Seayeen Aum promotes ecotourism in the remote province of Ratanakiri, in Cambodia’s northeast. Credit: Kris Janssens/ IPS by Kris Janssens (phnom penh) Friday, June 28, 2024 Inter Press Service PHNOM PENH, Jun 28 (IPS) – Modernity is arriving rapidly in Cambodia, observes journalist Kris Janssens (48), who has lived and worked in the country since 2016. The predominantly young population is …
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Surjeet Kumari and her husband, Pardeep Kumar, in their barn. Surjeet has started a mushroom business, which has helped the family weather various storms, including COVID and climate change. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS by Umar Manzoor Shah (r.s. pora, india) Friday, June 28, 2024 Inter Press Service R.S. PORA, India, Jun 28 (IPS) – Smelling the toxic smoke coming from burned …
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Credit: Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Thursday, June 27, 2024 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 27 (IPS) – At the height of 2024 Pride season, decades of civil society campaigning came to fruition in Thailand. With 130 votes for and only four against, on 18 June the Senate passed the Marriage Equality Bill. …
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Organisations fighting inequality and hunger, such as the Oxfam coalition, support calls for the world’s rich to be taxed more fairly. A new study, sponsored by Brazil, will be the basis for debating the issue among the world’s most powerful economies. Credit: Oxfam by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Thursday, June 27, 2024 Inter Press Service CARACAS, Jun 27 (IPS) – A global …
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Credit: Christopher V Photography/iStock via Getty Images. IMF Opinion by Emilio Fernandez-Corugedo – Pamela Madrid – Frank Fuentes (washington dc) Thursday, June 27, 2024 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Jun 27 (IPS) – The Dominican Republic leads Latin America in GDP growth, with an average annual rate of around 5 percent per year since the 1970s. The Caribbean nation has made …
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Destruction in northern Gaza. Credit: UNRWA Opinion by James E. Jennings (atlanta, georgia) Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Inter Press Service ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 26 (IPS) – There have been many genocides throughout history, but the first to be displayed on TV in all its sickening horror before the entire world is the Israeli genocide against the civilians of Gaza. Truth is …
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Organizers decided to cancel physical Pride events this year for fear of a repeat of violence that marred the 2023 event when far-right groups attacked festival goers. The organizers and Georgia’s president said anti-LGBT hate speech from government officials had incited violence ahead of the event in Tbilisi. by Ed Holt (bratislava) Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jun …
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Women from Odisha’s indigenous communities joke and laugh as they sell and barter vegetable, greens, herbs and tubers they grow on the hill slopes of their villages. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS by Manipadma Jena (shillong & bhubaneswar, india) Tuesday, June 25, 2024 Inter Press Service A group of devoted indigenous biodiversity warriors is now reviving indigenous food systems that withstood numerous devastating …
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Play video content Instagram / @ariesspears Comedian Aries Spears is urging Black men to drop any preconceived, homophobic notions about colonoscopies, and get the potentially lifesaving procedure done … just like he did. The “MADtv” alum posted an update Tuesday from his hospital bed, and revealed doctors found 2 polyps during his colonoscopy. In his caption, Aries admitted he was …
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CIVICUS interviews Tuesday, June 25, 2024 Inter Press Service The recent European elections saw significant advances by far-right parties in some but all European Union (EU) countries. They made gains in countries including Austria, Germany and France, where an early parliamentary election has been called as a consequence. In other countries, however, far-right parties stood still or lost support, while …
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