ROME, Jun 3 2022 (IPS) – Developing countries are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the climate change crisis, the debt crisis and, on top of all this, a global recession. The crises have overlapped, and each has added to the problems created by the previous ones.
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Much of the “fault” for these crises lies with the big countries – their desire for geo-political domination, the continued emission of GHGs, the tight money policy of recent months.
There are strong calls for increased aid flows and debt relief, as w…
A woman is advised by a BLAST counsellor. The organization offers legal support, including providing information, advice, and free legal representation. Credit: BLAST
NEW DELHI, Dec 21 2023 (IPS) – Criminal justice systems in South Asia are failing women, despite stark statistics on the prevalence of violence. WHO estimates translate to one in every two women and girls in the region experiencing violence daily.
Nawmi Naz Chowdhury, a Global Legal Advisor at , told a webinar titled ‘Future of Leg…
DUBAI, Apr 1 2020 – Global crises need global solutions yet some adjustments will have to be made if the world has to adopt a multilateral approach toward tackling the Corona pandemic, a senior academic said on Tuesday, March 31.
Participating in an e-symposium organized by the think-tank, TRENDS Research Advisory, Prof. Yong Wang of the School of International Studies and Director, Center for International Political Economy at Peking University, said the G-20 has already taken an initiative and more such efforts are needed.
“We have our national interests but for facing challenges such as this we should work together,” he said. Prof. Wang was a panelist at the …
Nicolas de Rivière is President of the Security Council for the month of June 2020 and Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations.
Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Great Lakes region. New York, 3 October 2019. Credit: UN Photo/Laura Jarriel
NEW YORK, Jul 31 2020 (IPS) – “Reconciling the requirements of the ideal with the possibilities of the real : this is how Georges Bidault, Minister for Foreign Affairs and head of the French delegation to the San Francisco Conference, pursued by the drafters of the Charter of the United Nations. On…