Roderic Grigson was Asia Pacific Vice President for Novell, a global networking company, working in Melbourne Australia until he retired from corporate life to become a full-time writer. He worked at the United Nations Secretariat in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s as a technology innovations officer, serving in UN peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. He is the author of Sacred Tears, The Sullen Hills and After the Flames, a trilogy of thrillers set in war-torn Sri Lanka, and is currently working on his fourth book.
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Potential Opportunities and Challenges for the Middle East and Kurdistan The Media Line Staff
Potential Opportunities and Challenges for the Middle East and Kurdistan Under Biden’s US
As the Trump administration and the highly irregular policymaking process that characterised it came to an end, hopes for a new chapter in the relations between the United States and Kurdish political actors in the Middle East have risen.
The support the Kurds received from international powers was instrumental for protecting their hard-fought gains, but this support was often limited and shaped by the internationals’ immediate concerns. Though the Kurds proved to be loyal allies, on too many occasions, they were left alone to deal with hostile neighbouring states. This panel discussion will scrutinise the potential course in the US-Kurdish relations under the Biden presidency and seek to assess whether the current engagement pattern will continue, or a more coherent Kurdish policy will develo
A group of youths in Machinga, Malawi. During the COVID-19 pandemic, young people, especially young girls, are facing many challenges regarding their sexual and reproductive health. The world’s population of young people between the ages of 10 and 24 is at a historic high, with the majority nearly 90 percent living in the developing world. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS
With the COVID-19 pandemic adding complex layers of challenges to the issue of sexual and reproductive health for the youth, governments should prioritise documenting these effects for data collection purposes, Dr. Simon Binezero Mambo co-founder and team leader of the Youth Alliance for Reproductive Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, told IPS in an interview.
Yves here. The US press has spilled some pixels on the concern that the poor and minorities will have less access to Covid vaccines. That is particularly troubling since they are most exposed to Covid, both risk of contagion (high representation in front-line worker jobs, greater odds of living in crowded housing) and adverse outcomes, due to health/access to medical care being correlated with income. The US media has been far less interested in the fact that many poor countries will be in the back of the line in being able to procure Covid vaccines, and can’t afford to build costly cold chains for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA offerings.