Tag Archives: Global

Anne Olhoff, Chief Climate Advisor at UNEP by Umar Manzoor Shah (copenhagen & srinagar) Thursday, October 24, 2024 Inter Press Service COPENHAGEN & SRINAGAR, Oct 24 (IPS) – Anne Olhoff, Chief Climate Advisor at UNEP, underlined the urgent need for accelerated climate action ahead of COP29 in an exclusive interview with IPS. “The next six years are crucial—without accelerated action, we will …

Melek Zahine Opinion by Melek Zahine (paris) Thursday, October 24, 2024 Inter Press Service PARIS, Oct 24 (IPS) – Nobody should be fooled by President Biden’s recent warning to Israel that the U.S. may level consequences if it doesn’t do more to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza within the next 30 days. Biden’s warning, along with Anthony Blinken’s 11th trip to …

by Oritro Karim Thursday, October 24, 2024 Inter Press Service Oct 24 (IPS) – Attacks on Lebanon over the past two months, as instigated by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been increasingly indiscriminate. The Disaster Risk Management Unit at the Lebanese Council of Ministers confirmed that the death toll of Lebanese civilians has risen to over 2,530. Furthermore, Israel’s …

Delegates from the Forum of Arab Parliamentarians on Population and Development and the Asian Population and Development Association met in Cairo to discuss support for people with disabilities and the elderly. Credit: APDA by Hisham Allam (cairo) Thursday, October 24, 2024 Inter Press Service CAIRO, Oct 24 (IPS) – In a significant move to address the challenges faced by people with …

Samah Al-Ibrahim is unable to provide milk for her child. Babies born to internally displaced families in the camps in the northern countryside of Idlib are desperate for a regular supply of food and milk supplements for their children. Credit: Sonia al-Ali/IPS by Sonia Al Ali (idlib, syria) Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Inter Press Service IDLIB, Syria, Oct 23 (IPS) – …

Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct 23 (IPS) – Bronisław Malinowski (1884 – 1942) did for several years conduct socio-anthropological research in the Trobriand Islands. Returning to England after World War I, he wrote several ground breaking books, among them Magic, Science, and Religion in which he assumed that people’s feelings …

Michael C. Horowitz / Foreign Affairs: How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems  —  Technology Is Remaking War—and America Must Adapt  —  At the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022 …

The scientific journal “Journal of the Institute for African studies” – is the only periodical in Russia, entirely devoted to the problems of African countries – and it publishes articles and other materials on international relations, political, economic and social processes occurring in the African continent, its history and cultural anthropology. Opinion by Kester Kenn Klomegah (moscow) Tuesday, October 22, 2024 …

A mother sits with 3 children in a displacement shelter in Léogâne, Haiti. Credit: UNICEF/Maxime Le Lijour by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) – On October 19, the United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously voted to expand an arms embargo in an effort to combat the high levels of gang …

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Tuesday, October 22, 2024 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 22 (IPS) – New institutional economics (NIE) has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity and democracy. Jomo Kwame SundaramDaron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (AJR) are well known …