Dr Leila Fourie, Group CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and Fani Titi, CEO of Investec, are members of the UN Secretary-General’s Alliance. Secretary-General António Guterres poses for a group photo with the members of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance. Credit: Mark Garten / United Nations JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 18 2020 (IPS)…
PRESS RELEASE Jun 8 2020 – The Commonwealth Secretary-General is urging governments to ensure their countries’ post-COVID economic recoveries are environmentally sustainable and safe for the ocean. Forty-seven of the Commonwealth’s 54 member countries have a coastline while 25 are either small island developing states or ‘big ocean states’ relying heavily on the ocean…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 23 2020 (IPS) – Over the course of his presidency, US President Donald Trump’s has become more evident with more leaks of his private remarks, which he has been generally quick to deny, qualify and explain away. Despite his thinly disguised contempt for women, ‘non-white’ ethnic minorities, and most foreigners,…
“Social cohesion is built over years and is the result of policies that allow everybody in society to share in its sustainable prosperity,” Ahunna Eziakonwa, Director – UNDP Africa Women in Nigeria collect food vouchers as part of a programme to support families struggling under the COVID-19 lockdown. Credit: Damilola Onafuwa/WFP UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27…
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON D.C. , Sep 2 2020 (IPS) – On 27 August the that it will suspend the Doing Business Report over data irregularities, until it conducts a review and audit. The halting of the report was welcomed by trade unions, academics and human rights groups. The World Bank’s ranks countries based on…
Reaching remote communities. Credit: UnSplash / Ashwini C. NEW YORK, Oct 26 2020 (IPS) – The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the way people value working from home, career building, and their overall approach to utilising downtime. It has blurred out the lines between hobby, casual reading, and how time is spent away from work. Despite…
Simone Galimberti is Co-Founder of ENGAGE, a not for profit NGO in Nepal, and writes on volunteerism, social inclusion, youth development and regional integration as an engine to improve people’s lives. The UN commemorated International Day of Persons with Disabilities December 3.. In his message for the Day, the Secretary-General noted that when crises…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 2021 (IPS) – Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to…
Nishat Hussain coordinating with local authorities in Rajasthan to ensure relief reaches those most affected by the lockdown. NEW DELHI, India, Mar 1 2021 (IPS) – Women living in rural India and those belonging to marginalised communities faced an enormous burden during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns, including domestic violence, loss of financial assistance and income,…
To Enrique González Rojo (1928-2021), friend, comrade in many struggles, admirable poet, and Marxist thinker MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 2021 (IPS) – A compilation of testimonies collected by Blanca Velázquez Díaz and published by the Ebert Foundation (available at: ) offers an account of the harsh reality by which some workers of the maquila industry…