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...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. Women around the...
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...
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is head editor, Landscape News The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International...
Some deep-sea octopuses aren’t the long-haul moms scientists thought they were
Octopuses living in the deep sea off the coast of California are breeding far faster than expected. The animals lay their eggs near geothermal...
This newfound tarantula is the first known to make its home in bamboo
Meet “bambootula.” This newfound tarantula gets its nickname from the tall, stiff-shafted grass in which it makes a home in northern Thailand. Taksinus bambus,...
‘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...
<em>International Womens Day, 2022</em><br>To be Just, the Energy Transition Must Include & Empower Women
PANAMA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is Climate Change and Energy Policy Advisor, UNDP, Panama The following opinion piece is part...
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) – The overwhelming condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine—which triggered a veto from Russia and an abstention from China...
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