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PHILADELPHIA, July 14 (IPS) – Ask why so many Indian classrooms struggle, and the answers arrive in the language of audit: Too few trained teachers, too many vacancies, weak colleges of education and low accountability. Each of these is real, and each matters. Yet none of them explains a quiet confession a veteran teacher made to me, years into her career, holding a teacher training degree all the while. “Only this program”, she said, “made me realize what my prior training had left out”. The program she was referring to is a small teaching preparation program in Gurugram, North India called I Am A Teacher, or IAAT.

Read the full story, “A License Is Not a Teacher”, on globalissues.org →

KARACHI, Pakistan, July 14 (IPS) – A landmark Islamabad High Court ruling that recognised marriage as an economic partnership and awarded a divorced woman an equal share of assets acquired during marriage has triggered a legal and religious backlash, with Pakistan’s law ministry challenging the judgment before the Federal Shariat Court, a constitutional court empowered to determine whether laws and judicial rulings conform to the Qur’an and Sunnah.

Read the full story, “Landmark Ruling Could Redefine Divorced Women’s Property Rights in Pakistan”, on globalissues.org →

UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (IPS) – Despite the importance of international trade as an engine for economic growth and development, only fourteen of the twenty-two Arab states are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The remaining Arab states risk missing out on opportunities for greater integration into the global economy and the multilateral trading system facilitated by the WTO.

Read the full story, “Arab Regions Remain the Most Underrepresented in the Global Trade System”, on globalissues.org →

VATICAN CITY, July 13 (IPS) – More than eight decades after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered humanity into the nuclear age, the world is confronting another technological revolution whose consequences extend far beyond science and industry.

Read the full story, “From the Nuclear Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Can Humanity Build a New Architecture for Peace?”, on globalissues.org →

BENGALURU, India, July 13 (IPS) – For most individuals, the process of peace starts with the signing of a ceasefire or an agreement among politicians. However, those who live in regions experiencing violence understand that peace is made long before politicians meet at the negotiating table. Peace is created among communities by people who work everyday to ensure that no violence takes place, and that disputes are sorted out.

Read the full story, “Women Peacebuilders: The Missing Voices at the Negotiating Table”, on globalissues.org →

CIVICUS speaks about efforts to use the 2026 FIFA World Cup to highlight Mexico’s enforced disappearance crisis with Ana Enamorado, a Honduran national who continues to search for her missing son in Mexico, and founder of the Regional Network of Migrant Families.

Read the full story, “MEXICO: ‘Our Call for Justice for Our Missing Loved Ones Must Reach the World Just as World Cup Goals Do’”, on globalissues.org →

After thousands of buildings were destroyed in the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war, local teams and civil defense personnel continue the arduous and delicate mission to remove rubble and search for the remains of missing persons believed to still be buried under the debris of homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.

Read the full story, “‘We face a new ordeal’: Gaza’s search for the dead goes on”, on globalissues.org →

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, July 10 (IPS) – Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept through the world’s most densely populated concentration of refugee camps this week, killing at least 14 Rohingya refugees, most of them women and girls.

Read the full story, “Where did the Billion Dollar Funding for Rohingya Refugees Go?”, on globalissues.org →

UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (IPS) – Renewed attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz have intensified concerns over global energy markets along with supply chain disruptions, as the United Nations calls for an end to escalating hostilities within the Persian Gulf.

Read the full story, “Renewed Attacks on Strait of Hormuz Deepen Global Supply Chain Concerns”, on globalissues.org →

NAIROBI, July 10 (IPS) – At the 64th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) under the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany, the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) underscored the importance of ethically and equitably incorporating indigenous values and knowledge and local knowledge systems such as pastoralism into climate policies and actions ahead of the 31st Conference of Parties on climate change (COP31).

Read the full story, “Why Pastoral Production Requires Regional Coordination, Harmonised Policy”, on globalissues.org →