Global IssuesNews headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 54
Keeping Hope Afloat in a Sea of Uncertainty
- Inter Press Service
ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, Aug 25 (IPS) - “I think I’m making a difference. I’m really helping,” Hanadi tells me, as she reflects on her work in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan.
UN Labour Report Highlights Employment Challenges for Youth
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Aug 24 (IPS) - When COVID-19 prompted economic shutdowns across the globe, many analysts predicted that youth would be especially at risk. This is because young people tend to have fewer economic assets and limited experience in the labor market.
A Stress Test for Nuclear Deterrence
- Inter Press Service
FRANKFURT/BERLIN, Aug 24 (IPS) - This month, the Tenth Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is taking place in New York (and scheduled to conclude August 26). The meeting of states parties, postponed four times because of the Covid-19 pandemic, had originally been scheduled for April 2020.
Funding Urgently Needed for Children’s Education in Conflict Areas—ECW Director
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) - Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) issued a wake-up call for the global community to support efforts on facilitating education in crisis areas. She was speaking at the United Nations at the launch of the global fund's annual report titled We Have Promises to Keep.
Keeping the Promise of Education for Crisis-Impacted Children and Adolescents
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Aug 23 (IPS) - Syrian refugee children are among the most disadvantaged in Iraq. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 53 percent of school-aged Syrian refugee children in the country were enrolled.
Celebrating 30 Years of Shared Water
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 23 (IPS) - We tend to associate rivers and lakes with the countries in which they are located. Yet a little-known fact is that more than half of the world’s freshwater bodies are shared.
Starvation Pounds Inflation-Hit Urban Zimbabweans
- Inter Press Service
Harare, Aug 19 (IPS) - With inflation at 191 percent, 49-year-old Dambudzo Chauruka can no longer afford to buy bread despite working as a civil servant in Zimbabwe.
Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Aug 19 (IPS) - After the horrendous tragedies of 9/11 in the year 2001, the US intervened in Afghanistan. Promising statements such as "we are going to smoke them out" and "we are after ending terrorism" received warm receptions.
Tapping into the Power of Young People for Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
Aug 18 (IPS) - Today, our world is 1.1°C warmer than it was in the pre-industrial era, and failure to act urgently could possibly result in increases of 1.5°C-2°C between 2026 and 2042. Climate change poses a serious risk to the fundamental rights of people of every age.
Global Public Investment: Time to Build the Movement Now
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 17 (IPS) - Global Public Investment. A short and simple phrase. But one that means so much.
At its most basic, GPI means public money being used to invest in goods and services that are of global benefit. There is no shortage of goods and services that need GPI, whether they be used to prevent or respond to environmental catastrophe, international war and conflict, or the next pandemic.
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