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23 September 2022, 08:15

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine war and rising costs are ‘severely and disproportionately affecting’ Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the President of the UN General Assembly told their annual ministerial meeting on Thursday.

Read the full story, “Least developed countries impacted by ‘range of interlinked crises’ – Assembly President”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15

Mia Amor Motley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, urged world leaders to “use the power of the pen” and impose natural disaster and pandemic clauses in developing countries’ debt, as well as remove the current barriers to accessing financial assistance from multilateral development banks.

Read the full story, “Barbados Prime Minister Motley calls for overhaul of unfair, outdated global finance system”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15

Warring parties in South Sudan are committed to implementing a peace deal that has improved security in the country, Vice-President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol Agany told the UN General Assembly on Thursday. 

Read the full story, “South Sudan: Vice-President highlights commitments and challenges to peace”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15

NAIROBI, Sep 22 (IPS) - Fatuma is a 24 year old girl from Korogocho, an informal settlement in Nairobi. She died in December 2021, from complications arising from an unsafe abortion. Her friend and a few of her neighbors found her bleeding profusely and unable to move. They rushed her to the hospital. Unfortunately, she died before she could see the doctor.

Read the full story, “The New Cold War Over Access To Safe Abortion in Kenya”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15

LONDON / EDINBURG, Sep 23 (IPS) - As the devastating images of flooding in Pakistan went round the world and the country declared a state of emergency, some 4,000 miles away in Stockholm, delegates had just arrived for World Water Week – an annual focal point for global water issues.

Read the full story, “Why Investing in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Pays Off”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15

Collectively, “we must address...the fundamental imbalances in the world we share,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Thursday, calling for global “climate solidarity” to support vulnerable countries that have suffered “loss and damage” from climate change.

Read the full story, “Demark rallies wealthy nations to back ‘climate solidarity’, boost financing for hard-hit poor countries”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15

LIMA, Sep 22 (IPS) - "When the pandemic hit, I stopped studying, just when it was my last year of school…My parents couldn't afford to pay for internet at home," said Rodrigo Reyes, 18, one of the nearly 250,000 children who dropped out of school in 2020.

Read the full story, “Inequality in Peru's Education Sector Deepens in Post-Pandemic Era”, on globalissues.org

23 September 2022, 08:15
Move to lift travel restriction comes amid fears the former British colony is losing its competitive edge.
23 September 2022, 08:15
UN chief Antonio Guterres told UN agencies 'must stop' presenting credentials and signing agreements with coup leaders.
23 September 2022, 08:15
It cloaks Israel's state savagery against Palestinians in a cape and undoes Marvel's move towards humane stories.