Women are always hit hardest by water scarcity as they have to travel longer distances to fetch water, which increases their workload and compromises their ability to perform other essential and livelihood functions. Credit: Pem Norbhu GANGTOK, India, Feb 1 2017 (IPS) – Bina Sharma, a member of the Melli Dhara Gram Panchayat Unit in … Read more
A livestock owner in Yemen tends her goats. Livestock production fell by more than 35 per cent in 2016 compared to the pre-crisis period. Credit: FAO ROME, Apr 28 2017 (IPS) – Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN … Read more
On 9 February 2016 in central Ethiopia, children and women from a semi-pastoralist community wait their turn to fill jerrycans with clean water at a water point in Haro Huba Kebele in Fantale Woreda, in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region. Credit: © UNICEF/UN011590/Ayene UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 2017 (IPS) – More than two billion people … Read more
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) receives the legal instruments for joining the Paris Agreement from Barack Obama, President of the United States, at a special ceremony held in Hangzhou, China. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2 2017 (IPS) – Having faced a year of record temperatures and devastating hurricanes, the United States stands more … Read more
Josefina Salomon is Media Manager at Amnesty International Daniel (not his real name), is a Venezuelan living with HIV. Mexico gave him refugee status, based on a humanitarian cause. Credit: Sergio Ortiz/ Amnistía Internacional MEXICO CITY, Dec 21 2017 (IPS) – As Daniel*, a 26-year-old architect, stood before a visibly exhausted doctor in the main … Read more
Jeannette Urquilla is executive director of , the Salvadoran partner of , an international women’s group. A low middle-income country with half the population below the age of 25, El Salvador suffers from high socioeconomic and gender inequity. Credit: UNFPA SAN SALVADOR, Mar 28 2018 (IPS) – (34) was released from prison earlier this month … Read more
DAVID E. BLOOM is the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, DANIEL CADARETTE is a research assistant, and JP SEVILLA is a research associate, all at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. WASHINGTON DC, Jul 3 2018 (IPS) – Infectious diseases and associated mortality have abated, but they remain a significant … Read more
This article is part of a series of opinion pieces to mark World Food Day October 16 José Graziano da Silva is Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Zolia Morán Tun, from Tucurú, in the department of Alta Verapaz, in Guatemala, implements the piling trays to produce local plants, … Read more
Dr Maria Francia Laxamana, the Assistant Secretary in the Philippines Ministry of Health, eels strongly about the social exclusion and stigma experienced by the leprosy patients and is eager to make a notable change in the way the society perceives leprosy and those who live with it. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS MANILA, Mar 3 2019 (IPS) … Read more
just little bits of history repeating. Propeller Heads: History repeating STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jul 9 2019 (IPS) – The Libyan catastrophe and the suffering of ”illegal” migrants are generally depicted as fairly recent events, though they are actually the results of a long history of greed, contempt for others and fatal shortsightedness. Like former Yugoslavia, … Read more