Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, May 15 2006 (IPS) – Every year, the U.N. s Department of Public Information unveils its list of the world s 10 most under-reported stories, implying that politics, murder and sex scandals still take precedence over poverty, peace-building or economic development.
Every year, the U.N. s Department of Public Information (DPI) unveils its list of the world s 10 most under-reported stories, implying that politics, murder and sex scandals still take precedence over poverty, peace-building or economic development.
The list, released by the United Nations Monday, covers a wide range of stories from the plight of asylum seekers and refugees in ongoing conflicts to earthquake relief and post-war reconstruction that received little or no play in the …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dec 23 2010 – The cholera crisis is forcing Haitian authorities to address an unpleasant and now life-threatening problem – untreated feces.
A desludging truck shoots excreta into the pit at Trutier. Credit: WASH Cluster, Haiti
The first infections likely came from cholera-infected feces in a river, and feces is a main vector of the vibrio cholera bacteria. But Haitian authorities have been slow to face the problem.
With at least 2,591 dead and over 63,000 hospitalised …
Julio Godoy
BERLIN, Mar 14 2011 (IPS) – The unfolding nuclear catastrophe in Japan, triggered by last Friday s massive earthquake and tsunami, followed by a chain of explosions in atomic power plants, has forced the German government to rethink its own nuclear energy policy.
Pressed by the opposition and the anti-atom movement, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on March 14 that her centre-right coalition government, made up of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP), had decided to temporarily reverse its earlier decision to prolong the lifetime of all nuclear power plants operating in the country.
Explaining a three-month moratorium, Merkel said that after the nuclear catastrophe in Japan we cannot go on as if nothing had happened. She a…
Emilio Godoy * – Tierramérica
MEXICO CITY, Jun 13 2011 (IPS) – In the 1998 medical thriller Toxin by U.S. novelist Robin Cook, the ground beef in hamburgers is contaminated with a deadly strain of the Escherichia coli or E. coli bacterium, unleashing a massive epidemic. The novel was inspired by a real outbreak that had taken place several years earlier.
Market in the indigenous village of Oxchuc, Chiapas, Mexico. Credit: Mauricio Ramos/IPS
The appearance of a new strain of E. coli in Germany, …
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 16 2021 (IPS) – The COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented threat to development in the Asia-Pacific region that could reverse much of the hard-earned progress made in recent years. The good news is we know how to tackle this challenge. Recovery from the pandemic and our global efforts to deliver the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 must go hand-in-hand. The Goals provide a compass to navigate this crisis, faster and greener, everywhere and for everyone.
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana
Results from the 2021 edition of the Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report published today by the United Nations Economic …
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 2021 (IPS) – Hopes for an inclusive global economic recovery are fast fading. As rich countries have done little to ensure poor countries’ access to vaccines and fiscal resources, North-South “” will certainly widen.
Enhancing relief, recovery, transformation
While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has rich countries’ recovery prospects upward, the United Nations (UN) notes formidable challenges, especially for developing countries, due to the pandemic.
Anis Chowdhury
The of more setbacks for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), already behind schedule before the pandemic. Grim recovery prospects have be…