South African Court Rules that Clean Air Is a Constitutional Right: What Needs to Change
PRETORIA, Mar 23 (IPS) – A court in South Africa has confirmed the constitutional right of the country’s citizens to an environment that isn’t...
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First Person: Coping with Ukraine’s health crisis
Jarno Habicht has worked with WHO for the last 19 years and served as WHO Representative in Ukraine since 2018. He explains how WHO...
NEW YORK, Mar 23 (IPS) – This week, exactly 20 years ago, world leaders adopted the United Nation’s Monterrey Consensus. They committed to “Confronting...
Women and girls deserve to live without violence in ‘safety, dignity and freedom’
Violence against women and girls may be the world’s “longest, deadliest pandemic,” the UN chief said on Tuesday, during an event focused on the...
Speakers in the Security Council on Tuesday denounced evictions and demolitions by Israeli authorities of Palestinian-owned properties, as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process,...
Haiti: UN agencies warn of ‘unabated’ rise in hunger
While humanitarian assistance has been successful in averting a catastrophe, Haiti is experiencing a persistent rise in hunger levels, with many citizens suffering acutely,...
War on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage
MADRID, Mar 22 (IPS) – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population – somewhere in the order of...
Groundwater at the Heart of the Water Security Equation
PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 22 (IPS) – Eng. James Sauramba is Executive Director of the SADC Groundwater Management Institute. Groundwater is invisible and yet its...
Eradicating Polio Would Eradicate So Much Tragedy
BRAZZAVILLE, Mar 22 (IPS) – Dr Matshidiso Moeti is the World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa.In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just...
Stagflation Threat: Be Pragmatic, Not Dogmatic
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 22 (IPS) – “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”. Still haunted by...
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