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IPS is an international communications institution at the heart of a global news agency that amplifies the voices of the South and civil society on development, globalisation, human rights and the environment. www.ipsnews.net

Malawi endures worst cholera outbreak in decades

The cholera case reported by the district hospital in Malawi’s southern region on 3 March 2022 was the first of the 2021-2022 season, and a warning of what was to come: the worst cholera outbreak recorded in the African country…

Generation and self-consumption, the way to clean energy in Argentina

With large projects held back by the economic crisis and lack of infrastructure, Argentina seems to see an alternative path towards greater sustainability of its energy matrix in small renewable energy ventures, promoted by industries, businesses and private users sensitive…

New circular solutions to plastic pollution are emerging

Collecting plastics at a Nairobi rubbish dump (Image by Aljazeera, video capture) Experts agree that Africa’s economies need to develop innovative approaches to deal with plastic production, which will double in 20 years and negatively affect the continent’s rural communities.…

Starting with food to ensure human rights

On Saturday 10 December, Human Rights Day, it will be 74 years since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. As far as the right…

Russia & Europe, The Ukraine War & Possibilities for Euro-Atlantic Peace

Webinar on Dec 14, 2022 04:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration Reiner Braun is a leading European peace advocate and until recently, the Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau. He recently returned from a series of…

Racism and discrimination strike millions of children worldwide

Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnicity, language and religion remain widespread in many countries around the world, according to a UNICEF study released on World Children’s Day, 20 November. On World Children’s Day, and every…

Indian village discovers the treasure of organic and indigenous agriculture

In Jhargram, a remote village in the Indian state of West Bengal, a group of farmers sit together in one of the large fields around them. Here they must discuss, deliberate and decide on the marketing strategy they will use…

With Lula, Brazil recovers external credibility and internal dialogue

The blocking of hundreds of roads and crowds demanding a coup d’état in front of the barracks did not cloud the democratic climate and the good international repercussions of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s election as president of Brazil for…

The women fighting against the ayatollahs from the Kurdish mountains

By Karlos Zurutuza for Inter Press Service. It usually takes hours of driving in a 4X4 before heading out on foot through a dense forest. There, protected under a sea of beech trees from the view of the drones, it…

Economy and society must turn climate change upside down

Only an “urgent and comprehensive” transformation of sectors and systems of the economy and society can avert the looming climate catastrophe, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned in a new report on Thursday. Inger Andersen, executive director of UNEP,…

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