http://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/537 2009-11-21T01:51:35-08:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpg © Inter Press Servicehttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/11/16/35242009-11-16T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Tens of thousands of Gazans living in tents and damaged homes face a wet, cold and miserable winter as Israel’s blockade of the coastal territory continues to prevent the importation of building and reconstruction material.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/11/11/34552009-11-11T00:00:00-08:00

<p>After a spell of sleeping rough at the railway station, Farid has a roof over his head, by way of a small room he shares with five other students.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/11/07/34262009-11-07T00:00:00-08:00

<p>Years ago, when Catalina Sánchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/11/02/33512009-11-02T00:00:00-08:00

<p>'Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat.'</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/10/30/33352009-10-30T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Global health and U.S. AIDS activists are hailing President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that the government will end a 22-year-old ban on the entry into the United States of HIV-positive visitors.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/10/28/32792009-10-28T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Arizona could become the first state in the U.S. to criminalise the very presence of undocumented immigrants.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/10/27/32722009-10-27T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has a Ph.D. in economics, though it may not have prepared him for the recent financial turmoil that beset his coastal country.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2009/10/23/32372009-10-23T00:00:00-07:00

<p>Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.</p>

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<p>Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas.</p>

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<p>Feng Danya studied foreign languages. She had hoped to be part of a growing local company and grow with them, she says. But her timing was wrong. She graduated in the summer of uncertainty for the global economy and many Chinese start-ups.</p>