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OPINION: Testing Time for Tourism
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISO, Sep 08 (IPS) - It is testing time for global tourism. The ongoing political conflicts across North Africa, compounded by military action in the Middle East, Ukraine and Afghanistan, and the spread of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa have put to the test the ability of international tourism to continue to grow amidst crises.
Developing Nations Set to Hit Back at New York City Banks
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 08 (IPS) - The Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing countries, is hitting back at New York City banks that arbitrarily cancelled the accounts of more than 70 overseas diplomatic missions, leaving ambassadors, senior and junior diplomats and non-diplomatic staff without banking facilities.
New Anti-Discrimination Law Could Worsen Situation for Georgia’s LGBT Community
- Inter Press Service
TBILISI, Sep 08 (IPS) - Georgia's LGBT community is sceptical that recently-introduced anti-discrimination legislation hailed by some rights groups as a bold step forward for the former Soviet state will improve their lives any time soon.
War Over but Not Gaza’s Housing Crisis
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Sep 08 (IPS) - "When the shelling started, I gathered up my family and headed for what I though was a safe place, like a school, but then that became overcrowded and lacked sanitation, so we ended up in the grounds of the hospital."
Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Sep 06 (IPS) - Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments, social organisations and multilateral bodies meeting at the Fifth Latin American Conference on Drug Policies.
OPINION: ISIS Primarily a Threat to Arab Countries
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 05 (IPS) - Millions of words have been written about the rise, conquests, and savagery of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, and Boko Haram in Nigeria. Both have declared an "Islamic State" in their areas although Boko Haram has not claimed the mantle of a successor to the Prophet Muhammad as ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has done in Greater Syria. The two groups are the latest in a string of terrorist organisations in the past two decades.
Global Summit to Focus on Eradication of Trillion Dollar Corruption
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - New analysis suggests that developing countries are losing a trillion dollars or more each year to tax evasion and corruption facilitated by lax laws in Western countries, raising pressure on global leaders to agree to broad new reforms at an international summit later this year.
World’s Last Remaining Forest Wilderness at Risk
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 05 (IPS) - The world's last remaining forest wilderness is rapidly being lost – and much of this is taking place in Canada, not in Brazil or Indonesia where deforestation has so far made the headlines.
When a Disaster Leaves Bathrooms in its Wake
- Inter Press Service
CAR NICOBAR, India, Sep 05 (IPS) - When the 2004 Asian Tsunami lashed the coasts and island territories of India, one of the hardest hit areas were the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI), which lie due east of mainland India, at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
Human Rights and Gender Equality Vague in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 04 (IPS) - With the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion, civil society actors in Europe are calling for a firmer stance on human rights and gender equality, including control of assets by women.
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