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Opinion by Melek Zahine (Bordeaux, France) Monday January 12, 2026 Inter-Press Office BORDEAUX, France, Jan 12 (IPS) – Before providing military aid, deploying troops or dropping bombs, the United States lays the foundation for its political violence by first stripping its opponents of their humanity. Diplomacy is sidelined, legal restrictions are treated as inconveniences and […]
Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (dhaka, bangladesh) Thursday January 8, 2026 Inter-Press Office DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jan 8 (IPS) – As many of you know, I have been called in out of the blue to help the interim government led by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus stabilize the economy that is in ruins under the fallen autocratic-kleptocratic […]
Two malnourished children receive nutritional supplements at a health center in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan. Credit: UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal by Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday January 8, 2026 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Jan 8 (IPS) – As Sudan approaches 1,000 days of civil war, there was a brutal escalation of violence in late December and early […]
A man walks past a campaign poster of the military proxy party USDP, ahead of Myanmar’s closely monitored elections. Credit: Guy Dinmore/IPS by Guy Dinmore (Yangon, Myanmar and Bangkok) Tuesday January 6, 2026 Inter-Press Office YANGON, Myanmar and BANGKOK, Jan 6 (IPS) – With thousands of civilians dead in years of civil war and more […]
Credit: Isabel Infantes/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (London) Tuesday December 30, 2025 Inter-Press Office LONDON, Dec 30 (IPS) – Satellite images showing corpses piled high in El Fasher, North Darfur, awaiting mass burial or cremation as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia tries to hide the extent of his crimes. Up to […]
Credit: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images Opinion by inés m. pousadela (Montevideo, Uruguay) Saturday December 27, 2025 Inter-Press Office MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 27 (IPS) – Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women in black spent 15 minutes in a city park – one for every […]
from CIVICUS Friday December 26, 2025 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS discusses Generation Z-led protests in Bulgaria with Zahari Iankov, senior legal expert at the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law, a civil society organization that advocates for participation and human rights. Zahari Jankov Bulgaria has recently experienced its largest protests since the 1990s, largely driven by young […]
Credit: Annegret Hilse/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by inés m. pousadela (Montevideo, Uruguay) Wednesday December 17, 2025 Inter-Press Office MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 17 (IPS) – Machines without a conscience make split-second decisions about who lives and who dies. This isn’t dystopian fiction; it is today’s reality. In Gaza, algorithms have generated killing lists of up […]
by external source Wednesday December 10, 2025 Inter-Press Office In a world full of turbulence and doubt, one promise remains. In 1948, countries adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It mentioned dignity, freedom and equality as rights for everyone, everywhere. Too often, power, profit and prejudice push these rights aside. The number of civilian […]
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), briefs reporters on UNRWA’s services in the occupied Palestinian territories and on UNRWA’s ongoing operations. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday November 18, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) […]
