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…
Pope Francis and Yohei Sasakawa, Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination led a global appeal to end leprosy and the stigmatization of those impacted. The pope’s statement was read to the second international symposium on Hansen’s Disease in Rome hosted by the Holy See, Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative, the French Raoul Follereau Fondation and the…
Nneka Henry is Head of UN Road Safety Fund An aerial photograph of a busy roundabout in Lusaka Zambia. Credit: UNRSF. GENEVA, Apr 27 2023 (IPS) – Crises may be a centuries-old phenomenon, but so too is human resilience. The high number of road deaths and life-changing injuries in the global south is a crisis…
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 2022 (IPS) – Central banks (CBs) around the world – led by the US Fed, European Central Bank and Bank of England – are raising interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation. The ensuing race to the bottom is hastening world economic recession. Going for broke New UK Prime Minister…
H.E. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera is President of Malawi Vainesi, a former trachoma trichiasis patient, cheers in celebration knowing that trachoma has been eliminated in Malawi. Vainesi had suffered with the pain caused by trachoma for 10 years before a local disability mobiliser encouraged her to go to the hospital for treatment. LILONGWE, Jan 30 2023…
Dr. Daisaku Ikeda. Credit: Seikyo Shimbun TOKYO, Japan, May 8 2023 (IPS) – The Ukraine crisis, which in addition to bringing devastation to the people of that country has had severe impacts on a global scale—even giving rise to the specter of nuclear weapons use—has entered its second year. Against this backdrop and amid urgent…