More dry years ahead for South-East Asia

New UN-ASEAN study reveals slow but devastating impacts of drought in the region By PRESS RELEASEMANDALAY, Myanmar, Apr 24 2019 (IPS-Partners) (ESCAP news) – Future scenarios of drought in many parts of South-East Asia may become even more ...

After the Rain: The Lasting Effects of Storms in the Caribbean

By Luis Felipe López-CalvaUNITED NATIONS, Apr 24 2019 – Sustainability is constitutive of the concept of development. Just as economist Amartya Sen has argued that there is no point in discussing the relationship between development ...

At the initiative of the Geneva Centre, a coalition of NGOs will organize on 9 May an Emergency Assembly on the rise of global racism and the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA)

By Geneva CentreGENEVA, Apr 24 2019 (IPS-Partners) A panel debate will be organized by the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue – a think tank holding special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council ...

Russia’s First Female Central Bank Governor in a Challenging Job

Photo: Courtesy of the Central Bank of Russia By Olga StankovaWASHINGTON DC, Apr 24 2019 – Within a few short months after taking up her post as governor of the Central Bank of Russia in 2013, Elvira Nabiullina faced a growing economic ...

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft Enhances Customer Support in Africa and the Middle East with Relocation of its Q Series Aircraft Regional Support Team

Customer support team for the Q Series Aircraft Program will be located alongside longstanding customer South African Express Airways and close to O.R. Tambo International Airport Customer support team for the CRJ Series Aircraft Program will ...

Privatization Promotes Collusion and Corruption

Privatization is expected by many to promote competition and eliminate corruption. In practice, the converse has been true as privatization beneficiaries have successfully colluded and engaged in new types of corruption to maximize their own ...

Lost in the Cyberworld? The Enigmatic Mr Assange

By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 23 2019 – Trump´s electoral success was preceded by a rise of chauvinistic politics in most of Europe, paired with electoral triumphs of far-right candidates in several other countries. A development ...

Against All Odds, Indigenous Villages Generate Their Own Energy in Guatemala

Diego Matom, a member of the Ixil indigenous community, poses happily with his family, surrounded by fresh loaves of bread which were baked thanks to community electricity generation, which has given his business a big boost, in the 31 de Mayo ...

Bleak Outlook for Press Freedom in West Africa

By Lahai J. SambomaLONDON, Apr 23 2019 – When former footballer George Weah became president of Liberia in 2018, media practitioners felt they had in him a democrat who would champion media freedoms. “But we were mistaken,” journalist ...

Why Climate Action Plans are not Good Enough to Deliver a Low-Carbon Future in Cities

Illustration by Cliff van Thillo By Karishma AsarpotaDUBAI, Apr 23 2019 – Though climate policies aim to reduce GHG emissions, they miss out on emphasizing the importance of urban planning policies Cities that have ratified the Paris ...