IDS Event: Making gains for gender justice: Lessons from women’s movements in South Asia

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6 March 2025 12:00–13:30 Institute of Development Studies IDS Convening Space and online on Zoom. In the face of escalating attacks on women’s rights globally, what is it that feminists can learn from women’s struggles in South Asia?

OXFAM: In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns

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Published: 24th February 2025 Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of the year. It would take 15 million workers an entire year to make as much money. Since G20 Finance Ministers agreed to work together to effectively tax the super-rich in July 2024, billionaires have pocketed over $1 trillion in new wealth.

Almost 9 in 10 going all day without eating as hunger in Haiti reaches record high

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ActionAid survey finds 99% of families are going without meals – sometimes for days at a time – because they can’t afford to buy food. 88% of households said a family member had gone all day without food in the past month. Some families are surviving on just over US$1 worth of food per person for an entire month.

Breast cancer cases projected to rise by nearly 40 per cent by 2050, WHO warns

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24 February 2025 Health Breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 percent globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected to rise by 68 percent, according to a new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised branch of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Energy Transfer’s $300 Million Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Poses a Serious Threat to Free Speech in America

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Energy Transfer, a Texas-based fossil fuel company, has sued Greenpeace, a renowned environmental nonprofit organization, for $300 million for participating in protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the company’s Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016-2017. The eye-popping amount could bankrupt Greenpeace.

Behind the Rising Journalist Safety Index (INDONESIA)

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Journalist Safety Index 2024 increases. However, behind the increase in the index, a number of data and facts show strong signals of threats to press freedom in the future

IMO progresses talks on greenhouse gas reduction from shipping

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International efforts to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping took a step forward as the IMO's Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG-GHG 18) concluded its latest round of discussions.

NewsroomPostIPCC gathers in Hangzhou to agree on outlines of the key contributions to the Seventh Assessment Repor

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HANGZHOU, Feb 24 – The 62nd Plenary Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened today in Hangzhou, China, to consider and agree on the draft outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) and the Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.

IOM, Partners Appeal for USD 81 Million to Assist Over One Million Migrants in Horn of Africa, Yemen, and Southern Africa

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11 February 2025, Nairobi –The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and 45 humanitarian and development partners are appealing for USD 81 million to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to over one million migrants — including women and children — and the communities that host them in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Republic of Tanzania, Kenya and Yemen.

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