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By Alison Kentish DOMINICA, Jul 1 2022 (IPS) – In the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the changing climate often eclipses the loss of ecosystems and species in funding and awareness. For years, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been one of the world’s most visible forces for policy…
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By Orlando Milesi SANTIAGO, Jul 1 2022 (IPS) – A Chilean government plan seeks to ensure connectivity in remote areas, in a first step to address a deep digital divide among the country’s inhabitants that includes a lack of access to technology and digital education deficits, exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, during the social isolation…
Read More “The Digital Divide, a Pending Issue in Chile’s Educational System” »
By Baher Kamal MADRID, Jul 1 2022 (IPS) – While the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit ended in Madrid on 30 June with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record. As advanced by…
Read More “New World Records: More Weapons than Ever. And a Hunger Crisis Like No Other” »
Published: June 24, 2022 7.51am EDT Why are some nations rich and others poor? Can the governments of poor nations do something to ensure that their nations become rich? These sorts of questions have long fascinated public officials and economists, at least since Adam Smith, the prominent Scottish economist whose famous 1776 book was titled…
By Edgardo Ayala SAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador , Jun 17 2022 (IPS) – At the pier, Salvadoran fisherman Nicolás Ayala checked the pocket of his pants to make sure he was carrying the hypertension pills he must take when he is at sea on a 24-hour shift. He smiled because he hadn’t forgotten them….
Read More “Small-Scale Fishers in Central America Demand Social Security Policies” »
By Sania Farooqui NEW DELHI, India, Jun 17 2022 (IPS) – Gynophobia is defined as an intense and irrational fear of women or hatred of women, it may be characterized as a form of specific phobias, which involves a fear that is centered on a specific trigger or situation, which in the case of gynophobia is women….
Read More “Taliban: The Return of Misogynistic Gynophobes in Afghanistan” »
By Isheba Cornwall MONA, Jamaica, Jun 17 2022 (IPS) – Hate speech is a phenomenon that can be defined as threatening speech or writing expressing prejudice towards a specific group, primarily based on race, religion, or sexual orientation. As a black undergraduate student from Jamaica, especially being a part of Generation Z, I have experienced countless…
Read More “Countering Hate Speech Through Media: A Young Caribbean Woman’s Perspective” »
By Baher Kamal MADRID, Jun 17 2022 (IPS) – In addition to slave selling and buying deals in public squares, as reported time ago in ‘liberated’ Libya, a widespread exploitation of men, women, and children has been carried out for years at refugee camps worldwide. One of them is a Malawi refugee camp, where such inhumane…
Read More “Slave Markets Open 24/7: Refugee Babies, Boys, Girls, Women, Men…” »
By Baher Kamal MADRID, Jun 3 2022 (IPS) – In a previous article, IPS reported on some of UNICEF’s key findings about the harsh impacts on the world’s children –and the whole Planet Earth– of the excessive consumption by mostly rich countries. One of these is that if everyone were to consume resources at the rate…
Read More “World Environment Day (II): Five More Planets Earth Urgently Needed” »
By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Jun 3 2022 (IPS) – Warfare and misinformation are intimately connected. The 29th of May was globally observed as The Day of Communication and due to the ongoing war in Ukraine it was difficult to avoid thinking of affiliated propaganda campaigns, carried out by warring factions and far from indifferent bystanders. Not…
Read More “Animal Farm, Ukrainian Resistance and Russian Propaganda” »
