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Lawmakers Call on G20 to Prioritise Spending on Youth, Gender, and Human Security
Politics Behind the Removal of Mughal History From Textbooks Say Academics (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ranjit Devraj Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations India IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Wanted: Teachers For Change!
Credit: UNESCO / Teacher Task ForceBy Heike KuhnBONN, Germany, Oct 4 2023 (IPS) Once a year, on October 5, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. Why is it so important to have a closer look on the teaching profession? What is so special about being a teacher nowadays?
World Teachers’ Day is an international day which was established to attract public attention on the work of teachers. The day was established in 1994, in commemora-tion the signing of the “ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers” in 1966, which focused on “appreciating, assessing and improving the ed-ucators of the world” and on ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Heike Kuhn Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Gender Global Headlines Health Labour Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations Education Cannot Wait (ECW) IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Kazakhstan ’ s Transition: From a Nuclear Test Site to Leader in Disarmament
A Group photo of participants of the regional conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear-free-zone in Central Asia held on August 29, 2023. Credit: Jibek Joly TV ChannelBy Katsuhiro Asagiri and Kunsaya Kurmet-RakhimovaASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sep 7 2023 (IPS) Exactly 32 years ago, on September 29, 1991, Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union, made a historic decision that would alter its fate. On that day, Kazakhstan permanently closed the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, defying the central government in Moscow. This marked the start of Kazakhstan’s transformation from a nuclear-armed s...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Katsuhiro Asagiri and Kunsaya Kurmet-Rakhimova Tags: Armed Conflicts Asia-Pacific Conferences Headlines Health Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons Peace TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
The UN ’s Own Relevance Is at Stake at This Year’s General Assembly
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the 22nd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 17 April 17 2023. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty ImagesBy Mandeep S.TiwanaNEW YORK, Sep 7 2023 (IPS) This September, world leaders and public policy advocates from around the world will descend on New York for the UN General Assembly. Alongside conversations on peace and security, global development and climate change, progress – or the lack of it – on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is expected to take centr...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mandeep S.Tiwana Tags: Armed Conflicts Civil Society Climate Change Crime & Justice Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Inequality Peace Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations CIVICUS 2023 IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Digging Africa Deeper into HungerAnnual Green Revolution Forum ignores widespread failure of its push for industrialized agriculture
Women share nutritious diverse local crop varieties at 2022 Djimini seed fair in Senegal. The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is helping rewrite African laws and policies to favor conversion to hybrid and GMO maize seeds. Credit: AFSA or Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)By Timothy A. WiseCAMBRIDGE, MA., Aug 29 2023 (IPS) As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green Revolution Forum, convening September 5-8 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, they are instead handing out new s...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Timothy A. Wise Tags: Africa Armed Conflicts Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Food and Agriculture Food Sustainability Green Economy Headlines TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Regaining Momentum for a Leprosy Free World
WHO Goodwill Ambassador Sasakawa with some of the representatives from persons affected by leprosy organizations that participated in the Bergen International Conference on Hansen’s Disease (June 21–22, 2023).By Yohei SasakawaTOKYO, Japan, Aug 28 2023 (IPS-Partners) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the leprosy bacillus by Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen in Bergen, Norway. To prompt reflection on the past and build momentum for a zero leprosy future, the Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative and the University of Bergen co-hosted an international conference on June 21–22. The conference ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yohei Sasakawa Tags: Health Human Rights Source Type: news
Kenya ’ s Population Growth Decreases as More Women Embrace Modern Family Planning
Pharmacists, like Christine Atieno from Mediway Healthcare and doctors say women and men in Kenya are more open to contraceptive use now. CREDIT: Wilson Odhiambo/IPS By Wilson OdhiamboNAIROBI, Aug 28 2023 (IPS) According to a family planning brief, more than 370 million women in middle and low-income countries were finally embracing modern contraception to help curb unintended pregnancies.
This statistic suggests that one in every three women from middle and low-income countries use contraceptives today.
Africa, which had the lowest number of family planning users in 2012, had registered a 66 percent increase, from 40...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wilson Odhiambo Tags: Africa Development & Aid Education Featured Gender Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Population Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations Women's Health IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Source Type: news
Debt & Crisis of Survival in Sri Lanka & the World
This article is derived from the author’s new book: Asoka Bandarage, CRISIS IN SRI LANKA AND THE WORLD: COLONIAL AND NEOLIBERAL ORIGINS: ECOLOGICAL AND COLLECTIVE ALTERNATIVES (Berlin: De Gruyter,2023) https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111203454/html?lang=en]
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Asoka Bandarage Tags: Armed Conflicts Asia-Pacific Civil Society COVID-19 Economy & Trade Featured Headlines IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Growing Feminization of Migration in Cuba Poses New Challenges
By Luis BrizuelaHAVANA, Aug 25 2023 (IPS) Emigrating from Cuba was an agonizing decision for Ana Iraida. She left behind family and friends; in her backpack she carried many hopes, but also the fear of facing dangers on the journey to the United States.
“My salary and that of my second job, as an editor, were insufficient. I wanted to prosper and help my parents. Nor did I want to have a child in a country where it is an ordeal to buy everything from disposable diapers to soap, not to mention food,” the 33-year-old philologist who, like the others interviewed for this story, asked to withhold her last name, tol...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Luis Brizuela Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Editors' Choice Featured Financial Crisis Gender Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Latin America & the Caribbean Migration & Refugees Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Cat Source Type: news
International Systems Are Key for Ethiopia ’ s Security and Development Amidst Renewed War
There are still tens of thousands of people in need of health services including surgical interventions from the previous war that left almost 600,000 people dead. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPSBy Abdo HusenADDIS ABABA, Aug 23 2023 (IPS) Less than a year since warring parties in Ethiopia signed a peace agreement, the country is on the brink of renewed bloodshed following escalating hostilities between government forces and the Fano militia in the Amhara region.
Government forces accuse the militant group of plotting a coup; while the militia maintain their marginalization in the post-war reconstruction arrangements including th...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Abdo Husen Tags: Africa Armed Conflicts Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Nepal ’ s Covid-19 Immunization Campaign – An Unlikely Frontrunner
Badri Acharya is currently at the helm of the public health office in Pokhara, a prominent city within Nepal’s Himalayan region and a renowned tourist hotspot. However, in the past, he worked in the field, leading and delivering essential public health provisions in the isolated and demanding terrain of the Manang district-some 198 km north […] (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 23, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tanka Dhakal Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change COVID-19 Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Nepal Source Type: news
Vaccine Equality Is as Vital for Livestock as for People
PREVENT project in Tanzania/Iringa, 2021, Helena Kindole. Credit: Colin Dames/CEVABy Enrique Hernández PandoEl Castellar, Spain, Aug 22 2023 (IPS) El Castellar – For 33-year-old mother-of-seven and poultry farmer Helena Kindole in Chanya village in Tanzania, one of the main barriers to growing her chicken business is a lack of access to health services. But not for herself or her family – for her animals.
With smallholder poultry farming often a lifeline for millions of low-income and rural families – accounting for 80% of poultry production in the region – access to medicines and vaccines is just as importan...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Enrique Hernandez Pando Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Food and Agriculture Health Inequality Sustainability TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Unregulated Agrochemicals Harm Health of Rural Residents in Central America
Medardo Pérez, 60, sprays paraquat, a potent herbicide, to kill the weeds growing in his corn crop in the San Isidro canton of the municipality of Santa María Ostuma, in central El Salvador. Most small farmers in Central America use this and other agrochemicals on their crops, just as agribusiness does on monocultures such as bananas, pineapples, coffee and sugar cane. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala / IPSBy Edgardo AyalaSANTA MARÍA OSTUMA, El Salvador , Aug 21 2023 (IPS) In his green cornfield, Salvadoran farmer Medardo Pérez set about filling the hand-held spray pump that hangs on his back, with the right mixture of water and ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Edgardo Ayala Tags: Conservation Development & Aid Editors' Choice Environment Featured Food and Agriculture Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories Agrochemicals Costa Rica El Salvador Glyphosate Guatemala Pesticides Source Type: news
Floods, Now Torrential Monsoon Rains Leave Pakistani Women in Crisis
Women outside an emergency vehicle aimed at helping those affected by flooding. CREDIT: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, PAKISTAN , Aug 18 2023 (IPS) Torrential monsoon rains have left the people, especially women, in crisis as they are still grappling to recover from the last year’s floods in Pakistan.
“We are yet to return to normal lives after devastation caused by severe rains in June 2002 when the new series of rains have started only to further aggravate our problems,” Jannat Bibi, a resident of Kalam in the Swat Valley, told IPS.
Bibi, 44, a housewife, along with co-villagers, must walk about a ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ashfaq Yusufzai Tags: Asia-Pacific Climate Change Development & Aid Environment Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change
Togotia, a forgotten African leafy vegetable, has found its way back into markets as its high nutritional value could help address food security. CREDIT: Egerton UniversityBy Wilson OdhiamboNAIROBI, Aug 16 2023 (IPS) Kenya’s fight for food security may have just gone ‘Old School’ as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way off consumers’ plates.
Their project, dubbed ‘Exploring Potential of Togotia (Erucastrum arabicum), a forgotten African leafy vegetable for nutritional security and climate adaptation in Kenya,’ won the grant in October...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wilson Odhiambo Tags: Africa Development & Aid Featured Food and Agriculture Headlines Health Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Source Type: news
