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Partnering for Progress: Maldives' Sustainable Ocean Initiatives
- Inter Press Service
MALE, Maldives, Aug 02 (IPS) - The ocean is our lifeline, covering 70 percent of the earth’s surface, it is the source of half of the oxygen we breathe, and it absorbs 26 percent of the carbon dioxide we produce. It is home to millions of marine species, contains 97 percent of all of the water on our planet and offers humankind immense resources.?
79 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A Grim Reminder of Nuclear Annihilation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 01 (IPS) - The upcoming 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place on August 6 and 9, 1945, remains a grim reminder of the destructive consequences of nuclear weapons.
Cambodia’s Young Environmental Activists Pay a Heavy Price
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Aug 01 (IPS) - It’s risky to try to protect the environment in authoritarian Cambodia. Ten young activists from the Mother Nature environmental group have recently been given long jail sentences. Two were sentenced to eight years on charges of plotting and insulting the king. Another seven were sentenced to six years for plotting, while one, a Spanish national banned from entering Cambodia, was sentenced in absentia.
At Paris Olympics, Art Runs in Tandem with Sports
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 31 (IPS) - As cheers from beach-volleyball fans fill the air at the Eiffel Tower Stadium on a steamy, sunny day, pedestrians just down the road are enjoying another kind of show: an outdoor exhibition of huge photographs gleaming on the metal railings of UNESCO headquarters.
Intl. AIDS Conference: Trans Man Asks Governments to Pressure Uganda to Repeal Punitive Anti LGBT+ Law
- Inter Press Service
MUNICH, Jul 31 (IPS) - Jay Mulucha, Executive Director of FEM Alliance Uganda, gave an impassioned plea to governments around the world to push lawmakers in his home country to reverse punitive new legislation criminalizing the LGBT+ community.
SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE: The UN Secretary-General Underestimated the Difficulty of Reaching Consensus
- Inter Press Service
Jul 30 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the upcoming Summit of the Future with Renzo Pomi, who represents Amnesty International at the United Nations (UN) in New York.
Paraguay: ‘Bureaucratic Criminalisation’, New Legislation Threatens NGOs and Democracy
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay, Jul 29 (IPS) - In a move that has aroused national and international concern, the Paraguayan Senate has given preliminary approval to a controversial bill that imposes strict controls on NGOs in a case of ‘bureaucratic criminalisation’.
Building Tomorrow Today
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 29 (IPS) - Around the world, young people are driving change to ensure our youngest learners get the best start in life.
In rural Kenya, Aisha, a young female entrepreneur trained through a UNICEF-supported programme, has started her own Early Childhood Education (ECE) centre. This centre provides quality early learning to over 50 children and creates jobs for other young women as teachers and support staff.
Government Indifferent to Invasion of Drug Traffickers in the Peruvian Amazon
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jul 26 (IPS) - The invasion of lands inhabited by Amazon indigenous communities is growing in Peru, due to drug trafficking mafias that are expanding coca crops to produce and export cocaine, while deforestation and insecurity for the native populations and their advocates are increasing
Eswatini: Jailing of Politicians the Latest Act of Repression
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jul 26 (IPS) - Two politicians have just been sentenced to long prison terms in Eswatini. Their crime? Calling for democracy.
Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza, both members of parliament (MP) at the time, were arrested in July 2021 for taking part in a wave of pro-democracy protests that swept the southern African country. A third MP, Mduduzi Simelane, remains subject to an arrest warrant after going into hiding.
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