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By Thalif Deen IPS Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York March 8, 2017 (IPS) — The United Nations has frequently been accused of vociferously preaching gender empowerment and women’s rights to the outside world — but failing miserably to practice ...

By Margot Wallström IPS Guest Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden March 7, 2017 (IPS) — Lately, the world has tended to present itself in increasingly darker shades. In many places, democracy is questioned, women’s rights are threatened, and the multilateral system that ...

By IPS World Desk ROME/GENEVA, March 8, 2017 (IPS) — “The women’s movement has brought about tremendous change but we must also recognise that progress has been slow and extremely uneven and that it also brought its own challenges,” warned ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist MONTREAL, Quebec March 8, 2017 — Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), the special day we celebrate how much women have achieved. We celebrate the various ways that women have advanced in various careers and ...

By Steven Fouchard Contributing Writer OTTAWA, Ontario March 8, 2017 — Jamaica-born, Sergeant (Retired) Joan Buchanan, who joined the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in 1987 and was assigned as a Resource Management Systems (RMS) clerk, has many memorable moments to ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today, said while there have been significant strides in gender equality in the region, there’s still a need for much more to be done. In a message marking ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York March 6, 2017 (CMC) – The United Nations office dedicated to disaster risk reduction, today, called for urgent support to improve disaster risk management in Haiti, following a damage assessment that shows the country lost US$2.7 ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, March 6, 2017 (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago government said, today, it would pay an estimated TT$2.5 billion (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) in arrears to public servants at the end of March, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 6, 2017 (CMC) – President Tsai Ing-wen is to visit the Caribbean later this year, amid concerns that the country’s relations with some Caribbean allies have become “unstable”, Foreign Minister David Lee said, today. Taiwan has relations ...

By Lakshmi Puri IPS Guest Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York March 6, 2017 (IPS) — Yayi Bayam Diouf became the first woman to fish in her small rural fishing village in Senegal despite initially being told by the men in ...