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[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] Trains and trucks move cargo in the port of Veracruz, in southeastern Mexico, on August 30, 2022. Through that infrastructure, the second largest in the...
[ad_1] by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, December 05, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Dec 05 (IPS) – A head of state who presided over an...
[ad_1] Opinion by Jens Orback (stockholm, sweden) Friday, December 02, 2022 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec 02 (IPS) – As 2022 draws to a close, we...
[ad_1] Children working and travelling on India’s vast rail network need to be educated about the perils of trafficking. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor...
[ad_1] Credit: UN Photo/Albert González Farran Opinion by Robert Sandford (hamilton, canada) Thursday, December 01, 2022 Inter Press Service HAMILTON, Canada, Dec 01 (IPS) – Last year’s...
[ad_1] The United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) require the governments to remove all barriers to information access – including those...
[ad_1] Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Timothy A. Wise (boston and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Inter Press Service BOSTON and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 (IPS)...
[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] After days of intense negotiations that stretched into early Sunday morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, countries at the latest UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, reached agreement...
[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] Opinion by Jaime Atienza, Charles Birungi (geneva) Monday, November 21, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Nov 21 (IPS) – In this moment of profound challenge in...
[ad_1] Opinion by Matti Kohonen (london) Friday, November 18, 2022 Inter Press Service The G20 summit motto was “Recovering Together, Recovering Stronger” yet the Joint Declaration failed...
[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] Opinion united nations Tuesday, November 15, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15 (IPS) – The global population is projected to reach 8 billion...
[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] A local resident of the Sitio el Zapotal community in El Zapote canton, El Salvador, turns on the tap to fill his sink to collect...
[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] Kathleen Mogelgaard Opinion by Kathleen Mogelgaard (washington dc) Friday, November 11, 2022 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Nov 11 (IPS) – Global population is about to...
[ad_1] Decision-making power is still held at the national and international level, often failing to (financially) enable local actors to lead climate action. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS...