Global Issues
News headlines
Despite Conflict and COVID-19, Children Still Dream to Continue Their Education in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 12 (IPS) - As if four decades of war were not enough, then came the pandemic.
For each of the past five years, Afghanistan has been identified by the United Nations as the world's deadliest country for children and, despite progress made in peace talks between the government and the Taliban, child and youth casualties from the ongoing conflict continue to mount in 2020.
Trump Is Gone, But Trumpism Remains
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - Now it is clear that Joe Biden is the new president of the United States. It is unlikely that Donald Trump's legal manoeuvring will change the election results, as when a conservative Supreme Court in 2000 decided in favour of George Bush over Al Gore, who lost by 535 votes.
Peacekeeping is a Double-Edged Sword
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Nov 11 (IPS) - UN peacekeeping dangerously overlooks the reality that peace operations have both unintended and negative consequences. Any intervention into the politics and culture of a community is bound to create tensions between local practices and foreign peacebuilding practices.
Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy Faces an Unceremonious Burial
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 11 (IPS) - The ouster of Donald Trump from the US presidency last week may well be the dawn of a new era for multilateralism – and perhaps for a besieged United Nations— after nearly four years of misguided political rhetoric emerging from the White House.
The Covid Pandemic: Broadening the Discourse
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov 10 (IPS) - SARS-CoV-2, the corona virus that causes COVID-19, has been spreading exponentially across the world over the last ten or so months. As of November 6th, according to the Center for Systems Science at Johns Hopkins University, there have been 49,195,581 cases of COVID-19, including 1,241,031 deaths.
Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 (IPS) - The World Bank has finally given up defending its controversial, but influential Doing Business Report (DBR). In August, the Bank "paused" publication of the DBR due to a "number of irregularities" after its much criticized ranking system was exposed as fraudulent.
Q & A: Escalating Tensions in Ethiopia adds to Tenuous Refugee Setting
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 10 (IPS) - Already reeling from conflict, extreme weather events and growing displacement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, escalating tensions in Ethiopia's Tigray region have placed the country on the brink of civil war and many are looking to Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to avert a potential humanitarian disaster.
How Did Trump Get this Far?
- Inter Press Service
Nov 09 (IPS) - To believe that Biden's triumph is the end of the drama that has unfolded since January 2016 is an example of a mirage with fatal consequences. Pretending that those more than 70 million voters who have followed Trump to the end will disappear from the map on January 20 with the inauguration of Biden and Harris reveals a blindness to how much America has changed in recent generations.
Q&A: How Desert Dust Storms Supply Vital Nutrients to the Oceans
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 09 (IPS) - When sand and dust storms (SDS) rage in the Sahara Desert, more than 10,000 km away in the Caribbean Sea the very same storms have a range of effects on the 1,360 species of shorefish that populate the waters there.
From Paraguay to Italy: Development at All Costs
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Nov 09 (IPS) - I am speaking with Gladys and Raúl about civic space in Paraguay, when Raúl suddenly tells me about the fires. Thick smoke has reached the capital Asunción where he is based. In October, Paraguay became Dante's Inferno.
Powered by
