UN : After a rebound in 2021, global economic recovery is losing steam (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The global economic recovery hinges on a delicate balance amid new waves of COVID-19 infections, persistent labour market challenges, lingering supply-chain constraints as well as rising inflationary pressures, according to the United Nations.

Rights : Fully ready to kill, shockingly unprepared to save lives (PRIV)
(IPS, Madrid)
While absolutely ready to kill, with the biggest military powers spending in 2020 nearly two trillion US dollars on weapons, the world is shockingly unprepared to save the lives of millions of unarmed, innocent civilian victims of wars... and other man-made catastrophes.

Kenya : Domestic workers' doomed voyages to the Gulf (PRIV)
(IPS, Nairobi)
Distress calls from vulnerable Kenyan women in Saudi Arabia experiencing mistreatment and torture at the hands of their employers went from 88 in 2019/2020 to 1,025 just one year later.