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...
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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...
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...
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is head editor, Landscape News The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International...
‘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...
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>Gender Blind Spots in the Water Sector
HAMILTON, Ontario, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. UN Women estimates...
GENEVA, Mar 07 (IPS) – Russia’s brutal and devastating invasion of Ukraine has triggered the largest and fastest refugee movement in Europe since World...
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>War, Want, Weather and Wellbeing: Where Are We Now?
Read the full story, “<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>War, Want, Weather and Wellbeing: Where Are We Now?”, on globalissues.org →
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