* I have previously written many articles describing one or more aspects of the dysfunctional nature of the typical human mind, together with an explanation of how this came about and what we can do about it.… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2019 (IPS) – The world’s 10 most under reported displacement crises— which have rendered millions of people homeless– have continued to worsen due either to political neglect, a shortage of funds or lack of… Continue Reading
Reto Thumiger* – Pressenza Berlin. 31.03.2019 – More than 25,000, mostly pupils and students, have gathered again in Berlin to give visible and audible expression to the climate strike “Fridays for the Future”. Most of the participants were not… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, March 27, 2019 (OtherNews) — 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… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, March 2019 – If we ever needed a proof, to see how the political system has become self referent, and unable to update itself, the last student march, in more than 1.000 towns, is a very… Continue Reading
