World Living Beyond Its Means: Warns UN’s Global Water Bankruptcy Report
Collecting water in Ethiopia. A new report, ‘Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post Crisis Era’ warns that many of the earth’s water resources have been pushed to a point of permanent failure. Credit: EU/ECHO/Anouk Delafortrie/IPS
By Umar Manzoor ShahUNITED NATIONS & SRINAGAR, India, Jan 20 2026 – The world has entered what United Nations researchers...
One Carries a Broom, the Other a Schoolbag
Without a classroom or facilities, our community teachers provide lessons to children engaged in domestic labour. Credit: UKBET
By Mohammed A. SayemSYLHET, Bangladesh, Jan 19 2026 – While other children her age prepared for school, eight-year-old Tania once began her workday. Each morning, she picked up a jharu—the household broom—and cleaned floors inside a private home. At the same time,...
How Extreme Weather is Testing Tanzania’s $2 Billion Electric Railway Dream
Around the world, railways are considered as pillars of climate action. Electric trains produce fewer emissions than road or air transport. Yet the experience of Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway highlights a growing paradox: infrastructure designed to be climate-friendly is itself increasingly exposed to climate shocks.
Economic Dogma Blocks Pragmatic Policies
By Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 2026 – After condemning pragmatic responses to the 1997-98 Asian financial crises, the West pursued similar policies in response to the 2008 global financial crisis without acknowledging its own mistakes.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Politicised exchange rates
After US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker sharply raised interest rates from late...
Children and Armed Conflict Must be at the Forefront of the Global Agenda
By Mikiko OtaniTOKYO, Japan, Jan 19 2026 – Thirty years ago, the groundbreaking report by Graça Machel, renowned and widely respected global advocate for women’s and children’s rights, to the United Nations General Assembly laid bare the devastating impact of armed conflict on children and shook the conscience of the world. It led to the historic decision of the General Assembly...
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Karatoya
By External SourceBOGURA, Bangladesh, Jan 19 2026 (IPS-Partners)
Once a lifeline of northern Bengal, Bangladesh’s Karatoya River now drifts through Bogura as a fragmented, polluted channel, where climate change and human neglect quietly reshape livelihoods, memory, and everyday life.
Flowing through the heart of Bogura, the Karatoya River bears the weight of a long, visible decline. Once one of...
The UN’s Withering Vine: A US Retreat from Global Governance
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By Jordan RyanJan 19 2026 –
The Trump administration’s recent announcement of its withdrawal from 66 international organisations has been met with a mixture of alarm and applause. While the headline number suggests a dramatic retreat from the world stage, a closer look reveals a more nuanced, and perhaps more insidious, strategy. The move is less...
CGTN: China und Kanada fördern die stetige, solide und gesunde Entwicklung der bilateralen Beziehungen unter veränderten Umständen
CGTN hat einen Artikel über das Treffen zwischen dem chinesischen Präsidenten Xi Jinping und dem kanadischen Premierminister Mark Carney veröffentlicht. Der Artikel stellte die Entwicklung der bilateralen Beziehungen in den Mittelpunkt. Es wurde aufgezeigt, dass die beiden Länder weitreichende Aussichten für eine Zusammenarbeit haben, und es wurde erörtert, wie China und...
CGTN: Como a China e o Canadá estão promovendo o desenvolvimento estável, sólido e confiável dos laços bilaterais sob novas circunstâncias
A CGTN publicou um artigo sobre a reunião do presidente chinês Xi Jinping com o primeiro–ministro canadense Mark Carney. Centrado no desenvolvimento das relações bilaterais, o artigo destacou que os dois países compartilham amplas perspectivas de cooperação e abordou como a China e o Canadá estão comprometidos em promover o desenvolvimento...
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