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Author Archives: soshow
Eight International Development Priorities for the new UK Prime Minister
BRIGHTON, UK, Sep 06 (IPS) – The UK’s new Prime Minister (and former Foreign Secretary), Liz Truss, enters Downing Street with a full and urgent in-tray, dominated by the highest inflation rate for 40 years and concerns across the country about the cost-of-living crisis. Read the full story, “Eight International Development Priorities for the new […]
Pakistans Climate Catastrophe: Lessons for the World
HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) – Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening. A distinguishing feature of this disaster is that no one blames the flooding’s unprecedented intensity and destructiveness on anything but climate heating. The clear link between the warming atmosphere and the frequency and duration […]
BANGKOK, Thailand,
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Somalia receiving unprecedented levels of food aid, with ‘famine at the door’
As UN relief chief Martin Griffiths warned of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe on Monday, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it is delivering more food aid to Somalia than ever before. Read the full story, “Somalia receiving unprecedented levels of food aid, with ‘famine at the door’”, on globalissues.org → find more fun & […]
The Right Policies Can Protect the Workers of Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Sep 05 (IPS) – Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and ensure that the rights and aspirations of these workers […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal, S
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Biomethane, the Energy that Cleans Garbage in Brazil
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Sep 05 (IPS) – The increasing productivity with which humankind generates waste has gained at least one sustainable counterpart: the extraction of biogas from landfills, a growing activity in Brazil. Read the full story, “Biomethane, the Energy that Cleans Garbage in Brazil”, on globalissues.org → find more fun & mates at SoShow now […]
A Plea for the Creation of a UN Youth Assembly
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 05 (IPS) – There are many ways the UN can have a sizeable role in promoting the engagement and participation of youth and helping them becoming a central pillar of a new way of doing policy-making. Read the full story, “A Plea for the Creation of a UN Youth Assembly”, on globalissues.org […]
The UN Office
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