A young boy in Pakistan receives an oral polio vaccine (OPV). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS AMSTERDAM, May 6 2020 (IPS) – Interruptions to vaccination programmes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could result in new waves of measles or polio outbreaks, health…
Zoltán Kálmán is Permanent Representative of Hungary to the Rome-based UN agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP). He was President of the WFP Executive Board in 2018. ROME, May 26 2020 (IPS) – Hunger and food insecurity continue to rise. The official…
Peter Kamalingin B.L. is the Pan Africa Program Director for Oxfam International Jennifer Cynthia Nyakonga, a 24-year-old teacher in Palabek Refugee Settlement, Uganda in class. Following closure of schools due to COVID-19, many of the girls have gotten pregnant and…
GENEVA, Jul 24 2020 (IPS) – Dr David Nabarro is Special Envoy to the World Health Organisation on COVID-19 and Strategic Director of 4SD. He sets out his challenge to leaders to use COVID-19 as an opportunity for radical change…
Credit: in the Philippines, supported by the Agroecology Fund ROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) – Producing food and ensuring nutrition security, protecting the environment and restoring biodiversity, building sustainable and fair food systems: That’s the promise of agroecology. It is…
Credit: Bibbi Abruzzini PARIS, Jun 10 2021 (IPS) – In the last 20 years, . At global level we witness on average one sweeping disaster a day, the majority of which are floods and storms. From the Covid-19 pandemic to…
NEW YORK, Dec 14 2020 (IPS) – The United Nations Secretary-General’s marked the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (25 November to 10 December 2020) at a time when COVID-19 exacerbated the conditions women operate under. The theme, ,…
Map of countries with projected austerity cuts in 2021-2022, in terms of GDP, based on IMF fiscal projections. Credit: I. Ortiz and M. Cummins, 2021 NEW YORK and NAIROBI, Apr 15 2021 (IPS) – Last week Ministers of Finance met…
A global system in which poor countries are unable to develop and produce their own vaccines to match their demand is not sustainable; particularly when faced by potential future pandemics. Credit: PAHO/Karen González. Jul 20 2021 (IPS) – “Vaccine equity…
Credit: Global Policy Forum BONN, Germany, Sep 16 2021 (IPS) – Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have exacerbated rather than reduced global inequalities. On the one hand, the net wealth of billionaires has risen to…