Gen Z, the generation born between the mid-1990s and the early 2010s, has grown up steeped in technology. Unlike previous generations who had to adapt to the digital world, Gen Z is a native inhabitant, fluent in the language of code, social media, and the ever-evolving online landscape. This digital fluency, coupled with their unique experiences and perspectives, positions Gen Z to be the architects of a bright and innovative digital future.
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Gen Z is a generation deeply concerned about social justice and environmental issues. They leverage the power of social media to raise awareness, mobilize for change, and hold corporations accountable. From climate change activism to advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, Gen Z isn t af…
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Johanna Son
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 2005 (IPS) – What s the difference between condoms meant to block transmission of HIV/AIDS and those aimed at preventing unwanted pregnancies? None, of course although you d never guess as much when looking at the work of AIDS campaigners and those who promote family planning.
All too often, these groups pursue their goals in isolation of each other. As a conference underway here points out, this has slowed progress in reproductive health care in Asia, and enabled the AIDS pandemic to continue spreading.
Many in the family planning field (view) AIDS as a disreputable disease among disreputable people, Steve Sinding, director-general of the London-based International Planned Parenthood Federation, said at the third Asia-Pacific Confere…
Toye Olori
LAGOS, Oct 30 2006 (IPS) – It s certainly a logical suggestion: in an effort to make cocoa-producing countries in Africa less dependent on consumers abroad, why not increase domestic consumption of cocoa products?
While Africa produces more than 75 per cent of the world s cocoa, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the continent consumes only about two percent of this produce. The remainder goes to Europe and the United States which, some claim, have too big a say over cocoa prices as a result prices that are set without much consideration for production costs.
A glut of cocoa has also played a part in forcing down prices fetched by the commodity on the international market. In addition, European cocoa buyers have tied lower pr…
Mirela Xanthaki
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 3 2008 (IPS) – With a million people dying by suicide every year and two suicide deaths per minute, it remains a major preventable cause of death worldwide, mental health experts say.
It is tragic that in a world where more people kill themselves each year than die in all wars, terrorist attacks and homicides, there is so little attention paid to suicide prevention and only a dozen countries have a national strategy for suicide prevention, Brian Mishara, president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), told IPS.
Former Soviet States such as Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus and the Russian Federation have the highest suicide rates per capita. However, countries in Asia account for 60 percent of suicides worldwide…
SANTA LUCÍA MILPAS ALTAS, Guatemala, Jun 27 2012 (IPS) – Cases like that of a little boy with an undetected metabolic disorder whose parents sold everything they owned to cover the costs of medical treatment that was ineffective prompted a doctor to create a vanguard institute of human genetics in Guatemala.
“A couple from a rural village, who longed to have children but were never able to, one day found outside their shop a box with a baby in it and a message asking them to take care of him because his parents couldn’t support him,” the director of the new institute, Gabriel Silva, told IPS.
They were happy to adopt him. But at the age of five, he had his first seizure. “His adoptive parents went to a private health centre, to pay for the first treatment. His i…
In Serfanguri relief camp in Kokrajhar, several tents were erected, but they were inadequate to properly house the roughly 2,000 people who had arrived there on Dec. 23, 2014. This single tent houses 25 women and children. Credit: Priyanka Borpujari/IPS
KOKRAJHAR, India, Jan 29 2015 (IPS) – The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
The inhabitants of these camps – about 240,000 of them across three other d…
Logistic and communication challenges to rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine are immense in the rural and remote highlands region of Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson
CANBERRA, Australia , Jul 13 2021 (IPS) – Papua New Guinea (PNG), like many other Pacific Island countries, successfully held COVID-19 at bay last ye…