Global IssuesNews headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 56
To End AIDS, We Need to End Punitive Laws Perpetuating the Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Aug 02 (IPS) - This week, the global HIV response community is gathering in Montreal to address the crisis of stalling progress that is putting millions of people in danger.
The World Was Already Broken. Will Ukrainian Cereals Fix It?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jul 28 (IPS) - A wide majority, including the United States, has cheered the 22 July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resumen cereals and fertilisers exports from both countries.
Surviving the Food Crisis in North-east Nigeria
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Nigeria, Jul 28 (IPS) - Today in north-east Nigeria, millions of people are facing the painful consequences of a deteriorating food security and nutrition crisis. Food insecurity means not knowing when or where your next meal will come from.
An Integrated Regional Response for the Sahel Crisis
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Senegal, Jul 25 (IPS) - The current Ukraine-Russia conflict is dominating the global media to the point of overshadowing longer protracted crisis that no longer make headlines, but are still rife. Such is the case with the on-going Sahel crisis, one of the world's most neglected ones, where acute poverty, the dramatic effects of climate change and rising armed conflicts have become the norm for more than a decade. A situation further exacerbated by the on-going COVID-19 pandemic.
We're on the Cusp of the most Catastrophic Food Crisis in 50 years: Where is the Global Response?
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN / TERNI, Italy, Jul 25 (IPS) - A growing mountain of data and analysis points to an unprecedented global crisis in the making, due to the convergence of “Four Cs” (Conflict, Covid, Climate and Costs).
The Vision of a World Divided into two Blocs: China & Russia vs Europe & the United States
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 20 (IPS) - For years, Russia's relations with the European Union and the United States have been one of the main areas of conflict in the media. Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of manipulation and disinformation and, after the invasion of Ukraine, decided to close their media outlets to Russian companies.
Sri Lanka: Why a Feudal Culture & Absence of Meritocracy Bankrupted a Nation
- Inter Press Service
BROMLEY, UK, Jul 19 (IPS) - Sri Lanka is officially bankrupt and a failed state in all but name. How did a country of 22 million people with a level of literacy on par with most of the developed world end up in such a dire position where the state coffers did not have the measly sum of 20 million dollars to purchase fuel to keep the country functioning beyond the next working day?
Achieving the SDGs in Extraordinary Times
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 15 (IPS) - The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises.
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Jul 13 (IPS) - During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing numbers of affected people and the death-toll in different countries. Watching COVID’s rampage became a kind of horror show. However, already after a few months with death-tolls rising and isolation not being over anytime soon, psychological fatigue set in. Judging from media coverage it now appears as if the pandemic finally is over, which is far from being the case.
Myths Fuel Xenophobic Sentiment in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
Johannesburg, Jul 07 (IPS) - Around the world, from Syria to Libya, from Bangladesh to Ukraine, millions have become refugees in foreign lands due to war, famine, or political and economic instability in their countries.
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