By External SourceBurkina Faso, Jul 28 2021 (IPS-Partners) In Burkina Faso, Honorine Meda has been trained by the German Development Agency (GIZ) to raise awareness among teenage girls about pregnancy. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says all children have a right to education, adolescent girls who fall pregnant […]
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/marcinjozwiak The European Commission has released its hotly anticipated ‘Fit for 55’ package under the European Green Deal. The sweeping plan contains measures to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 55% before 2030 using a two-pronged strategy. The proposal involves employing economic levers to redirect the bloc’s course towards […]
Read MoreApex Clean Energy and Plug Power Enter PPA to Power Largest Wind-Supplied Green Hydrogen Plant in the Nation On 14 July 2021, Apex Clean Energy Inc. (“Apex”) and Plug Power Inc. (“Plug Power”) announced a power purchase agreement (“PPA”) to supply a green hydrogen production facility with 345 MW of […]
Read MoreJul 27, 2021 Press Release New Global Food 50/50 Initiative Provides Data to Address Gender Gap Rome: Just six percent of CEOs and board chairs of a sample of organizations active in food systems are women from low- and middle-income countries, according to initial findings from a new joint report […]
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Jean Marie Ishimwe (Kenya), a Refugee Youth Representative addresses a high-level roundtable convened by UNHCR and ECW, the UK and Canada. Credit: Joyce Chimbi By Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, KENYA , Jul 27 2021 (IPS) The difficulties in accessing education faced by children and young people forcibly displaced from their homes were […]
Read MorePejabat Direktorat Jenderal Pengendalian Pencemaran dan Kerusakan Lingkungan (Ditjen PPKL) Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan (KLHK) mengungkapkan 59 persen sungai di Indonesia masih dalam kondisi tercemar …
Read MoreCountry: World Source: UN Children’s Fund “Based on our most recent estimates, a staggering 40 per cent of all school-aged children across Eastern and Southern Africa are currently not in school. Four in ten,” said UNICEF.
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/Sofi5t There are more people on the planet than ever before and untold numbers of them live in relative prosperity compared to their parents and grandparents. In China alone, hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of grinding poverty in the past few decades. A similar trend […]
Read MoreCompanies using ethylene oxide (EtO) in their operations should be aware of the substantial increase in litigation and regulatory activities surrounding the compound and how those developments may affect their businesses. With hundreds of claims being filed across the United States and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) prioritization of […]
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A Venezuelan family carrying a few belongings crosses the Simon Bolivar Bridge at the border into Colombia. Over the years, the migration flow has grown due to increasing numbers of people with unsatisfied basic needs. CREDIT: Siegfried Modola/UNHCR By Humberto MárquezCARACAS, Jul 26 2021 (IPS) The exodus of more than […]
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