News headlines in May 2019, page 6
“We Move from Job to Job and Earn from Feast to Famine”
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, May 10 (IPS) - The fast-growing motion picture industry of South Africa is aiming for the stars. But the boom has a flipside. The South African Guild of Actors (SAGA) is fighting against precarious working conditions, being shut out of social security systems, and unfair copyright laws. This, and the legacy of apartheid.
An Urgent Need to Advance Peace
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, May 10 (IPS) - Dr Marina Caparini is a Senior Researcher and Director of the Governance and Society Programme at SIPRI. Her research focuses on peacebuilding and the nexus between security and development.
Let us be blunt: the world is in crisis. Peace, human rights, our planetary ecosystem, and our systems of conflict management and global governance are under enormous strain.
As Fathers Die, Kashmir's Children Become Breadwinners
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India-administered Jammu and Kashmir, May 09 (IPS) - This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
Mubeen Ahmad was nine years old when his mother sold him into service to a mechanic for the petty sum of few thousand Indian rupees. His mother had found it hard to support the family after his father, a labourer, was killed during one of the anti-India protests in Jammu and Kashmir in 2008.
Aid Organisations Welcome New Development Chief
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 09 (IPS) - Roger Hamilton-Martin is a free lance journalist based in London
International aid organisations have reacted positively to the appointment of new UK International Secretary of State for Development, Rory Stewart.
Is UAE Leading the Way for Concentrated Solar Power in GCC?
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 09 (IPS) - Sania Aziz Rahman is a data journalist doing a fellowship with Climate Tracker
In April 2019, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published a report on a "roadmap to 2050" in terms of renewable energy.
From Sanctioning Iran to War?
- Inter Press Service
DENVER, May 08 (IPS) - With the recent military moves announced uncharacteristically by the White House first, the world is witnessing with grim fascination what could turn out to be the early moves towards a war against Iran. How plausible is this scenario and what is likely to happen geopolitically if and when the US belligerence leads to an actual military confrontation with Iran?
Campaign to Whitewash Saudi Arabia’s Image Does Little for Women in the Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 08 (IPS) - Uma Mishra-Newbery is the Interim Executive Director of Women's March Global, which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition & Kristina Stockwood works with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition.
Amid a high-profile public relations campaign to convince the world just how much the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is modernising – highlighted in last year's lifting of the ban on women driving – Saudi authorities continue their relentless persecution of women human rights defenders.
US Withdrawal From Iran Nuclear Deal: One Year On
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, May 08 (IPS) - Dan Smith is Director at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
On 8 May last year, US President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States would pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which sets limits on Iran's nuclear programme to ensure that it cannot produce nuclear weapons.
Leaving No One Behind: Young People’s Participation at UN
- Inter Press Service
GABARONE, Botswana, May 08 (IPS) - Dumiso Gatsha* is a human rights defender, feminist and part-time PhD (Law) candidate.
Walking down 44th street towards UNICEF House was a poignant moment for me: having sought out resources, gone through strenuous immigration processes and having had my assumptions unraveled with the realities of New York City (NYC). This was it.
Neoliberal Reforms Strengthening Monopoly Power and Abuses
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, May 07 (IPS) - Over the last four decades, growing concentration of market power in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies, has been greatly enabled by ostensibly neo-liberal reforms, worsening wealth concentration and gross inequalities in the world.