Global IssuesNews headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 24
Gaza Health Workers Struggling to Save Injured Without Medical Supplies, WHO Expert Warns
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 (IPS) - Gaza’s healthcare system is “on its knees” as ongoing hostilities force hospitals to operate beyond their capacity and displace their healthcare workers, according to a WHO expert.
Trapped and Trafficked - Fishers Tell of Forced Labor Horror
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Jan 19 (IPS) - “The thing is that when you come from an African country, they know that you’re basically trapped,” says Noel Adabblah.
Humanitarian Cash Not Accelerating Aid Delivery in Nepal's Earthquake Response
- Inter Press Service
JAJARKOT DISTRICT, Nepal, Jan 16 (IPS) - Delivering humanitarian assistance in the form of cash sounds great: recipients get to choose exactly how to spend their money and aid organizations can respond faster and better track their giving.
New Era: Unlocking Africa's Agriculture Potential Through CGIAR TAAT Model
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 16 (IPS) - As hunger and food insecurity deepen, Africa is confronting an unprecedented food crisis. Estimates show that nearly 282 million people on the continent, or 20 percent of the population, are undernourished. Numerous challenges across the African continent threaten the race to achieve food security; research and innovative strategies are urgently needed to transform current systems as they are inadequate to address the food crisis.
With Attack on Yemen, the U.S. Is Shameless: We Make the Rules, We Break the Rules
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jan 15 (IPS) - Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”?
It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously. Overall, the default assumption is that top officials in Washington are reluctant to go to war, and do so only as a last resort.
South Africa's Genocide Case Flawed, Premature, Inaccurate, says Israel
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 12 (IPS) - Israel disputed both South Africa’s jurisdiction and the provisional measures that it demanded the International Court of Justice impose on the State of Israel to prevent genocide.
Advanced Economies Must Let the IMF Play a Productive Role on Climate
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 12 (IPS) - The world faces the existential threat of a climate change crisis, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the outcome of the latest UN climate summit, COP28 — hosted as it was by the CEO of one of the world’s largest oil companies, and filled with a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists — is not going to do much to change that.
Palestine: Nothing Can Justify Genocide, It's Not the Time for Silence
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBurg, Jan 11 (IPS) - Far from the mayhem, destruction, and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the South African government argued in the International Court of Justice in the Hague that it had an obligation and a right to bring a case to halt a genocide by the Israeli government and its military.
South Africas Genocide Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Jan 11 (IPS) - The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) published the following Q&A with human rights attorney and political analyst Diana Buttu on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice ICJ). The court is scheduled to hold hearings on the petition January 11-12.
Where Does the International Criminal Court Stand on Charges of Mass Killings in Gaza?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (IPS) - The continued devastation of Gaza by Israel has triggered widespread charges of war crimes, genocide, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, starvation as a weapon of war and mass killings of civilians – over 22,000 at last count—compared to 1,200 killings by Hamas.
These accusations have prompted growing demands for intervention by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, which has remained silent while its Prosecutor Karim Khan is accused of double standards and playing politics.
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