Legal Recognition of East African Sign Languages Key Towards Inclusion
The United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) require the governments to remove all barriers to
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Poverty & SDGs
Three Ways to End Gender-based Violence
Opinion by Jacqui Stevenson – Jessica Zimerman – Diego Antoni (united nations) Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS,
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HIV Prevention: New Injection Could Boost the Fight, But Some Hurdles Remain
Access to PrEP has been slow and mostly limited to high income countries. Some countries, like Kenya, Uganda, South Africa,
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AGRA Gets Make-Up, Not Make-Over
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Timothy A. Wise (boston and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Inter Press Service BOSTON and
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Black Fraud-Days and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Around 7,500 litres of water are used to make a single pair of jeans, equivalent to the amount of water
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Was COP27 a Success or a Failure?
After days of intense negotiations that stretched into early Sunday morning in Sharm el-Sheikh, countries at the latest UN Climate
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Crimes Against Children
Children from marginalised ethnic, language and religious groups, from 22 low and middle-income countries which were analysed, lag far behind
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A Looming Debt Crisis is Threatening Global Health Security. It is time to Drop the Debt
Opinion by Jaime Atienza, Charles Birungi (geneva) Monday, November 21, 2022 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Nov 21 (IPS) – In this
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G20 Summit, a Missed Opportunity to Tackle Global Cost of Living Crisis
Opinion by Matti Kohonen (london) Friday, November 18, 2022 Inter Press Service The G20 summit motto was “Recovering Together, Recovering Stronger”
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Don’t Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
A new analysis of the “investments of 125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting
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