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Media Freedom Declining Across Europe, With Implications for Rule of Law
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2024
Rainy Chiloé, in Southern Chile, Faces Drinking Water Crisis
The drinking water supply in the southern island of Chiloé, one of Chile’s rainiest areas, is threatened by damage to its peatlands, affected by sales of peat and by a series of electricity pr...
We Should Aim to be at Peace with Nature, Says David Cooper of UN Convention on Biological Diversity
In a world faced with habitat loss and species extinction, climate change, and pollution, it’s crucial that countries develop their national action plans and create a society that lives in harm...
Drought and Unequal Water Rights Threaten Family Farms in Chile
For the rural farmers in Chile, a combination of climate change-induced mega droughts, water policies that make access unaffordable and a State that either doesn’t want to or dares not interve...
Using Industrial Waste to Fight Pollution in Brazil
Biogas sounds like redemption, the conversion of the sinner. Its production involves extracting energy from filth, from the most disgusting environmental pollution, and at the same time avoiding ...
WHO Africa Advances African Science by Promoting Peer-Reviewed Research
The World Health Organization’s African regional office and partners published over 25 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals in 2023 as part of efforts to address the imbalance in globa...
Cuban Family Harnesses Biogas and Promotes its Benefits
Just to obtain a good fertilizer it was worth building a biodigester, says Cuban farmer Alexis García, who proudly shows the vegetables in his family’s garden, as well as the wide variety of f...
Climate Crisis in Mountains: Borderless Struggle for Frontline Communities
Climate change-induced flooding has devastated the lives of people living on the Indian and Nepalese sides of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Although the floods have destroyed their lives and liveliho...
Niger’s Military Coup Triggers Child Marriages, Sex Work in Neighboring Countries
A group of young girls aged between 15 and 17 sit tight, following attentively a lesson being taught by a Mualim (Islamic teacher) in a makeshift madrassah (Qur’anic school) located in one of t...
Harnessing Science-Policy Collaboration: The Vital Role of IPBES Stakeholders in Achieving Global Nature Targets
In December 2022, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) saw governments worldwide unite behind a set of ambitious targets aimed at...
Conditions Worsen for Belarus Migrants Stuck in ‘Death Zone’ on EU Border
As the refugee crisis on the Belarus/EU borders approaches its fourth year, a crackdown on activism in Belarus is worsening the situation for migrants stuck in a “death zone” as they attempt ...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 7 FINAL
What makes an effective UN Secretary-General? In our previous posts, we highlighted six possible candidates: Michelle Bachelet (Chile), Rebeca Grynspan (Costa Rica), Maria Fernanda Espinosa (Ecua...
UN Live’s CEO Katja Iversen Talks About the Power of Popular Culture and ‘Sounds Right’
UN Live’s CEO, Katja Iversen, says the way to engage people in the environment is through popular culture—film, music, gaming, sports, food, and fashion. She is excited about the Sounds Right...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 6
Michelle Bachelet is a formidable candidate to be the next UN Secretary-General. Some would even make her the frontrunner, should she choose to stand. Bachelet was the first female head of state ...
Fine, Sanctions, or Waiver: Iranian Gas Will Come at a Price for Pakistan
When Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visits Pakistan this week (April 22, 2024), experts say the two issues topmost on his mind that he will want to discuss with his Pakistani counterpart, Presid...
Portable Ginnery Could Revive Kenya’s Ailing Cotton Industry
Kirinyaga University may have just breathed new life into Kenya’s ailing cotton industry as varsity dons develop a portable cotton ginnery. For an industry that has been struggling to survive, ...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 5
This was the stark warning of Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in 2023. Grynspan was appointed as the new head of UNCTAD—and its first ...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 4
Is the rough-and-tumble of leading the UN General Assembly a good preparation for the top UN job? Maria Fernanda Espinosa served as President of the UN General Assembly from 2018-2019, garnering ...
Better Incentives Needed to Expand Solar Energy in Cuba
With a bolder policy and flexible payment mechanisms, perhaps Alexis Rodríguez would have opted for solar panels for his home, instead of the portable generator that has made it possible for him...
Africa Pushing Limits To Boost Renewable Energy Supply Chain, Security
Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Afri...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 3
A third possible candidate for UN Secretary-General is Alicia Bárcena. Mexico’s current Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Bárcena boasts a professional background that is both broad and deep. Hav...
Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil
A bakery, fruit pulp processing and water pumped from springs are empowering women farmers in Goiás, a central-eastern state of Brazil. New renewable energy sources are driving the process. “W...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?PART 2
When the conversation turns to who might replace António Guterres as UN Secretary-General, the name of Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, is on many insiders’ lips. In addition to being ...
Pioneering Digital Initiative Empowers Pacific Islands to Tackle Climate Disasters
Winning a battle for survival requires understanding the opponent. And, for the peoples of 22 island nations and territories scattered across more than 155 million square kilometres of Pacific Oc...
Who Should be the Next UN Leader?Part 1
Could a UN insider take the top job? Amina J. Mohammed is the current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She has been in the role since early 2017, making her something of a veteran ...
Secondary Education Is a Bottleneck in Brazil
Alice went for eight weeks without Portuguese language classes after starting her first year of high school on Feb. 5 in this Brazilian city. Her chemistry teacher taught only two classes and dis...
IPCI 2024: Oslo Commitment Protects Sexual and Reproductive Rights Across All Contexts
Parliamentarians from 112 countries have adopted the IPCI statement of commitment to protect and promote sexual and reproductive health rights, committing to the principle that “life or death i...
IPCI 2024: Technology as a Tool to Advance and Threaten Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
Technology emerged as a core theme of IPCI Oslo for its relevance in advancing the objectives of the Cairo Programme of Action. When channeled for good, it is an effective tool that can fill acce...
Women Affected by ‘Gender-Biased’ Climate Change Deserve Justice
While research into the unequal impacts of climate change on women is growing, more is needed to enable them to realize their rights to climate justice. Researchers argue that women and girls hav...
When the Man Who Built the Bombs Met the Man Who Dropped the Bombs…
The award-winning Hollywood movie Oppenheimer portrays the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped create the atomic bomb, which claimed the lives of an estimated 140,000 to 226,000 people and ...
IPCI 2024: Oslo Conference Focuses on Parliamentary Power over Reproductive Rights
Gearing up for the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the world’s parliamentarians and ministers are meeting in Oslo to determine the course ...
UN Staff Warned Against Public Comments on the Devastating Conflict in Gaza
The deadly six-month-old Israeli-Hamas war, which has claimed the lives of more than 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza and over 1,200 in Israel, has sharply divided the world with vociferous protestors...
30 Years On, Genocide Survivors Embark on a Journey To Build a Resilient Future
A minute of silence was observed on April 7 across Rwanda as the country held a memorial ceremony to mourn more than one million people, overwhelmingly Tutsis, who were systematically killed in t...
‘Scattered Measures’ in Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Are Not Enough – UN Secretary General
As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza drags into its sixth month on Sunday, April 7, the UN Secretary-General calls for a “true paradigm shift” in the delivery of humanitarian aid. On Friday Apr...
No Turning a Blind Eye to Protection of Dominican Republic’s Natural Resources, Says Environment Minister
Ahead of the Dominican Republic’s elections, IPS spoke to Miguel Ceara Hatton, Dominican Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, about the challenges of protecting the environment as cl...