Global Issues
News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 1202
El Salvador Restores Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
BARRA DE SANTIAGO, El Salvador, Nov 05 (IPS) - Carlos Menjívar has been ferrying people in his boat for 20 years in this fishing village in western El Salvador surrounded by ocean, mangroves and wetlands, which is suffering the effects of environmental degradation.
OPINION: Global Governance - We Need to Bring Civil Society to the Table
- Inter Press Service
MONTREAL, Nov 04 (IPS) - A poorly understood phenomenon is quietly but effectively shaping the daily lives of all citizens sharing this planet.
Journalists Silenced as Killers Walk Free
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 04 (IPS) - A new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) shows that nine out of 10 cases of journalist killings go unpunished.
Ending Violence Against Women – A Global Responsibility
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 04 (IPS) - Addressing violence against women, in all of its forms, is a global imperative and should be one of the international community's top priorities, including in forthcoming intergovernmental processes, such as the post-2015 development agenda.
Inside Pakistan's Untapped Fishing Industry
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Nov 04 (IPS) - If you want to know what ‘sea traffic' looks like, just go down to the Karachi Harbour. Built in 1959, the dockyard houses close to 2,000 big and small boats anchored in the grey sludge at the edge of Pakistan's southern port city, which opens into the Arabian Sea.
Middle-Income Kenya Still in Need of Aid
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 04 (IPS) - Coffee farmer Gabriel Kimwaki from Nyeri County, in central Kenya, is considering "giving up farming altogether".
Global Tax-Evasion Crackdown Sidestepping Poorest Countries
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 04 (IPS) - While a major global campaign to cut down on tax evasion is picking up momentum, anti-poverty advocates say the initiative overlooks the world's poorest countries.
U.N. Favours Changeover from Landlocked to ‘Land-linked’
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Nov 04 (IPS) - Some 440 million people are living in 32 countries that are among the world's poorest, most of them least developed, and geographically isolated from world markets not only because they have very few commodities to export, but also because they have no direct territorial access to the sea.
Dirty Energy, Dirty Tactics
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 03 (IPS) - "Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we're seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We can't prevent a large scale disaster if we don't heed this kind of hard science."
Mobile Payments to Determine Future of Global Economy
- Inter Press Service
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Nov 03 (IPS) - Half the global working age population does not have a bank account, yet six billion people have access to a mobile phone. Ninety percent of people in developing countries have mobile phone subscriptions and 84 percent have signed up to mobile broadband subscriptions.
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