Belarus Crackdown Leaves Human Rights, Minorities Exposed
WEBBRATISLAVA, Sep 6 2021 (IPS) - There will soon be no one left to defend human rights or help minorities in Belarus as the country’s third sector moves closer to “complete liquidation”, international rights groups have warned. Belarus’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, has stepped up his regime’s crackdown on any potential opposition in recent weeks, ordering the closure ...
Central Asia Has Always Been Important for Europe
WEBBRUSSELS, Sep 3 2019 (IPS) - The EU has presented a new strategy for Central Asia. The first one has been adopted in 2007 and revised in 2015. Where do you see improvements? Our new Strategy will aim to focus future EU action in the region on two key priorities.
Q&A: UN Environment Assembly Kicks Off With a Call for the …
WEBFeb 22, 2021 — Its time for the world to radically change our ways if we are to make peace with the planet and create the environmental conditions so that all of humanity can thrive, delegates attending the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) heard this morning.
Bangladesh faces a challenge to ensure welfare of its aging …
WEBFeb 22, 2019 — This report is produced by UNB United News of Bangladesh and IPS Inter Press Service.. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 22 2019 - (IPS/UNB) – Bangladesh economy’s impressive growth trajectory over the last decade has been buttressed by the demographic dividend resulting from a large portion of its population — around 65 percent on average — being of working age.
Kenya: The troubles of a science PhD from the West
WEBNAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 27 2019 (IPS) - Graduate students of the London School of Economics and Political Science gathered at Kenya’s coast in September 2018, where the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Dr Mukhisa Kituyi told them: “With your international credibility, it is easier and tempting to leave and take out of the continent the little ...
Population and security - Inter Press Service
WEBOct 24, 2018 — Population and security. Oct 24 2018 - Population explosion, though missing from the country’s policy discourse, presents one of the most serious threats to our national security. There may not be a simple causal relationship between demography and security, but evidence shows that high population growth is a major destabilising factor in the ...
Paraguay Moves Towards Sustainable Commodities
WEBJul 2, 2019 — Paraguay Moves Towards Sustainable Commodities. Silvia Morimoto is UNDP Resident Representative in Paraguay. ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jul 2 2019 (IPS) - The statistics are alarming. By 2050, the world will require an estimated 60 percent growth in agricultural production to meet the food demand of a population of close to 9 billion people.
Cross-country Differences in Income Inequality - Inter Press Service
WEBSep 1 2016 - In recent years, there has been a growing interest among general people, researchers and policymakers in income inequality, its causes, and its effects. The most popular index of income inequality is the ‘Gini index’, which measures the inequality among levels of income of the people of any country.
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United Nations Still Popular in Most Countries
WEBWASHINGTON, Sep 18 2013 (IPS) - On the eve of the 68 th session of the United Nations General Assembly, a newly released survey of 39 countries shows that the world body remains relatively popular around the globe. According to the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project (GAP), clear majorities of respondents in 22 of the surveyed countries said they hold a favourable view of the U.N ...