Category: Global South

The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. June 2022. Credit: CIAT/Neil Palmer By Alon Ben-MeirNEW YORK, Nov 9 2022 (IPS) The electoral defeat of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is a triumph for everyone who is concerned about the peril of climate change. Bolsonaro’s well-deserved defeat could help save the Amazon rainforest, which has been ravaged under his criminal…

Read More “COP27: Bolsonaro’s Defeat is a Triumph for Climate Change Advocates” »

In Africa only 60% of the estimated TB cases have been diagnosed. All the other infections are hidden by poverty—and so the disease continues to spread. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS. By Morounfolu OlugbosiJOHANNESBURG, Nov 8 2022 (IPS) The news in many parts of the world is that tuberculosis (TB) is reclaiming the title of the world’s…

Read More “Progress on Tuberculosis Can Be Achieved in Africa” »

India’s population will likely overtake China’s population by 2023. Picture: Mumbai, India. Credit: Sthitaprajna Jena (CC BY-SA 2.0). By Joseph ChamiePORTLAND, USA, Nov 8 2022 (IPS) Contrary to the often-cited hype and nonsense of some celebrities reported in the news media, the world’s population of 8,000,000,000 human beings is not going to collapse any time…

Read More “World Population after 8,000,000,000” »

Miss World Brazil Letícia Frota and Pragnya Ayyagari, Miss Supranational India agreed that zero leprosy and campaigns to destigmatize the disease should not be sidelined because of COVID-19. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS By Joyce ChimbiNairobi, Nov 8 2022 (IPS) Deep-rooted discrimination against persons affected by leprosy or Hansen’s disease has marginalized individuals and communities. As social…

Read More “Younger Generation Needed in Efforts to Change the Leprosy Perceptions, Says Miss World Brazil” »

By Noeleen Heyzer UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27 2022 (IPS) – The political, human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar continues to take a catastrophic toll on the people, with serious regional implications. More than 13.2 million people are food insecure, about 40 percent of the population is living below the poverty line and 1.3 million are internally…

Read More “A New Political Reality in Myanmar: A People No Longer Willing to Accept Military Rule” »

By Hisham Allam Cairo, Oct 27 2022 (IPS) – COP 27’s official Youth Envoy, Dr Omnia El Omrani, realised the impact of climate change in 2017, and Hurricane Irma slammed Miami. As a doctor, she witnessed the influx of emergency patients into the hospital as a result of the hurricane, which piqued her interest in environmental…

Read More “COP27 President Envoy on Youth: With Hurricanes, Floods, Heatwaves, Climate Change Cannot Be Ignored” »

By Baher Kamal MADRID, Oct 27 2022 (IPS) – No. No lettuce, no matter how British it may be, could outlast such a steady depletion of the very foundation of life. Now, new facts about such depletion come to add to the already reported ones regarding the unstopped, man-made dangers threatening the present and future of indispensable…

Read More “Will The Lettuce Outlast All This?” »

By Mumtaz Mia and Juliane Drews GENEVA, Oct 28 2022 (IPS) – The organisational is personal. Every day since the two of us were asked back in 2020 to co-lead the process of culture transformation at UNAIDS, the United Nations organisation which drives global efforts to end AIDS, we have both felt at our very core how crucial it…

Read More “What Does it take to Build a Culture of Equality & Inclusion at the UN? Reflections from Inside a Change Process” »

By Kris Janssens PHNOM PENH, Oct 28 2022 (IPS) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen walks into a diplomatic minefield these days. He supports UN resolutions against Putin but does not want to jeopardize the long-standing friendship with Russia. At the same time, he tries to be less dependent on the West, both economically and politically. Last…

Read More “Cambodia More Than Ever Squeezed Between Russia and the West” »

As the General Assembly meets, activists protest for Indigenous rights. Joseph Lee – Published Sep 21, 2022 As the United Nations General Assembly opens this week in New York, Indigenous people are taking to the streets, and waters, of New York to protest for climate justice and call on world leaders to recognize Indigenous rights….

Read More “‘We will all die if we continue like this’: Indigenous people push UN for climate justice” »