By Zoltán Kálmán Zoltán Kálmán is Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Rome-based UN agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP). He was President of the WFP Executive Board in 2018. ROME, May 26 2020 (IPS) -...
HYDERBAD, India, May 21 2020 (IPS) - Amid the social distancing measures posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, coastal communities in Bangladesh and India face a double threat as the record-breaking...
By Neena Bhandari The Asia Pacific region has one of the highest number of people in modern slavery, but the growing awareness of modern slavery in the region has led to the implementation of...
Yasmine Sherif is Director, Education Cannot Wait NEW YORK, May 13 2020 (IPS) - Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we estimated that 75 million children and youth – of whom 39 million are girls – were...
Malawi is a source, destination and transit country for human and sex trafficking. But the poverty-stricken nation, where almost 80 precent of its population is employed by the agriculture sector,...
By Anand Grover and Ximena Casas May 12 2020 (IPS) - “When I was 13… I got pregnant from my older brother… He raped me starting when I was 11,” a girl from Guatemala told one of us in 2015. She was...
GINEBRA, 22 abr 2020 (IPS) - La temperatura del planeta se eleva, los glaciares se derriten y los desastres naturales acechan mientras avanza el coronavirus, por lo que se requiere no solo aplanar la...
By Neena Bhandari Women in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu are dealing with six crises currently – COVID 19, drought, scarcity of potable water, and volcanic ash, acid rain and sulphur gas...
By Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) - The number of coronavirus cases in Kenya has jumped to three after the government confirmed two more cases. President Uhuru Kenyatta has...
By Zofeen Ebrahim Dr. Rana Muhammad Safdar, the coordinator for Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication, has sleepless nights thinking about what needs to be done for...