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Internet disruptions in Pakistan have become a freedom of expression issue. Credit: Usman Yousaf/Unsplash by Annam Lodhi (islamabad) Wednesday, October 09, 2024 Inter Press Service ISLAMABAD, Oct 09 (IPS) – Over the past few months, Pakistan has been grappling with a persistent and disruptive internet slowdown, leaving millions of citizens frustrated. The disruptions are said to continue until the end of …

Edward Mukiibi, President, Slow Food. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (turin, italy) Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Inter Press Service TURIN, Italy, Oct 08 (IPS) – Edward Mukiibi, President of Slow Food, champions agroecology as a transformative answer to the world’s most pressing crises: food insecurity, climate change, and violent conflicts. In a world where these challenges intersect, Mukiibi called for …

September 26th marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Credit: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Darren Ornitz Opinion by Tariq Rauf (vienna, austria) Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Inter Press Service VIENNA, Austria, Oct 08 (IPS) – In recent years, the rhetoric, strategy and practice of nuclear deterrence has grown riskier, more urgent, more dangerous, less stable, …

The impact of an airstrike in Gaza that has reduced the Prep Boys A School in Khan Yunis to rubble. Credit: UNICEF/ FPF Geneva by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 08 (IPS) – Over the past two months, the polio epidemic in Gaza has slowly mitigated due to response efforts by the …

According to many Republicans, America’s low birth rate and the resulting civilization crisis with its disastrous consequences for the country can squarely be blamed on America’s women in the child-bearing ages. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, October 07, 2024 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Oct 07 (IPS) – Countries around the world are experiencing low birth rates. In 2022, …

Biogas is a champion of sustainability, offering clean, renewable energy and helping to solve the organic waste problem by transforming it into biofuels, says Alex Enrich-Prast, a professor at universities in Brazil and Sweden. Credit: Mario Osava / IPS by Mario Osava (rio de janeiro) Monday, October 07, 2024 Inter Press Service RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) – “I don’t …

According to the Lebanese health ministry over 2,000 Lebanese have been killed and nearly 10,000 wounded since the start of Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza a year ago. Israel intensified its bombing campaign across the whole of Lebanon following the killing of Hezbollah’s leader last month, and Iran’s ballistic missile assault on Israeli cities, in a bid to allow …

That day was in November 2023, around a month into the war in Gaza. Ala’a is among an estimated 155,000 pregnant women and new mothers in the Gaza Strip who for the past year have been forced to give birth under fire, in tents, while fleeing bombs and often without assistance, medication or even clean water. “The sound of the …

The horrific attack by Gaza-based militants also saw more than 250 abducted, including many women and children. “It is time for the release of the hostages. Time to silence the guns. Time to stop the suffering that has engulfed the region,” said António Guterres, calling for peace, the restoration of international law and justice for all victims and survivors. ‘Scarred …

Opinion by Yasmine Sherif (new york) Saturday, October 05, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Oct 05 (IPS) – We must build a new social contract for education – a contract based on equality, equity, and universal human rights. At the center of our global efforts to ensure education for all, we must put teachers first in everything we do. They …