During the first month of the virus spreading across the globe, one of the regions that governments and health experts were concerned about was South Asia. The region is home to large slums in places such as India and refugee camps in Bangladesh. Over a million Rohingya refugees are now cramped in hilly terrains of … Read more
PARIS, Sep 4 2020 – New research by the Global Education Monitoring Report at UNESCO shows an increase in the annual funding gap for education in the poorest countries to as much as US$200 billion a year. These findings are published in the new paper, Act Now: Reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the Cost … Read more
Scientists have been warning us about the impacts of plastic pollution for decades. Oct 30 2020 – Ever since the pandemic began this year, countries across the globe have been striving to protect their people from the virus through various preventive measures where protective gear also known as PPE are in high demand. On the … Read more
Cameron Diver is the Deputy Director-General of the . School children in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS NEW CALEDONIA, Dec 9 2020 (IPS) – Climate change and human rights are two key issues in international development and their interaction is increasingly in need of focus at national, regional and … Read more
SYDNEY, Jan 21 2021 (IPS) – Impeachment or no impeachment, Trump is out of the White House. Trump goes with an , far behind his predecessor Barack Obama’s 60%. A majority, 54%, said Trump ought to be removed from office before January 20, according to , for his role in the January 6 events, when … Read more
BEIJING, Mar 2 2021 (IPS) – Five years ago, at the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations, world leaders adopted the ambitious Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The Agenda was to be accomplished through the achievement of 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030: eradicating poverty, ending hunger, addressing climate change – just … Read more
LONDON, Mar 30 2021 – Over the Pandemic months, most activities social, cultural, economic philanthropic have been hit hard. The worst-hit has been patients suffering from serious diseases. Most have shied away from visiting their doctors and referral fell by 52,000 due to Covid-19. However, as they say, life goes on, and in this case, … Read more
The writer is Gender Team Director at UN Development Programme (UNDP) A healthcare worker collects samples for COVID-19 testing at Mimar Sinan State Hospital in Buyukcekmece district, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2020. New numbers reveal that men outnumber women 3-1 in 225 COVID-19 task forces around the world, while 70 percent of the frontline healthcare workers … Read more
A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Antoine-Jean Gros: Napoleon Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa. STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 24 2021 (IPS) – By the end of April 2019, a government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan … Read more
Following bereavement, children experience grief, distress, and other emotional and behavioral difficulties which must be addressed. | Picture courtesy: Vicky Roy/Save the Children-India Aug 9 2021 (IPS) – The second wave of COVID-19 brought with it unimaginable grief, agony, and frustration. India saw a sharp increase in the number of deaths, especially , which meant … Read more