COVID-19 has shown that we need to act fast as changes at the interface of humans, livestock and wildlife are driving increased risk of emerging disease threats across the globe. Credit: Marc-André Boisvert/IPS IBADAN, Nigeria, May 11 2021 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that global health challenges cannot be solved only by…
The world should, with urgency, remove the barriers to education for crisis-affected children with disabilities, says Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif. Here she is pictured in Lebanon speaking to a young child at an ECW-supported facility. Credit: Education Cannot Wait (ECW) NEW YORK, Jun 19 2021 (IPS) – With financing, the number of out-of-school…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 2021 (IPS) – Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich countries have done little to ensure poor countries’ access to vaccines and fiscal resources, North-South “” will certainly widen. Enhancing relief, recovery, transformation While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has rich countries’ recovery prospects…
NEW ORLEANS, United States, Sep 28 2021 (IPS) – The global food system needs a massive overhaul – this was clear before the Covid pandemic and it is even more true today. Feeding the world in a sustainable and healthy way is entirely possible but it is also inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis…
Girls at Malual Agai School in South Sudan are having a lesson about menstrual hygiene. The school is one of the beneficiaries from Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) funded by Education Cannot Wait (ECW). The fund aims to keep girls at school by supporting them and providing them with dignity kits. Credit: ECW Juba, South Sudan,…
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 23 2021 (IPS) – Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the deadly manifestations of the climate crisis, there were few places to hide for most of us in 2021. Ageing billionaires riding booming stock markets could take their first flights into space in their own rockets, but for the rest of Planet Earth’s…
The writer is UN Assistant Secretary General and Director, UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support Gig economy has boosted employment of Indian women in the formal sector. Credit: UNDP India UNITED NATIONS, Mar 1 2022 (IPS) – 2022 is a decisive year for all of us as recovery prospects remain highly uncertain. Global human…
Migrant labourers wait in queues in Kashmir in order to travel back to their homes. The second wave of COVID-19 in India has seen masses of people leave cities and towns to return to their rural homes. Credit: Umer Asif/IPS NEW DELHI, Apr 29 2022 (IPS) – Public health specialists say that an ongoing wrangle…
The authors are Co-Chairs of the IPBES Assessment of the Sustainable Use of Wild Species Salmon fishing. Credit: iStock BONN, Germany, Jun 22 2022 (IPS) – You probably use wild species far more often than you realise. For many people, especially in more developed economies, the use of wild species sounds like something quite removed…
STOCKHOLM, Sep 22 2022 (IPS) – After general elections on the 12th September, Sweden is on the threshold of a new era. The Sweden Democrats (SD) won almost 21 percent of the votes and thus became the largest in a bloc of right-wing parties that now have a collective majority in the parliament. A nation…