How Covid-19 Proved an Opportunity for Youth in Small-Town India
Young people from small towns are now able to work close to home thanks to co-working spaces that opened up...
Month: September 2024
Finding Ways to Feed South Africa’s Vast Hungry Population
Nosintu Mcimeli and Bonelwa Nogemane of the Abanebhongo People with Disability (APD) started with an agroecological project to improve food...
The Lead-Free Water Pledge: Steps Towards a Future of Lead-Free Drinking Water
Young children and infants are particularly sensitive to the harmful effects of lead. Current statistics suggest that approximately one in...
Driven by the War, Russian Women Arrive en Masse to Give Birth in Argentina
Two of the six Russian women who were detained by the Argentine immigration authorities when they reached the country on...
Reject CPTPP, Stay out of New Cold War
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jul 19 2022 (IPS) - Joining or ratifying dubious trade deals is supposed to offer miraculous...
With Planning Aging Population Could Result in a Silver Dividend
Maldives Minister for Gender, Family, and Social Services, Aishath Mohamed Didi, in her keynote address said her island country faced...
Alive Amidst the Mayhem of COVID-19 – A Sex Worker’s Story
NEW YORK, Apr 9 2020 (IPS) - For a Bangladeshi woman, who has worked as a sex worker since childhood,...
Is It Time to Postpone the 2020 Climate Summit?
NEW YORK, Mar 25 2020 (IPS) - With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the planet and the governments of both wealthy...
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Pacific Islands
Raghbendra Jha is Professor of Economics and Executive Director, Australian National University CANBERRA, Australia, May 21 2020 (IPS) - As...
Malawi’s COVID-19 Cash Transfer Almost Ready But Election Fever may Prevent Lockdown
Malawi’s small scale traders selling their merchandise at Limbe market in Blantyre. Credit: Lameck Masina/IPS BLANTYRE, Malawi, Jun 11 2020...