By Global Issues UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 (IPS) – This week in New York, nuclear arms and the efforts to abolish these weapons will reign paramount. Since its adoption in 2017 and its subsequent implementation in 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has been signed by over 90 Member States, 69 […]
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By Global Issues LADAKH, INDIA, Nov 29 (IPS) – While working as a doctor in the initial months of his medical career in southern India, a telephone call from his home in the Ladakh Himalayas convinced Nordan Otzer to involve himself with cervical cancer awareness. Read the full story, “This Doctor Helps Himalayan Women Ward […]
By Global Issues MONTEREY BAY, California, Nov 29 (IPS) – Just a few weeks ago, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened the Climate Ambition Summit with a warning that by failing to act on the climate crisis, he said “humanity has opened the gates of hell.” Could not say it more strongly. And he also […]