I am Generation Equality: Child Marriage Survivor & Activist

FUSHE KRUJE, Albania, Nov 26 (IPS) - *Fatmira Dajlani has been working as an activist for 14 years in Albania and is leading "Roma Gateway for Integration" organization in Fushe Kruje. Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They...

Global Clothing Brands Should Respond to the #MeToo Mandate

Nov 24 (IPS) - It has been two years since #MeToo went viral, and it's about time the garment industry's sexual harassment problem got the attention it deserves. Clothing and footwear brands can do much more to prevent and address gender-based violence in their supply...

A Staggering One-in-Three Women Experience Physical, Sexual Abuse

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 (IPS) - Violence against women and girls is among the most widespread, and devastating human rights violations in the world, but much it is often unreported due to impunity, shame and gender inequality, the UN highlighted ahead of Monday's World Day...

Evo Morales: Hero or Villain?

STOCKHOLM / ROME, Nov 20 (IPS) - To be president in a country like Bolivia might be like a precarious act performed by a tightrope-dancer between "the Devil and the deep blue sea". After 23 years as Bolivia's President, Evo Morales finally lost his foothold and ended up...

With the UN Security Council in Paralysis, Are there New Hopes for Rohingya Muslims?

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (IPS) - The 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC) stands virtually paralyzed in the face of genocide charges against the government of Myanmar where over 730,000 to one million Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh since...

"Transformational benefits" of Ending Outdoor Defecation

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) - Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have "transformational benefits" for some of the world's most vulnerable people, says the UN's partner sanitation body, the WSSCC (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative...