News headlines for “Non-governmental Organizations on Development Issues”, page 6

  1. Overlapping Crises Hinder Global Social Development and Poverty Reduction

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 (IPS) - Social development in a global context shows the risk of trending downwards and not recovering if countries do not minimize the long-term impacts of multiple crises and work towards building up their resilience. As much as this will require national political will, it will also need global cooperation for it to be possible.

  2. A Pact for the World’s Poorest

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (IPS) - Last month, world leaders gathered at the time of the UN General Assembly in New York and agreed on a pioneering Pact for the Future. This global accord has implications across a broad range of issues that affect every country. It offers much hope for the poorest and most vulnerable countries on the planet, known as Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

  3. Honduras: Environmental Defenders Still under Siege

    - Inter Press Service

    MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 18 (IPS) - Juan López was gunned down on 14 September. An environmental activist, community leader and member of the Municipal Committee in Defence of the Commons and Public Goods of Tocoa, he was the latest victim of extractive greed in Honduras. Communities protecting the rivers that flow through the Bajo Aguán region have seen several of their leaders assassinated.

  4. What is the World’s Most “Demanding and Impossible Job”?

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (IPS) - When Dr Gamani Corea, a former Secretary-General of the Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was holding court in the delegate's lounge, I asked him what he thought of the bitter dispute between then Secretary-General (SG) Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996) and the United States over the Egyptian's determination to win re-election for a second term.

  5. Empowering Indigenous Communities: A Path to Sustainable and Just Development

    - Inter Press Service

    COLUMBUS, Ohio, USA, Oct 17 (IPS) - In a world where the fight for land rights often pits the powerful against the marginalized, Indigenous communities stand as resilient defenders of their ancestral lands.

  6. Kenya's Mung Bean Legislation Debate Underscores Farmers' Vulnerability

    - Inter Press Service

    KITUI, Kenya, Oct 17 (IPS) - World Food Day 2024

     Kenyan farmers have faced a turbulent year, caught between legislative changes and a devastating scandal. While the country's Mung Bean Bill, aiming to regulate the lucrative mung bean industry, has moved to mediation, farmers are battling the fallout from the widespread distribution of counterfeit fertilizers that have jeopardized their crop yields and livelihoods.

  7. Civil Society Fights Against Budget Cuts Amid Calls for “Aid” Reform

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Oct 16 (IPS) - Sarah Strack is Forus DirectorMultiple conflicts, the climate emergency and other crises are destabilising many parts of the world and intensifying the strain on the resources needed to finance the global sustainable development agenda. Amid these challenges, data from 2023, shows that Official Development Assistance (ODA) reached a record-breaking US$223.7 billionup from US$211 billion the previous year, according to Eurodad.

  8. ‘The new law’s purpose is to increase government control over civil society’

    - Inter Press Service

    Oct 16 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses a recently passed law regulating civil society organisations (CSOs) in Paraguay with Marta Ferrara and Olga Caballero, executive directors of Semillas para la Democracia (Seeds for Democracy) and Alma Cívica (Civic Soul), two of the organisations leading the civil society response to the closing of civic space.

  9. World Told Act Now or Face 136 Years of Hunger, Report Warns

    - Inter Press Service

    BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Oct 15 (IPS) - World Food Day 2024. High levels of hunger will continue for another 136 years in many developing countries, according to a new report assessing global hunger.

  10. ‘We Continue Working to Make Sure Afghan Girls and Women Are Heard and Not Forgotten’

    - Inter Press Service

    Oct 15 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses Afghanistan's system of gender apartheid with Shaharzad Akbar, Executive Director of Rawadari, a human rights organisation founded by Afghans in exile.

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