Learning for a Lasting Peace
By Yasmine Sherif International Day of Education Statement: Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif NEW YORK, Jan 24 2024 - Education is the bedrock of peace, the foundation of strong...
By Yasmine Sherif International Day of Education Statement: Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif NEW YORK, Jan 24 2024 - Education is the bedrock of peace, the foundation of strong...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan 18 2024 (IPS) - ‘Per Giulia e per tutte’ (‘For Giulia and for all’) echoed through the streets of Italy in mid-November 2023. Thousands of women, activists and supporters...
By Kevin Humphrey JOHANNESBURG, Jan 17 2024 (IPS) - There is cautious optimism regarding the conflict that has been raging in northern Mozambique, largely in the province of Cabo Delgado, since 2017...
PATUAKHALI, BANGLADESH , Jan 10 2024 (IPS) - In the past, Salma Begum, 40, lost her crops every year due to natural disasters. She lives with her five-member family in Ashabaria village under...
By Leon Usigbe At risk of flooding are 372 out of the country's 744 local government areas. *Climate disasters are happening at frightening rates in Nigeria, and the administration now says it will...
By Tafadzwa Munyaka and Angela Umoru-David The longstanding methods of fundraising by African NGOs are shaped by unique challenges, often rooted in economic, political, and cultural factors as well...
The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons Dec 14 2023 (IPS) - According to United...
By Joyce Chimbi DUBAI, Dec 10 2023 (IPS)- In the absence of sufficient urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is becoming too hot to farm in Africa. Confronted by extreme, intense, and frequent...
ECW’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif, ECW's Executive Director at COP28 where she is appealing to the states and participants to contribute to the education of children impacted by climate-change...
CARACAS, Nov 28 2023 (IPS) - In the wee hours of one morning in early November, Ernesto, 50, swallowed several glasses of a cocktail of drugs and alcohol in the apartment where he lived alone in the...