JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 11 (IPS) – COVID-19 restrictions exposed women and girls to heightened abuse – revealing the conditions in which gender-based violence...
NEWS
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 10 (IPS) – On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another...
WASHINGTON DC, Mar 10 (IPS) – The three writers are Financial Sector Analysts at the Washington-based Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)*The gender...
Malawian Youth Wipe Away Unemployment Tears with Agribusiness
BLANTYRE, Malawi, Mar 10 (IPS) – After getting tired of searching for employment for seven years, Feston Zale from Chileka area in Malawi’s Southern...
What Africa Expects of New WTO Chief Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) – When on 15 February the chair of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) General Council, Ambassador David Walker of New...
Down in Hell
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 09 (IPS) – I am about 200 feet down a rickety old mine shaft, in the Ashanti gold mining region of...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 09 (IPS) – Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest fiscal resources to pay down...
The Ethics of AI to Ensure Food Security and Development
ROME, Mar 08 (IPS) – One year after the call for a group of international and religious organizations and important multinational companies to incorporate...
Worlds Worst Humanitarian Disaster Triggered by Deadly Weapons from US & UK
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) – The United Nations has rightly described the deaths and devastation in war-ravaged Yemen as the “world’s worst humanitarian...
SEOUL, Republic of Korea, Mar 08 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, March...
Gaza winter aid: ‘No more delay’, Fletcher tells governments stalling on support 
Protecting the Climate Means Protecting Territorial Rights 
I Sustain My Accusation 
‘The War Must Stop’: Nobel Peace Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on the Urgent Need to Protect Ukraine’s Women and Children