Dorcus Auma weaving sisal fronds into a basket. Her Kenyan women’s group has helped provide income to care for her grandchildren, orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Credit: Charles Karis/IPS NAIROBI, Jun 27 2016 (IPS) – Seventy-three-year-old Dorcus Auma effortlessly weaves sisal fronds into a beautiful basket as she walks the tiny path that snakes up a hill. […]
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UN’s Ultimatum to Staff & Diplomats: Get Vaccinated or Go Hungry
UN Secretary-General António Guterres gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at Adlai Stevenson High School in the Bronx, New York. January 2021. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 2021 (IPS) – As New York city struggles to cope with the widespread outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus Delta variant -– which has claimed more than […]
Finance Drives World to Stagflation
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 2022 (IPS) – The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation. After the US Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, more central banks have been doing likewise. Considering inflation’s contemporary causes, such ‘follow the leader’ central bank mimicry cannot check it […]