By Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden and Rich Schapiro (*) – NBC News The new characters, Noor Yasmin and Aziz, are part of an effort to boost early education for children inside the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Packed inside a…
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 accessing justice. Women are…
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 in the developing world. But the…
by DEVNET JAPAN – OTHERNEWS 05-3-ON-ENGLISH This is the reason why 5 years conservable “LIFE BREAD” was born A loaf of Life Bread expires in 5 years, that’s the perfect aid to reduce starvation Mr. Terushige Nakazato, President of Succem Co., LTD. (Succem) We would like to help…
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 the autocrat Erdogan…
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 UN report revealed. While there have been…
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 valued treasure—our children…
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 transcript of her remarks: One year ago I came to…
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 with the harbingers of climate disaster…
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 all the…
