Pune, Oct 19 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Priti Pyne was returning from school in Basra village in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, when she and a friend came across a cold-drink seller selling an attractive-looking drink. The moment the girls sipped it, however, they felt dizzy. When they woke up, it was on a Delhi-bound train […]
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Accelerating Post-Pandemic SDG 6 Achievements on Water & Sanitation
HAMILTON, Canada, Oct 20 (IPS) – Global progress has been staggeringly inadequate against Sustainable Development Goal 6, “clean water and sanitation for all.” According to the latest SDGs progress assessment, 2 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water, 3.6 billion lack sanitation services, and 3 billion lack basic hygiene services. Read the full story, […]
Pune, Oct 19 (IPS)
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Time is Running Out for Decisions on Debt Relief as Countries Face Escalating Development Crisis
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 (IPS) – Developing low- and middle-income economies are taking hard hits from global economic developments outside their control. Monetary tightening in advanced economies coupled with increasing fears of a global recession have weakened currencies, sent interest rates soaring, and investors fleeing. Read the full story, “Time is Running Out for Decisions […]
Government Indifference Deprives the Trafficked of Compensation
Pune, Oct 19 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Priti Pyne was returning from school in Basra village in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, when she and a friend came across a cold-drink seller selling an attractive-looking drink. The moment the girls sipped it, however, they felt dizzy. When they woke up, it was on a Delhi-bound train […]
UNITED NATIONS, Oct
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Time to get off the couch, WHO warns, as 500 million risk developing chronic illness
Almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical inactivity, between 2020 and 2030, if governments worldwide don’t take urgent action to promote the benefits of exercise, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Time to get off the couch, WHO […]
Time is Running Out for Decisions on Debt Relief as Countries Face Escalating Development Crisis
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 (IPS) – Developing low- and middle-income economies are taking hard hits from global economic developments outside their control. Monetary tightening in advanced economies coupled with increasing fears of a global recession have weakened currencies, sent interest rates soaring, and investors fleeing. Read the full story, “Time is Running Out for Decisions […]
VIENTIANE, Laos, Oc
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Are Climate Summits a Waste of Time?
NEW YORK, Oct 18 (IPS) – Next month, the latest annual United Nations climate extravaganza, COP27, will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Last year it was in Glasgow. Next year it will be held in (drum roll please) … Dubai! Read the full story, “Are Climate Summits a Waste of Time?”, on globalissues.org → […]