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Press Freedom: A Story of Lives Lost, Budgets Slashed, Status Eroded

By Farhana Haque Rahman TORONTO, Canada (IPS) - Press freedom is on...

No Bones Broken, No Crime Committed: Inside the Taliban’s New Rules on Violence Against Women

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with...

Online University Throws a Lifeline to Afghan Women Shut Out of Education

KABUL (IPS) - Ever since childhood, Khatera’s (not her real...

No forests, no economies

Sustainable management that protects and promotes nature amidst growing...

Urban Dwellers in Southern Africa Turn to Backyard Farming

By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — At unoccupied swathes of land behind houses in Bloomingdale, a medium-income suburb in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, numerous...

A New Integrated Financing Facility to Help Achieve UN’s Development Goals by 2030

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which primarily include the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2030,...

Street Vending: Covid Seems to Have Killed a Bangkok Icon

By Pattama Vilailert BANGKOK (IDN) — Street vendors have been an iconic attraction for millions of tourists that visited Bangkok each year before the COVID-19...

Decentralisation Vital to Achieving the UN’s Global Goals

Viewpoint by Yossef Ben-Meir The writer is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and president of the High Atlas Foundation. MARRAKECH (IDN) — The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals...

African Free Trade Area Expected to Lift Millions out of Extreme Poverty and Boost Growth

By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (IDN) — The long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)—set to be the world’s biggest free-trade zone by size—which entered into...

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No Bones Broken, No Crime Committed: Inside the Taliban’s New Rules on Violence Against Women

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Online University Throws a Lifeline to Afghan Women Shut Out of Education

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No forests, no economies

Sustainable management that protects and promotes nature amidst growing...

Why the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Need Work, Not Just Rations

By Mohammed Zonaid COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (IPS) - While global attention right...
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