When Girls Have Access to Technologies, A True Digital Revolution Will Be In Sight
2.2 billion young people below the age of 25 don’t have internet connections at home, and girls are more likely…
Year: 2024
Ongoing Pandemic Push Africa’s Children Out of School
Quality, safe, gender-responsive and inclusive education for Africa’s children increasingly out of reach, say experts. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS Nairobi, Nov…
Covax, the Developing World’s Hope against COVID, Has Made It Only Halfway
Delivery of syringes for the vaccination campaign in El Salvador. Latin American countries have made steady progress in immunizing their…
How Collective Action Can Move the Needle on Gender Equality
Delegates take a group photo at the Young Leaders & Alumni Workshop at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference in Vancouver,…
New Medicines May Help End AIDS– but High Prices & Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out
The writers are Deputy Executive Directors of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) A man is tested for…
An Integrated Regional Response for the Sahel Crisis
Benoit Thierry, is Sahel Office Director of International Fund for Agriculture Development, Dakar DAKAR, Senegal, Jul 25 2022 (IPS) –…
Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 25 2022 (IPS) – Widespread adverse reactions to the UK government’s recent ‘mini-budget’ forced new…
Fear of Population Ageing
The ageing of populations poses mounting challenges for governments that will require changes in national policy priorities, country institutions and…
Lessons from Rome. Weaving Peace Is a Polyphonic Dialogue
Colosseum at the Prayer with the Pope and the representatives of the workd’s religions. Credit: Elena L. Pasquini ROME, Nov…
Celebrating Deaf Pride: Embracing Our Survival in a Mute System
Lack of accessible information in sign language has made online platforms, education, healthcare inaccessible for the Deaf due to non-provision…