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As Latin America Looks to a COVID Recovery, It Will Need to Tackle its Growing Middle-Class Angst
The confinement policies put in place to address COVID have discouraged mass political gatherings, but the factors that drove the social unrest of 2019 remain ...
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2020
By External SourceAug 7 2020 (IPS-Partners) Indigenous Peoples are culturally distinct societies and communities. There are approximately 476 million Indigenous Peoples worldwide, in over 90 ...
28 Organizations Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Credit: Food TankBy Danielle NierenbergAug 7 2020 (IPS) These 28 organizations are preserving Indigenous food systems and promoting Indigenous food sovereignty through the rematriation of ...
Anger and Sadness in Beirut
By Eliane EidBEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug 7 2020 (IPS-Partners) Eliane Eid, IPS correspondent in Beirut spoke to a cross section of people who shared their views ...
COVID-19 – Some 23.8 Million More Children Will Drop out of School
According to the United Nations, some 23.8 million additional children and youth (from pre-primary to tertiary) may drop out or not have access to school ...
Multilateral Bank Intermediation Must Help Developing Countries’ Recovery
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 2020 (IPS) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has warned that ...
Empowering Women in a Digitally Equipped, yet Challenging World: A Story of Engagement
World in her hands: Fuzia believes that supporting women in the digital field results in empowerment. Credit: Unsplash / Ben W.By Fairuz AhmedNEW YORK, Aug ...
75 Years after the Bomb, Hiroshima Still Chooses ‘Reconciliation and Hope’
There was widespread destruction in Hiroshima as a result of the nuclear bomb which was dropped on the Japanese city in August 1945. Credi: UN ...
Will There Also Be a Post-Journalism?
A teenage girl covers her face with her hands in front of a laptop computer, frightened by the news she reads about the pandemic. Photo: ...
UNESCO United Against Racism Message Rallies Leading Personalities to Fight Against Racial Discrimination
By UNESCOAug 6 2020 (IPS-Partners) Leading personalities from all over the world have joined UNESCO in denouncing mounting racial discrimination in an advocacy video, United ...
Beirut On its Knees
By Eliane EidBEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug 6 2020 (IPS-Partners) Following the massive explosion in Beirut on Aug. 4, IPS correspondent Eliane Eid reports that the residents ...
Biodiversity Loss Could be Making Us Sick – Here’s Why
Children need diverse microbiomes in their environment to develop healthy immune systems. Credit: Josh Calabrese on Unsplash.By External SourceAug 5 2020 (IPS) By 2050, 70% ...
Mental Health and COVID-19 in India
The COVID-19 response must address mental health alongside containment of the pandemic itself. Credit: Unsplash /Melanie Wasser. By Madhumitha Balaji and Vikram PatelAug 5 2020 ...
Bangladesh Deals with Triple Disasters of Flooding, Coronavirus and Lost Livelihoods
Manju Begum, 85, stands in front of her flooded house in Medeni Mandal in Munshiganj District, central Bangladesh. She says she has not received any ...
The UN General Assembly: A 75-Year Journey Towards the Future We Want
H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, visits a school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 10 February 2020 ...
Make a Fool of Yourself in the Third Act
King Felipe VI of Spain and his father king emeritus Juan Carlos. Credit: Palacio de la Zarzuela. By Joaquín RoyMIAMI, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) Long ...
The New Poor Post-pandemic: Time for Cushioning the Most Vulnerable in Southeast Asia
Credit: Unsplash / Lynda Hinton By Kaveh Zahedi and Van NguyenBANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) After decades of impressive growth, for the first time, ...
Clean Cooking Transition: Pathways as Seen by Kenyan Villagers
Credit: Fiona Lambe / SEI.By Eco MatserAMSTERDAM, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) The Sustainable Development goals on energy speak clear: universal access energy and clean cooking ...
Religion & the Pandemic: A Call Beyond the Here & Now
Religions for Peace Interreligious Council of Albania distributing Covid relief supplies from the Multi-religious Humanitarian Fund. Credit: Erzen CarjaBy Prof. Azza KaramNEW YORK, Aug 4 ...
Address Malnutrition with Food Insecurity
By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 4 2020 (IPS) The 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, issued by the Food ...
