G77 Expresses Gratitude to Thailand for Chairmanship
By an IPS CorrespondentUNITED NATIONS, Feb 1 2017 (IPS/G77)
The 134 members of the Group of 77 expressed gratitude to Thailand for chairing the group in 2016, at a ceremony in the UN Trusteeship Council chamber on Friday 13 January.
Addressing the ...
Why Kenya Must Create a Million New Jobs Annually
Equipping young people with skills through vocational training creates opportunity for decent work and reduces gender inequality Photo James Ochweri/UNDP Kenya.
By Ambassador Victor Ronneberg and Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Feb 1 2017 (IPS)
It i...
We Need a New Social Movement Against Inequality
Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is Secretary General of CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance.
By Dr Dhananjayan SriskandarajahJOHANNESBURG, Feb 1 2017 (IPS)
Oxfam’s latest estimate that just eight super-rich people ? down from 62 last ye...
Families of the ?Disappeared? Search for Clandestine Graves in Mexico
Eight-year-old Juan de Dios Torres, whose five-year-old sister Zoe Zuleica Torres went missing in December 2016 on the outskirts of the northeastern city of San Luis Potos�, participates along with his mother in the brigade searching for the remain...
Want to Prevent Stroke, Diabetes, Cancer? Get Moving? Now!
Worldwide, 81 per cent of school-aged children are not active enough. Photo: WHO
By Baher KamalROME, Feb 2 2017 (IPS)
Tired, lazy, bored, laying down long hours watching TV or seated checking your email? Wrong. And dangerous: not enough exercise c...
Trumps? Executive Order is not against Muslims, says UAE Foreign Minister
By Emirates News Agency (WAM)ABU DHABI, Feb 2 2017 (WAM)
US President Donald Trump was within his sovereign rights when he issued Executive Orders to ban citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from getting entry visas to the United States, sa...
Prioritising Our Female Migrant Workers
By Nahela NowshinFeb 2 2017 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh)
Maksuda Begum, a female migrant worker in Lebanon, who had two tumors in her stomach and was suffering from kidney complications for a long time, breathed her last in a hospital in Beirut on J...
World in Flux
By A. Rauf K. KhattakFeb 2 2017 (Dawn, Pakistan)
Influential contemporary thinker and author George Friedman observed that the modern geopolitical world changes after every 20 years. Towards the end of the 19th century, European ascendancy was compl...
US Trade Hawks and the China Bogey
“Trump’s Defensive tariffs propose to effectively deal with China’s ?trade cheats? “
By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 2017 (IPS)
New US President Donald Trump has long insisted that its major trading partners havin...
Pakistan Moves to End Impunity for Rapists
Protesters gather outside the Lahore Press Club in the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province on July 12, 2016 to demand justice for victims of sexual violence. Credit: Irfan Ahmed/IPS
By Irfan AhmedLAHORE, Feb 3 2017 (IPS)
Amid a wave of ref...
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