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In Hela Province, in the far interior of mainland PNG, rural women would have to travel considerable distances by road or air to reach a hospital that provides mammograms for breast screening. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS by Catherine Wilson (Sydney, Australia) Friday October 24, 2025 Inter-Press Office SYDNEY, Australia, Oct 24 (IPS) – The burden of […]
Women’s rights have been steadily eroding in Afghanistan since 2021. Credit: UN Women | The recent power outage has shown how important the internet has become for Afghan women and how when that connection is lost, hope fades and isolation ensues. Opinion by UN Women (New York) Wednesday October 22, 2025 Inter-Press Office NEW YORK, […]
Tirtha Prasad Saikia, director of the North-East Affected Area Development Society, speaks to IPS at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Credit: Diwash Gahatraj/IPS by Diwash Gahatraj (Abu Dhabi) Monday October 13, 2025 Inter-Press Office ABU DHABI, Oct 13 (IPS) – As global conservation leaders gather in Abu Dhabi for the IUCN […]
When AI tools like conversational screen readers, adaptive dashboards, and real-time captioning are designed with lived experience at their core, they don’t just remove barriers; they expand the possibilities. They transform access into choice and the freedom to fully learn, lead and contribute. Avoiding a “shinier version of the same old prejudices.” Surashree Rahane was […]
Opinion by Katsuhiro Asagiri (Tokyo) Friday October 10, 2025 Inter-Press Office TOKYO, Oct 10 (IPS) – The cinema hall of Tokyo’s Toda Peace Memorial Hall fell silent as the Kazakh filmmaker and human rights activist Aigerim Seitenova stepped forward in a black T-shirt and green skirt to introduce her 31-minute documentary, “Jara – Radioactive Patriarchy: […]
from Civicus Tuesday, October 7, 2025 Inter-press service Civicus discusses recent protests that have led to a government change in Nepal with Dikpal Khatri Chhetri, co -founder of Youth in Federal Discourse (Yfd). YFD is an organization led by young people that argues for democracy, social involvement and the empowerment of young people. DikPal Khatri […]
Registered by the UN cultural agency, UNESCOIn 2021 as an element of intangible cultural heritage of humanity, Durga Puja is not only a festival, it is a city-wide re-asset act, one that resonates with the Bengalian Diaspora and others around the world. For a few autumn nights, the city of Kolkata (and other parts of […]
Dr. Salanieta Kitolelei, from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine, Dr. Simon Salopuka, Taumako Native Knowledge Institution – Tiki and Leilani Duffy, Conservation International Samoa in a discussion about weaving ancestral knowledge with Ocean Science Ocean Ocean Ocean Conference. Credit: Sera Sefeti/IPS By Sera Sefeti (Honiara, Solomon Islands)) Friday, October 3, 2025 Inter Press Service […]
The Tremor met the coast of Bogo City at 9.59 pm on Tuesday 30 September, with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) that reported a shallow depth of approximately 10 kilometers. Residents said the earthquake sent people into the street. A tsunami warning was briefly published and later lifted in the early hours […]
Filippo Grandi, High Commissioner of the United Nations for Refugees, focuses at the conference at a high level of the general meeting about the situation of Rohingya-Moslims and other minorities in Myanmar. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Oritro Karim (United Nations)) Wednesday October 1, 2025 Inter Press Service United Nations, 1 October (IPS) – On […]
