When Will World Food Day be a Day to Actually Celebrate?
14 小时之前 · BALTIMORE, Maryland USA, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - World Food Day seems like it should be a time to celebrate. A day to eat delicious meals and enjoy the rich traditions and cultures of food around the globe. But it’s difficult to celebrate when conflict, the climate crisis, and our biodiversity loss crisis leave at least 733 million people hungry ...
TikTok and WHO Join Efforts to Combat Misinformation
2024年9月30日 · Today’s digital age is centered around TikTok, the short-form social media platform that hosts around 1 billion global users. Sensationalized or reductive videos often get the most engagement with young audiences, leading to the spread of misinformation on a global level. On September 26, the World Health Programme (WHO) and TikTok announced a year-long collaboration, …
Central Asia Has Always Been Important for Europe
BRUSSELS, Sep 3 2019 (IPS) - The EU has presented a new strategy for Central Asia. The first one has been adopted in 2007 and revised in 2015. Where do you see improvements? Our new Strategy will aim to focus future EU action in the region on two key priorities.
Bangladesh faces a challenge to ensure welfare of its aging …
2019年2月22日 · This report is produced by UNB United News of Bangladesh and IPS Inter Press Service.. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 22 2019 - (IPS/UNB) – Bangladesh economy’s impressive growth trajectory over the last decade has been buttressed by the demographic dividend resulting from a large portion of its population — around 65 percent on average — being of working age.
Huge moment for Ethiopia as Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace prize
2019年10月12日 · Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (centre wearing sunglasses) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. He is pictured here in Addis Ababa with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (red tie), behind Kenyatta is …
Kenya: The troubles of a science PhD from the West
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 27 2019 (IPS) - Graduate students of the London School of Economics and Political Science gathered at Kenya’s coast in September 2018, where the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Dr Mukhisa Kituyi told them: “With your international credibility, it is easier and tempting to leave and take out of the continent the little ...
Paraguay Moves Towards Sustainable Commodities
2019年7月2日 · Paraguay Moves Towards Sustainable Commodities. Silvia Morimoto is UNDP Resident Representative in Paraguay. ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jul 2 2019 (IPS) - The statistics are alarming. By 2050, the world will require an estimated 60 percent growth in agricultural production to meet the food demand of a population of close to 9 billion people.
Cross-country Differences in Income Inequality - Inter Press Service
Sep 1 2016 - In recent years, there has been a growing interest among general people, researchers and policymakers in income inequality, its causes, and its effects. The most popular index of income inequality is the ‘Gini index’, which measures the inequality among levels of income of the people of any country.
LAOS: Water Headaches Follow Growth of Cities - Inter Press Service
2010年6月24日 · Vannaphone Sitthirath. VIENTIANE, Jun 24 2010 (IPS) - At 63, Kingkham Duoangsavanh has it made. Now retired after decades of working as a nurse, she lives happily with her grown-up children in a well- appointed home with all the amenities.
ARGENTINA: Survivors, Activists Disappointed Over Human Rights …
2007年10月18日 · Marcela Valente. BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 2007 (IPS) - The first trial for the crimes against humanity committed in Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA) opened Thursday in the Argentine capital. But survivors of the notorious torture centre, where at least 5,000 political prisoners were held at some point during …