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Friday, July 10, 2015

The Week with IPS 7/10

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Humanitarian Emergencies Lend Urgency to World Population Day
Thalif Deen
On the eve of World Population Day, the United Nations is fighting a virtually losing battle against growing humanitarian emergencies triggered mostly by military conflicts that are displacing people by the millions – and rendering them either homeless or reducing them to the status of ... MORE > >

Opinion: Scale Up Innovative Financing for Development
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
More than four decades ago, the richer members of the international community committed to deliver at least 0.7 percent of their respective national incomes as official development assistance. Jomo Kwame Sundaram. Credit: Abdul Ghani Ismail Sadly, less than half a dozen smaller countries ... MORE > >

Climate Commission Issues Blueprint for Low-Carbon Economy
Kitty Stapp
Up to 96 percent of the emissions reductions needed by 2030 to keep global warming below a critical threshold of two degrees C could be achieved through a series of 10 steps, says a new report released by the Global Commission on the Economy and the Climate. "The low carbon economy is already ... MORE > >

Financial Inclusion Key to Climate Risk Reduction for Zambia's Smallholders
Friday Phiri
In the advent of unpredictable weather, smallholder rain-dependent agriculture is increasingly becoming a risky business and the situation could worsen if, as seems likely, the world experiences levels of global warming that could lead to an increase in droughts, floods and diseases, both in ... MORE > >

Equality, a Hard Game to Win for Women Footballers in Argentina
Fabiana Frayssinet
During a women’s football match in a poor neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, team manager Mónica Santino has to stop the game and ask a group of boys and young men not to invade the pitch where they’re playing. This frequent occurrence is just one symbol of a struggle being played out, centimeter by ... MORE > >

Child Labour: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis
Kanya D'Almeida
In a conflict that has claimed over 220,000 lives and injured a further 840,000 people as of January 2015, it is sometimes hard to see beyond the death toll. What started as a confrontation between pro-democracy activists and the entrenched dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad in 2011, ... MORE > >

Sustainable Use of Biodiversity Could Fill Gap When Belo Monte Dam Is Finished
Mario Osava
Some argue that the sustainable use of biodiversity is the best alternative for local development in the area surrounding the enormous Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, now that the construction project is entering its final phase on the Xingú River in Brazil’s Amazon jungle. “The wealth of the ... MORE > >

Funding For Desperate Palestinian Refugees Under Threat
Mel Frykberg
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) faces a severe financial crisis which could see core services to desperate Palestinian refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank halted unless donors step in before the end of September. “Currently we have a deficit of 101 million dollars and, as ... MORE > >

Panama and Nicaragua - Two Canals, One Shared Dream
Iralís Fragiel
Nicholas Suchecki Guillén is blind. His dream was to visit the Panama Canal expansion works, touch the cement structures, and feel part of this new period of history in his country. The 11-year-old stood on the third set of locks in Cocolí, near the Pacific Ocean. He had the privilege of forming ... MORE > >

Union Islanders Wonder if Their Home Will Be the Next Atlantis
Kenton X. Chance
Fifteen years ago, Stephanie Browne, a former Member of Parliament in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, needed only to look at the beach outside her house to know why her community in Union Island was called “Big Sand”. So expansive were the beach and dunes that people played cricket games there ... MORE > >

Poor Bear the Brunt of Corruption in India’s Food Distribution System
Neeta Lal
Chottey Lal, 43, a daily wage labourer at a construction site in NOIDA, a township in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beleaguered man. After a gruelling 12-hour daily shift at the dusty location, he and his wife Subha make barely enough to feed a family of seven. Nor is the ... MORE > >

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