Asian nations fear that the Paris Climate Deal will be a watered down minimalistic product without any teeth. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS
NEW DELHI, India, Nov 22 2015 (IPS) – On a late Friday afternoon as choking smog descended on the Indian Capital, Francois Richier, the French ambassador to India , took some hard questions from scores of journalists about the upcoming climate change talks in Paris this month.
The journalists were discussing the run up to global climate change Conference of Parties, COP 21, which starts 30th November in Paris and one of the reoccurring sentiments was that this meeting is a done deal and that little if anything would be accomplished. Tha…
This is part of a series of features from across the globe on human trafficking. IPS coverage is supported by the Riana Group.
DUBAI, Dec 21 2018 (IPS) – The media globally tends to have a bias to negative, sensational and headline grabbing stories and events and this certainly applies to reporting related to human trafficking in the third world. With the abundance of stories around sweat shops, massage parlours and organ trafficking networks happening ‘somewhere else’, the West is generally desensitised, lacks empathy and fails to fully appreciate the scale of the problem which sits right under their noses and in plain sight.
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Dr Shafi Bhuiyan with colleagues. He and his colleagues argue that COVID-19 has exposed gaps in the Canadian healthcare system.
Toronto, Canada, Sep 3 2021 (IPS) – Access to quality healthcare is a basic human right, but for many, especially those in vulnerable communities, the right is not fully realized.
The exposed this in the Canadian healthcare system.
While surgical backlogs and delayed appointments may be prominent features of the healthcare crisis, the indirect impacts of Covid-19 must be considered. These include a , such as cancer screenings, declining health among Indigenous and aging people and for those with chronic illnesses, as well as worseni…