News headlines in April 2017, page 2

  1. Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.

  2. Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America

    - Inter Press Service

  3. New Generation Rallies to Climate Cause in Trinidad

    - Inter Press Service

    PORT OF SPAIN, Apr 26 (IPS) - As two environmental activist groups in Trinidad and Tobago powered by young volunteers prepare to ramp up their climate change and sustainability activism, they are also contemplating their own sustainability and how they can become viable over the long-term.

  4. World Bank Must Stop Encouraging Harmful Tax Competition

    - Inter Press Service

    SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 26 (IPS) - One of the 11 areas that the World Bank's Doing Business (DB) report includes in ranking a country's business environment is paying taxes. The background study for DB 2017, Paying Taxes 2016 claims that its emphasis is "on efficient tax compliance and straightforward tax regimes".

  5. IPS Journalists Who Perished in the Line of Duty

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 26 (IPS) - In the politically-risky world of professional journalism, news reporters are fast becoming an endangered species.

  6. Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?

    - Inter Press Service

    Apr 26 (IPS) - Taha avoids giving his last name to journalists, but not out fear of the Sudanese government, whose harassment he fled in 2015.

  7. Worrying about Fake News Has Become All the Rage

    - Inter Press Service

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    ROME, Apr 26 (IPS) - Rogue interests, perhaps even foreign, are said to be trying to interfere with the electoral process in the U.S. and European Union members. Senior government officials glibly endorse what they themselves call "alternative facts" and even openly describe the media as their enemy.

  8. No Trace of the Nicaraguan Interoceanic Canal

    - Inter Press Service

    PUNTA GORDA/BRITO, Nicaragua, Apr 25 (IPS) - Less than three years from the projected completion in Nicaragua of a canal running from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, there is no trace of progress on the mega-project.

  9. How to Undermine Democracy – Curtail Civil Society Rights

    - Inter Press Service

    JOHANNESBURG, Apr 25 (IPS) - Recent elections and referendums in a growing number of countries from Turkey to the USA and beyond are producing leaders and policies, which directly threaten some of the core principles of democracy.  In an increasing number of established and fledgling democracies, we see ruling parties violating the fundamental freedoms to speak-out, rally behind a cause and get involved in a social movement.

  10. No One is Left Behind

    - Inter Press Service

    ROME, Apr 25 (IPS) - In the context of global development, ‘no one is left behind' brings with it a powerful message. It emphasizes progress- one that is inclusive, fair, integrated and empowering. The phrase ‘No one is left behind' is mentioned some five times in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted by all governments at the United Nations in 2015. The Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet, peace and prosperity. It has globally agreed 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 ambitious targets, and should be achieved within the next decade ‘to end poverty and hunger everywhere; to combat inequalities within and among countries; to build peaceful, just and inclusive societies; to protect human rights and promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; and to ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.'

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