A group of youths engaged in various activities in Machinga, Malawi, to prevent and help in fighting trafficking of children from the area to Mozambique. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS By Charles MpakaBLANTYRE, Malawi, Oct 6 2020 (IPS) In August, police intercepted the trafficking of 31 people to Mozambique. The victims, all Malawians, included 17 children and
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6 October 2020
Poverty, Official Complicity Hampers Human Trafficking Fight in Malawi
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5 October 2020
Will COVID-19 Change the Global Balance of Power?
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Wang Yi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, addresses the virtual Security Council summit-level debate on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Global Governance post Covid-19”. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe. By Daud Khan and Leila Yasmine KhanAMSTERDAM/ROME, Oct 5 2020 (IPS) Lockdowns, social distancing, face-masks and other restrictions on personal and
5 October 2020
Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study
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Climate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland Much of the Amazon could be on the verge of losing its distinct nature and switching from a closed canopy rainforest to an open savannah with far fewer trees as a result of the climate crisis, researchers have warned. Rainforests are
5 October 2020
The Guardian view on houseplants: balm for troubled times | Editorial
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Pandemic stress can be relieved by cultivating greenery, which makes people happier and more relaxed The essayist Jia Tolentino wrote last year about people being in the grip of “houseplant fever”; ads for houseplants called “Ken” or “Pippa” pop up on the internet; a Zoom call isn’t complete without a plant somewhere in evidence; and
4 October 2020
Trouble breathing: ‘We all breathe the same air, but we don’t breathe equally’
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The question of who breathes, and who suffocates, is a question of who deserves to live. It’s a question that will only become more urgent as the climate crisis develops This is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020 The medical term is acute respiratory distress syndrome.
3 October 2020
Energy Transition and Post-Covid Recovery, a Challenge for Latin America
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Windmills in Calama, in the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile. The projects in Chile to take advantage of its high potential in unconventional renewable energies have managed to reduce the country’s dependence on imported fossil fuels and to reach a fall in the general cost of energy. Image: Marianela Jarroud / IPS By Emilio GodoyMEXICO
1 October 2020
What does the first climate question at a US debate in 20 years reveal?
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The question framed the existence of a human-made climate crisis as something that is for some Americans still debatable The long-awaited climate question in last night’s presidential debate broke a 20-year silent streak from moderators on the crisis – thrusting it into prime time but also revealing just how stuck in the past much of
1 October 2020
To Achieve Gender Equality Within, the UN Must Do More to Tackle Sexual Harassment
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Credit: Equality Now, Tara Carey By Antonia KirklandNEW YORK, Sep 30 2020 (IPS) In September 2017, Secretary-General António Guterres launched the “System-wide strategy on gender parity”, which set the goal of reaching gender parity within the United Nations by 2028 and outlined a strategy on how to achieve this, including the introduction of special measures,