COVID-19 in the Time of Insecurity
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal AMMAN, Jordan, Mar 26 2020 (IPS) – Humankind has outlived multiple pandemics in the course of world history. The kingdoms and states of Central …
Kenya’s Adolescent Women Left Behind As More Married Women Access Contraception
Complications of pregnancy and child birth are a leading cause of preventable deaths and ill health among adolescent women in Kenya. But research shows a combination of modern contraceptives for …
COVID-19 and Hope for a Compassionate Future
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 9 2020 (IPS) – The Coronavirus, COVID-19, makes its deadly round across the world. People fall sick and die, communities and entire nations end up in …
Public Health and Epidemics
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 30 2020 (IPS) – For some time Wuhan in China and Lombardy in Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 virus, something that has changed when the …
HIV Services Take a Backseat to COVID-19 in Russia
In Russia, which has one of the world’s worst HIV/AIDS epidemics with the rate of new infections rising by 10-15 percent per year and at least 1.2 million people infected, …
Eliminating Age Discrimination from Lockdown Curfews
Charlotte Cooper is Campaigns Coordinator at CRIN – Child Rights International Network. Sealed playground just outside the Slovak capital, Bratislava. Credit: Ed Holt/IPS LONDON, Jun 10 2020 (IPS) – During …
Looking Beyond the Lowest-common Denominator? DFID/FCO Merger
The progress on ending extreme poverty, preventable child deaths, gender equality and climate change was too hard won to be side-lined Poor families can seldom afford the cost of …
Last Mile Teachers
George K. Werner served as Minister of Education in Liberia from 2015 to 2018. Caitlin Baron is CEO of the Luminos Fund, a non-profit working in Liberia and across Africa …
COVID-19: Lessons from the Losses
Clementine, a community health volunteer, meets with a mother and child. Credit: Lys Arango for Action Against Hunger, Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – If countries considered Universal …
Q&A: COVID-19 has Pushed Women Peacebuilders from Key Leadership Roles
Scenes from a rehearsal session with Colombia’s Cantadora Network, a network of singers using traditional Afro-Colombian music to preserve their culture and promote peace. According to the Global Network of …