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BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 07 (IPS) - Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: ...

NEW YORK, Oct 05 (IPS) - We must build a new social contract for education - a contract based on equality, equity, and universal human rights. At the center of our global efforts to ensure education for all, we must put teachers first in everything . ...

NEW YORK, Oct 04 (IPS) - Khalid Saifullah, Fellow, Save Bangladesh USA Inc.The commonly used Bangla phrase for siphoning off money out of the country - "taka pachar" - is rather misleading. Because taka, the Bangladeshi currency, is never taken out . ...

HARARE, Oct 04 (IPS) - African policymakers, local leaders and the private sector have been asked to create an enabling environment that will help African traders and farmer folks build reliable systems for food security and resilience through ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct 04 (IPS) - The UN Office on Drugs and Crime hailed the recently agreed Cybercrime Convention as a 'landmark step' in cooperating to tackle online dangers. But human rights organisations aren't so sure.

Every September when UN Headquarters in New York is swamped - massive motorcades, intense security, snipers on rooftops and world leaders descending along with throngs of diplomats, media and celebrities - it's not easy to grasp what exactly is going ...

KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 04 (IPS) - Over the coming month, the United States has a window of opportunity to lift a multi-billion-dollar burden from Ukraine, and other countries in financial distress, without costing the US taxpayer a dime.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 03 (IPS) - Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, calls prostitution a "system of violence" that does not benefit society at all, especially the women and girls forced into this system.

MOSCOW, Oct 03 (IPS) - In an interview with Sky News Arabia on September 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed scepticism but was straight to the point about the strategic expansion of BRICS, an association comprising Brazil, Russia, . ...

MANZANILLO, Cuba, Oct 02 (IPS) - When the weather is bad, the residents of the Litoral neighborhood in Manzanillo, Cuba, are forced to evacuate their houses. When it's calm, the sea penetrates the foundations of houses, leaving them vulnerable. Now . ...