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from CIVICUS Wednesday January 28, 2026 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS speaks to the Business and Human Rights Center (BHRC) about labor rights violations in Myanmar’s garment industry since the 2021 military coup. Myanmar’s garment sector, which employs hundreds of thousands of workers, is in deep crisis. Since the coup, labor protections have collapsed, independent unions have […]
The International Court of Justice is holding public hearings on the merits of the case concerning the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Gambia vs. Myanmar: eleven intervening states) at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Credit: VN Web TV by Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday January […]
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 […]
A damaged classroom and school materials at Dahilig Primary School in Gainza Municipality, Camarines Sur, Philippines, weeks after severe Tropical Storm Kristine (Trami) caused extensive damage in October 2024. Credit: UNICEF/Larry Monserate Piojo by Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday October 30, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) – By 2024, the climate crisis […]
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 […]
A child stares at the camera as he waits his turn at a UNICEF-supported mobile clinic in Boucan Carré, Haiti. Credit: UNICEF/Herold Joseph by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday October 14, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 (IPS) – New figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) show that the number of displaced […]
Nandini Azad, chairperson of the Working Women’s Forum – Indian Cooperative Network for Women, participated in a high-level dialogue at the Natesan Institute of Cooperative Management in Chennai on Friday. | Photo credit: special arrangement Cooperatives are not merely economic enterprises but powerful vehicles for social justice and resilience, Nandini Azad, chairperson of the Working […]
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 […]
