Developing Countries COVID-19 Debt Crisis Could Put 2030 Agenda & Paris Agreement Completely Out of Reach
BONN, Germany, Mar 30 (IPS) – The inability of developing nations to spend on post COVID-19 recovery and resilience has placed the world on...
NEWS
In Syria, a Decade of Death, Destruction, Displacement, Disease, Dread & Despair
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 30 (IPS) – The conflict in Syria is now ten years old. A decade of death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 30 (IPS) – COVID-19 has set back the uneven progress of recent decades, directly causing more than two million...
Identities
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 30 (IPS) – I was born in the winter in 1990 in a country not my own i was born...
Why Rehabilitation is as Vital as Rescue for Child Trafficking Survivors
SYDNEY, Australia, Mar 29 (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Babloo’s (Name changed) parents, who worked as daily wage agricultural labourers in the eastern Indian state of...
Arab Region Counts Cost of Devastating COVID-19 Pandemic
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 29 (IPS) – More than eight million people moved onto the poverty line in the Arab region, a conference of...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 29 (IPS) – Nuhara Syeda is with HarvestPlus, which is part of the CGIAR* Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and...
NEW YORK, Mar 29 (IPS) – Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Juan Somavia, Jeffrey Sachs, Jose Antonio Ocampo and more than 100 high-level development experts...
After the Ever Given: What the Ship Wedged in the Suez Canal Means for Global Trade
Mar 26 (IPS) – In the early hours of March 23, the container ship Ever Given was blown off course by high winds on...
MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) – A compilation of testimonies collected by Blanca Velázquez Díaz and published by the Ebert Foundation (available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/mexiko/17328.pdf)...
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it 
Surviving the summer 
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible