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[ad_1] by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, February 22, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Feb 22 (IPS) – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian...
[ad_1] Hate speech loads the gun, misinformation pulls the trigger – And that’s the kind of the relationship that we’ve come to understand over the years....
[ad_1] Industrially produced trans fat is responsible for up to 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year, according to WHO. Credit: Shutterstock. by Baher...
[ad_1] War damage in Borodianka, Kyiv Oblast. Photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, January 20, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jan 20...
[ad_1] Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached 592 billion US dollars in 2021, a 1.9% increase compared...
[ad_1] “There is no migration crisis; there is a crisis of solidarity” says UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. Credit: Credit: UNOHCR by Baher Kamal (madrid) Monday, December 19,...
[ad_1] About 60% of the poorest countries are already at high risk of debt distress or already in distress. Credit: Pixabay. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Wednesday, December...
[ad_1] While corruption levels remain at a standstill worldwide, in Western Europe and the European Union, 84% of countries have declined or made little to no...
[ad_1] Multinational companies bribing their way into foreign markets go largely unpunished, and victims’ compensation is rare, according to new report. Credit: Ashwath Hedge/Wikimedia Commons by...
[ad_1] By 2050, droughts may affect an estimated three-quarters of the world’s population. Credit: Miriet Abrego / IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Thursday, December 01, 2022 Inter...
[ad_1] Around 7,500 litres of water are used to make a single pair of jeans, equivalent to the amount of water the average person drinks over...
[ad_1] Children from marginalised ethnic, language and religious groups, from 22 low and middle-income countries which were analysed, lag far behind their peers in reading skills....
[ad_1] A new analysis of the “investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year,...
[ad_1] A Dalit woman stands outside a dry toilet located in an upper caste villager’s home in Mainpuri, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh....
[ad_1] In each of the three global food crises studied, financial speculation has caused steep increases in prices, making food inaccessible to hundreds of millions of...
[ad_1] “To force poor countries to repay a loan to cope with a climate crisis they hardly caused is profoundly unfair. Instead of supporting countries that...
[ad_1] One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as...
[ad_1] European Union leaders struggle to find solutions for the energy crisis. Credit: Bigstock by Baher Kamal (madrid) Monday, October 24, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Oct...
[ad_1] Rural women are less able to access land, credit, agricultural inputs, markets, and high-value agrifood chains and obtain lower prices for their crops. Credit: Mallika...
[ad_1] Mineral supply chains are often linked to child abuse, human trafficking, forced labour and other human rights violations. Credit: Tommy Trenchard/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Monday,...