Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South

Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South

Cameroon Crisis “More Alarming Than Ever” Tharanga Yakupitiyage The United Nations must act to prevent further devastation from the escalating crisis in Cameroon, human rights groups said. Since 2016, worsening violence in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions has killed almost 2,000 people and displaced over 430,000 people. For years, the UN has ... MORE > >

Frontex Mandate Expanded Ida Karlsson The European Union plans to deploy 10 000 armed border guards by 2027 to patrol its land and sea borders. The force will have the power to use armed force on the EU's external borders. The European Border and Coast Guard agency, Frontex, currently employs 1 500 border guards and works alongside ...MORE > >

Devastating Epidemic of Crime & Insecurity in Latin America & Caribbean Luis Felipe López-Calva Development is a very uneven process, accompanied by heterogeneity in outcomes across sectors, across regions and across income groups. Such process, Albert Hirschman elegantly established about 60 years ago, constantly generates tensions and demands for redistribution of resources and power. In ... MORE > >

Privatization Solution Worse than Problem Jomo Kwame Sundaram Privatization has not provided the miracle cure for the problems (especially inefficiencies) associated with the public sector. The public interest has rarely been well served by private interests taking over from the public sector. Growing concern over the mixed consequences of privatization has ... MORE > >

Urgent Action Vital to Stop Twin Crises of Nature’s Destruction & Climate Change Andrew Norton The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ report on the global state of biodiversity is shocking but not entirely surprising. The question is, how much more evidence and repeated warnings will it take for governments, companies and financial institutions to wake up to ... MORE > >

Internal Displacement “Deserves Visibility” Tharanga Yakupitiyage More people are displaced inside their own countries than ever before, and only higher figures can be expected without urgent long-term action, a new report found. Launched by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the new Global Report on ... MORE > >

South Africans Look to Re-elected Government to Rebuild a Stagnant Economy Crystal Orderson Millions of South Africans headed out in large numbers, some braving cold and wet weather to cast their ballot in the country's sixth democratic elections this week. The 2019 election was one of the most competitive and contested elections that also saw a whopping 48 parties on the national ... MORE > >

Rise of Right-wing Nationalism Undermines Human Rights Worldwide Thalif Deen The rise of right-wing nationalism and the proliferation of authoritarian governments have undermined human rights in several countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. As a result, some of the international human rights experts – designated as UN Rapporteurs – have ... MORE > >

As Fathers Die, Kashmir's Children Become Breadwinners Umar Manzoor Shah Mubeen Ahmad was nine years old when his mother sold him into service to a mechanic for the petty sum of few thousand Indian rupees. His mother had found it hard to support the family after his father, a labourer, was killed during one of the anti-India protests in Jammu and Kashmir in 2008. So ... MORE > >

Is UAE Leading the Way for Concentrated Solar Power in GCC? Sania Aziz Rahman In April 2019, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published a report on a “roadmap to 2050” in terms of renewable energy. The report highlighted the possibility that by 2050, about 86 percent of the world’s power demands could be met by renewable power. It also highlighted that ... MORE > >