Wind turbines overlooking Vyas Chhatri, traditional architecture of Jasalmer district in Rajasthan. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS by Athar Parvaiz (new delhi) Monday, November 04, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW DELHI,…
Read more Is India Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Fast Enough To Achieve Its Emission Targets?Frequent gang attacks in Haiti’s capital city, Port-Au-Prince have forced this family to flee its home. Credit: UNICEF/Ralph Tedy Erol by Oritro Karim (united nations) Saturday, November 02, 2024…
Read more Conditions Deteriorate from Persisting Gang Violence in HaitiThe UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the largest aid agency in the Gaza Strip where it provides emergency and other assistance to vulnerable Palestinians. Credit: UNRWA…
Read more Hope Springs Eternal—Dashed it’s DeadlyResidents pose behind the sprinkler that irrigates an alfalfa field thanks to the energy generated by a photovoltaic panel installed on Fanny Lastra’s property in Mirador de Bío…
Read more Small Farmers Reap Growing Benefits From Solar Energy in ChileIndigenous women in Cali hold a protest commodificationof their traditional natural products. Majority of the indigenous organizations participants in the COP have been vocal about their opposition to…
Read more At COP16, Biodiversity Credits Raising Hopes and ProtestsDelegates from the Forum of Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development and the Asian Population and Development Association met in Cairo to discuss support for people with disabilities…
Read more Egyptian Parliament Moves to Strengthen Support for People with Disabilities and the ElderlyOpinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 22 (IPS) – New institutional economics (NIE) has received another…
Read more Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional EconomicsWithout investing in social development and crisis response, vulnerable communities are more susceptible to the impacts and stressors put on by multiple crises. Credit: UN Women_Ryan Brown by…
Read more Overlapping Crises Hinder Global Social Development and Poverty ReductionDeodat Maharaj, Managing Director of the United Nations Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries Opinion by Deodat Maharaj (united nations) Friday, October 18, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS,…
Read more A Pact for the World’s Poorestby Oritro Karim (united nations) Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) – The next round of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, a…
Read more The Health of Gaza is Dependent on Humanitarian PauseOpinion by Danielle Nierenberg (baltimore, maryland usa) Monday, October 14, 2024 Inter Press Service BALTIMORE, Maryland USA, Oct 14 (IPS) – World Food Day 2024 World Food Day seems…
Read more When Will World Food Day be a Day to Actually Celebrate?Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo waws today awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Credit: Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize by IPS Correspondent (united nations) Friday, October 11, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS,…
Read more Guterres Congratulates Nihon Hidankyo For Nobel Prize For Efforts To Rid Humanity of Nuclear WeaponsThe iconic Chinese fishing nets along the Kerala coast offer a picturesque scene that draws tourists from around the world. However, the fishworkers that have used them for…
Read more With Climate Change, Government Apathy, Who Should Kerala’s Fishworkers Turn To?September 26th marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Credit: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Darren Ornitz Opinion by Tariq Rauf (vienna, austria) Tuesday,…
Read more Playing Nuclear Games: Tickling the Tail of the Promethean Nuclear Fire DragonIllicit financial flows. Credit: IPS Opinion by Khalid Saifullah (new york) Friday, October 04, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Oct 04 (IPS) – Khalid Saifullah, Fellow, Save Bangladesh…
Read more To Put a Stop to Siphoning off Money, Start with DataSection of Castries, Saint Lucia. Through ambitious NDCs, SIDS like Saint Lucia are hoping to shore up resilience and protect their economies and infrastructure. Access to adequate climate…
Read more COP 29: High Stakes for Small Islands Fighting for Climate FinanceThe panel for the session on “Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Imagining a World without Nuclear Weapons.” Credit: AD McKenzie/IPS by AD McKenzie (paris) Friday, September 27, 2024 Inter Press…
Read more Activists Call on World to ‘Imagine’ Peace, End Nuclear ArmsAchieving the goal of tripling renewables generation capacity by 2030, and more broadly decarbonizing the global electricity system, requires active SPCU involvement. Credit: Bigstock. Opinion by Leonardo Beltran,…
Read more Tripling Renewables Powered by State-Owned Power Companies and UtilitiesDr. Tshilidzi Marwala, USG and Rector of the United Nations University, and Ms. Kaoru Nemeto, Director of the United Nations Information Centre during a discussion ‘Building the Future:…
Read more Summit of the Future: Youth Driven Action Needed to Tackle Nuclear and Climate Crisesby Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday, September 19, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) – In early September, Typhoon Yagi, a deadly tropical cyclone, hit Southeast…
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