Throughout her tumultuous childhood, Jinger Duggar often was prohibited from speaking her mind. Her famous parents fiercely guarded their privacy while making public spectacles of their children. The result, for Jinger and her siblings, was a disorienting childhood in which they were frequently asked to smile for the camera while simultaneously concealing dark family secrets. Jinger Duggar participates in a …
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Opinion by Jamal Benomar (new york) Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 25 (IPS) – The Summit of the Future has now ended, but the real and present world is still on fire. As the General Assembly, an annual ritual where dozens of heads of state descend on New York, kicks off, key questions about the role …
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Fawziya Koofi, former Deputy Speaker of Parliament in Afghanistan, addresses reporters following the “The Inclusion of Women in the Future of Afghanistan” meeting. Credit: Mark Garten/UN Photo by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 (IPS) – Women in Afghanistan have continued to advocate for their rights and have called on the international …
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Maria Naeku, a Maasaiwoman in Mikese village in Mvomero district tends to her vegetable garden.Credit: Kizito Makoye Shigela/IPS by Kizito Makoye (mvomero, tanzania) Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Inter Press Service MVOMERO, Tanzania, Sep 24 (IPS) – In the scorching sun of Mikese village in Tanzania’s eastern Mvomero district, 31-year-old Maria Naeku tirelessly tends to her small vegetable patch. Each time she …
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The development comes as the UN’s top official in Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert began an official visit to Israel to meet senior government officials, after insisting that “there is no military solution that will make either side safer”. In Lebanon, it has been reported that people in the south received phone and social media messages on Monday from the Israeli military …
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Dr. Tshilidzi Marwala, USG and Rector of the United Nations University, and Ms. Kaoru Nemeto, Director of the United Nations Information Centre, during a discussion titled ‘Building the Future: Synergetic Collaboration on Nuclear and Climate Crises.’ Credit: Soka Gakkai International by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Monday, September 23, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) – Driving the Summit …
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Opinion by Helen Clark, Surangel S. Whipps Jr. (new york) Monday, September 23, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 23 (IPS) – This week’s United Nations General Assembly marks nearly 20 years since the body first resolved to restrict bottom trawling on the world’s seamounts, submarine mountains that rise thousands of feet above the sea floor and comprise some of …
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UN Photo/Loey Felipe The Summit of the Future Action Days. Sunday, September 22, 2024 UN News World leaders are at UN Headquarters in New York this Sunday where world leaders have just adopted the Pact for the Future by consensus – with a small group of just seven countries holding out, having failed to pass a last-minute amendment. The centrepiece …
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The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, accusing him of war crimes over the invasion of Ukraine. Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, are both wanted by the ICC for unlawfully deporting and transporting Ukrainian children to Russia. The arrest warrants mark the first international charges to be brought …
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Eric Roberts is an iconoclast, both in performance and in his personal life. As the older brother of Academy Award winner Julia Roberts, he watched his sister surpass the prominence of his own acting career and has often been vocal about how her rise would not have come without him having laid a path for her to follow. Now, while …
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