by Adam Tooze on 6th July 2020 @adam_tooze Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation.
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Covid-19 And Migrant Workers: The great wage robbery
“Gulf countries are highly dependent on migrant workers in almost every major sector…and yet they have utterly failed to protect migrant workers, and treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve”—these words were spoken by a representative of Amnesty…
Racism and Dominance
By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 15 2020 (IPS) – The #MeToo movement triggered worldwide protests that hopefully was instrumental in making people better aware of a continuous and often hidden mistreatment of women. Maybe can the current I…
Leadership, Political Leadership and Statesmanship
Genesis of leadership When the number is one, question of leadership does not arise, when the numbers are two, a germ of leadership is sowed, when the numbers are more than two, question of leadership appears visible indistinctly but when…
Sweden, the pandemic and precarious working conditions
by Lisa Pelling on 10th June 2020 @lisa_pelling Most commentary on the Covid-19 death toll in Sweden has been on the absence of lockdown, yet privatisation and precarity in eldercare should really be in the spotlight.
Science and politics: A new alliance?
by Valerio Alfonso Bruno on 9th June 2020 @ValerioA_Bruno The pandemic has brought science and expertise to the fore in the public sphere, as an anchor of trust—and put the populists on the back foot.
Certainties and responses: Bangladesh Budget 2020-21
Ruling 14-party alliance led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is full of activity with the formulation of Budget 2020-21 under such landscapes when the world is befuddled and challenged with COVID-19, which shall be placed in Parliament very soon so…
George Floyd: US’ Week of Broken Glass and Broken Dreams
By James Reinl NEW YORK, Jun 4 2020 (IPS) – The United States has been a story of broken dreams and broken glass this past week. Once again, an unarmed black man died at the hands of a white police…
COVID-19: challenges, Dilemmas and Initiatives
Dr. Sinha MA Sayeed Creations, destructions and reformations in various mood and modes have been going on unceasingly in the universes and the Sun being one of the members of such reality needs to be tolerant as usual. Therefore, Sun…
Republic of Nepal, Dalit and Brahmin dominance
Written by Rem Bahadur Biswakarma It has been twelve years since Nepal became a federal democratic republic. The monarchy which was constitutionally considered as a symbol of Hindu feudalism was abolished on 3 June 2008 for Nepal to become a…
Climate Targets and Industry Participation in the Recovery
by Henrik Poulsen, Mads Nipper, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen COPENHAGEN – The COVID-19 pandemic must not lead governments to lower their climate ambitions. Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon sustainable economy can both drive the recovery and build resilience for the…
UN@75 and the future we want
By Dr Julia Stamm BERLIN, May 27 2020 (IPS) – Crises make us think smaller. When everything is uncertain, we turn inward: to our families, our communities, the immediate needs around us. We focus on the essential and the immediate;…
Spend Fossil-Fuel Subsidies on Pandemic Relief and the Poor
By M. Chatib Basri, Rema N. Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken JAKARTA/CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – In addition to its health and human toll, the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to reverse much of the progress that developing countries have made in reducing…
Investing in Nature Pays off for People and Biodiversity
If you take care of the land, it will take care of you, says Tsefaye Kidane, a 40-year-old coffee farmer from the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in southwest Ethiopia that is also regarded as the birthplace of wild…
Corona Pandemic and the Workers
M Zahidul Haque DURING this Corona pandemic if one asks a worker-“How are you doing in this corona pandemic?” One would get a common reply with a set of problems—“Not so well; not yet received salary, under landlord’s pressure for…
Freedom of religion and the Covid-19 pandemic
By Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi Any place on earth can be a mosque and prayer can be offered wherever there is the presence of God. The movement restriction order is preventing us from going outside but it does not prevent…
The pandemic and the day after
by Andreas Antoniades on 15th May 2020 @aaantoniades Emergence from the coronavirus crisis cannot be to ‘business as usual’ but must urgently open a transition to socio-environmental sustainability.
When machines think for us: Consequences for work and place
by Judith Clifton, Amy Glasmeier and Mia Gray on 14th May 2020 @_mia_gray The one sure way not to forecast the impact of artificial intelligence technologies is technological determinism.
The pandemic and the recolonisation of time
by Çiğdem Boz and Ayça Tekin-Koru on 8th May 2020 @Ayca_TekinKoru The expansion of free time during the crisis could lead to a reassessment of leisure and a revalorised public sphere. The Covid-19 crisis has engendered an unparalleled self-evaluation of…
Overconsumption, globalised supply chain and Covid-19 crisis
by Meadhbh Bolger on 6th May 2020 @MeadhbhBolger We must build back more resilient, just societies that consume within ecological limits. The immediate response to the Covid-19 crisis must continue to be saving lives, preventing the further spread of the…
Global impact of new corona virus and population issues
By Osamu Kusumoto TOKYO, May 5 2020 (IPS) – The new coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to wreak havoc across the world, as the number of infections and deaths rapidly rise. It has the potential to infect anybody regardless of age or…
Public health and epidemics
By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 30 2020 (IPS) – For some time Wuhan in China and Lombardy in Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 virus, something that has changed when the contagion is spreading fast in the US.…
Social trust and government responses to Covid-19
by Sevasti Chatzopoulou on 4th May 2020 How governments have addressed the pandemic has reflected different levels of social trust—which will have consequences for its aftermath.
North and South Korea exchange gunfire at border
North and South Korea have exchanged gunfire in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) which divides the two countries.
Valuing life differently: migrants and the coronavirus crisis
by Felix Bender and Magdalena Ulceluse on 1st May 2020 @FEHBender The coronavirus crisis has led many to revalue human life. But not, it seems, when the lives are of migrants. A lot has been said and written on the…
Address stigma and prejudices against coronavirus victims
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The Narayanganj Sadar Upazila administration is campaigning to persuade the residents of a mahalla of the district town not to disturb the family of a doctor for contracting coronavirus. Shilpi Aktar, the doctor who has been seeing…
It’s a virus, and this isn’t a war
by Karin Pettersson on 28th April 2020 @AB_Karin The coronavirus crisis is a social challenge, Karin Pettersson writes, which the formerly secure are now being reminded is hitting the poor hardest.
China’s political system and the coronavirus
by Branko Milanovic on 20th April 2020 @BrankoMilan Branko Milanovic explores how the pandemic has highlighted China’s international responsibility and how such global ‘externalities’ are to be rendered accountable.
People not in safety net count need to be seen and supported
Mostafa Kamal Majumder As the duration of the coronavirus lockdown is in the fourth week in Bangladesh beginning on March 26, new categories of people vulnerable to hunger are emerging. They are normally not the people to ask for support…
Problems facing persons with disabilities and way forward
Amrita Rejina RozarioWith current Covid-19 pandemic flaring up across 210 countries in the world, millions of poor people are already affected and more so in the developing world.