MADRID, Spain, Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The "Women as Peace Champions" project of the Women's Rights Association in Pakistan was selected as one of ten global grassroots initiatives to receive the prestigious [...] Read more »
Why Is Growth Slowing in China?
By Vladimir Popov and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
BERLIN and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 2019 - China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 14%. Since then, its growth rate has declined by more than half to 6.6% in 2018. The five-year moving average [...] Read more »
South-South Cooperation Offers Solutions to Urgent Climate Challenges
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The World had an ‘Unprecedented’ Number of People in Humanitarian Need this Year
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The Graduate Management Admission Council Selects Four New Business Schools for Membership
RESTON, Va., Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a global association of leading graduate business schools, today announced four new schools into its membership. The addition of Hult [...] Read more »
Accelerating SDG Progress in Asia – Pacific
By Kaveh Zahedi and Van Nguyen
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 10 2019 - “The 2030 Agenda is coming to life”, declared the Secretary General at the opening of the first SDG Summit, a quadrennial event for the follow up and review of the 2030 [...] Read more »
Human Rights? But Not for Sanitation Workers
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The Chairman of the Geneva Centre, Ambassador Ghazi Jomaa, calls upon Empowering the Youth to Stand Up for Human Rights
By Geneva Centre
GENEVA, Dec 10 2019 (IPS-Partners)
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights“: the words of the first Article of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights are perhaps [...] Read more »
Human Rights and the Global Protests: Addressing Systems as Well as Symptoms
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The Economic & Humanitarian Catastrophe Threatening Pacific Island Communities
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