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While we talk on how to reduce the use of fossils, we are doing the opposite. At this very moment, we spend 10 million dollars per minute, to subsidize the fossils industry. Just counting direct subsidies, they are between 775 billion dollars to 1 trillion, according to the UN

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ROME, Dec 27 2017 (IPS) - On 20 December, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels, to discuss the plan for reducing emissions prepared by the Commission, to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Well, it is now clear that we have lost the battle in keeping the planet as w...
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When the UN General Assembly condemned the United States for its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the vote was described as a “collective defiance” of the international community against public threats against the United Nations and its member states by a politically unpredictable and predictably wavering US President. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/us-faces-collective-defiance-un-j…/

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 2017 (IPS) - When the UN General Assembly condemned the United States for its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the vote was described as a “collective defiance” of the international community against public threats against the United Nations and it...
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The countries of Central America are striving to define a plan to promote the sustainable use of water, a crucial need in a region that is already suffering the impacts of climate change http://www.ipsnews.net/…/central-america-hashes-agenda-sus…/

In 2017, Donald Trump dominated the year by using US clout to change many aspects of global relations, and not for the better. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/12/goodbye-2017-trump-dominated-y…/

President Donald Trump prepares to address the general debate of the Assembly’s seventy-second session. Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton
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The government appears to finally realise that squeezing private media is a mistake and self-defeating, leaving the field open to the likes of social-media activists with their own agendas http://www.ipsnews.net/…/ethiopias-new-addiction-says-medi…/

Two out of 10 women between the ages of 15 and 19 in the Dominican Republic have been pregnant or have been mothers;
The causes of this sinister reality, briefly described, are multiple; but its consequences are clear: low or very low quality of life, poor welfare, recurrent poverty, exclusion http://www.ipsnews.net/…/rise-teenage-pregnancy-deters-dev…/

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Dec 19 2017 (IPS) - A few years ago, someone shared a video with me that deeply impacted me. It was called “The Girl Effect”. In three minutes, the video demonstrates the fate of millions of girls and teenagers around the world.
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3 out of 10 people do not have a safely managed water supply, and 6 out of 10 lack safely managed sanitation. Over 2 billion people drank water that was fecally contaminated in 2015, and the World Bank estimates that the annual cost of poor sanitation is in excess of $260 billion annually. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/water-water-everywhere-costs-migh…/

“I’m a migrant, but didn’t have to risk my life on a leaky boat or pay traffickers. Safe migration cannot be limited to the global elite.” Thus spoke United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in September 2017. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/right-passage-safe-migration-not-…/

GENEVA, Dec 18 2017 (IPS) - “I’m a migrant, but didn’t have to risk my life on a leaky boat or pay traffickers. Safe migration cannot be limited to the global elite.” Thus spoke United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in September 2017.
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While the media may be attracted by images of migrants drowning or sold as slaves, another flagrant but lesser-known drama is that of care workers, who are overwhelmingly women, often migrants, and who make a very large contribution to global public health, but are exposed to great health risks themselves with little or no protection, let alone basic labour rights. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/no-health-protection-migrant-wome…/

Myanmar’s minister for resettlement, Win Myat Aye, has said that his country would be taking back no more than 300 refugees per day. At that rate, it would take over five and a half years for all the 600,000 Rohingyas to be allowed back in. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/why-the-rohingya-cant-yet-return-…/

On Nov. 23, the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement to return the Rohingya refugees
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Every village in Nepal has someone who is working or has worked abroad. One third of the country's GDP comes from overseas workers. But there's a high price to pay. http://www.ipsnews.net/…/12/helping-nepal-by-working-abroad/

Every village in Nepal has someone who is working or has worked abroad. 1/3 of the country's GDP comes from overseas workers
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IPS journalists have been reporting from the camp areas within Bangladesh. They have met and spoken to many Rohingya families and learned first-hand what happened to them - the women, children and men - and what their hopes are for the future. Our journalists captured images from far and wide that reflect the agony and fears of the Rohingya who are living in dismal conditions. http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/12/153539/