UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) – When the UN’s high-level meeting of world leaders concluded last week, the head count seemed lopsided: 190 speakers, including 76 Heads of State, 50 Heads of Government, 4 Vice-Presidents, 5 Deputy Prime Ministers, 48 Ministers and 7 Heads of Delegations—overwhelmingly male. Read the full story, “UNs High-Level Meeting of […]
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Annexation of a States Territory is a Violation of the Charter & International Law, Warns UN Chief
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) – The Kremlin has announced that a ceremony will take place Friday in Moscow that will launch a process of annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Read the full story, “Annexation of a States Territory is a Violation of the Charter & International Law, Warns […]
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UNs High-Level Meeting of World Leaders Falls Short of Gender Empowerment
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) – When the UN’s high-level meeting of world leaders concluded last week, the head count seemed lopsided: 190 speakers, including 76 Heads of State, 50 Heads of Government, 4 Vice-Presidents, 5 Deputy Prime Ministers, 48 Ministers and 7 Heads of Delegations—overwhelmingly male. Read the full story, “UNs High-Level Meeting of […]
Annexation of a States Territory is a Violation of the Charter & International Law, Warns UN Chief
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 30 (IPS) – The Kremlin has announced that a ceremony will take place Friday in Moscow that will launch a process of annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Read the full story, “Annexation of a States Territory is a Violation of the Charter & International Law, Warns […]
Johannesburg, Sep 2
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Nepal Government, UN Agency Seek Investors for Latest Cash Crop to Boom in Country’s East
SALAKPUR, Nepal, Sep 29 (IPS) – Two and a half hours’ drive north from Kakarbhitta, Nepal’s eastern-most border crossing with giant neighbour India, lies the hilly hamlet of Salakpur where lives Kaushila Moktan, a famed farmer of large cardamom. Read the full story, “Nepal Government, UN Agency Seek Investors for Latest Cash Crop to Boom […]
Poverty Impacts on Efforts to End Child Marriage, say Parliamentarians
Johannesburg, Sep 29 (IPS) – Child marriage continues to be a scourge in many African countries – despite legislation and efforts of many, including parliamentarians, to keep girls in school and create brighter futures for them. This was the view of participants in a recent webinar held under the auspices of the African Parliamentary Forum […]
CAPE TOWN, South Af
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Hard Hit By Climate Change, Villagers Raise a Forest on Their Own
Sep 28 (IPS) – Some ten years ago, Sheemanto Chatri, a 39-year-old farmer hailing from India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, was reeling with distress. The unseasonal rainfall had washed away all the crops he had cultivated after year-long labor in his far-off hamlet. Read the full story, “Hard Hit By Climate Change, Villagers Raise a […]