International Women’s Day, 2022 – To Overcome Africa’s Development Crisis, Invest in Strengthening Girls’ Power
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. It was on a...
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International Women’s Day, 2022 – Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow
DUBLIN, Mar 07 (IPS) – Women are already leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Sisters Nina and Helena Gualinga of the Kichwa...
The War in Ukraine and the Spectre of Genocide
STOCKHOLM, Mar 07 (IPS) – Georg Hegel once stated: ”What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned...
The Climate Change Shuffle: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing
PORTLAND, USA, Mar 07 (IPS) – While more than a half century ago the Twist was the craze in dance halls globally, today the...
Russia reduced Genocide Convention ‘to confetti’, Ukraine tells world court
Ukraine addressed the UN’s highest court on Monday to reject as a “grotesque lie” Russia’s claims that genocide has been committed in eastern Ukrainian oblasts, or regions, before calling for emergency measures to halt Russian aggression. Read the full story, “Russia...
Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) – “Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her,” says Hilda Roca, an indigenous...
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is head editor, Landscape News The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International...
Can 70% of the World’s Poor Celebrate International Women’s Day?
MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) – The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. Women around the...
‘Turn the clock forward on women’s rights’: UN chief’s International Women’s Day message
Ahead of International Women’s Day, celebrated on 08 March, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that the world “cannot emerge from the pandemic with...
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