Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1005
Amid Scepticism, U.N. Trumpets Successes in Cutting Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 07 (IPS) - With 17 months before the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their targets by the December 2015 deadline, the United Nations is trumpeting its limited successes - but with guarded optimism.
Child Migrants Flee Central American Crisis
- Inter Press Service
IRAPUATO, Mexico, Jul 07 (IPS) - In early May, the Irapuato Migrants' House, in the centre-west Mexican state of Guanajuato, took in a group of 152 Garifuna Afro-Caribbean people from Honduras. Sixty of them were children.
India's Unholy Mess
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jul 07 (IPS) - One of the first things that Narendra Damodardas Modi did after being anointed as the Indian prime minister on May 26 was to set up an exclusive ministry (Ganga Rejuvenation) under Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti to clean up the country's national river, the Ganges.
At the Crucial Nexus of Water and Energy
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 07 (IPS) - Global institutions are still in the learning phase when it comes to successfully managing water and energy in an integrated manner as part of the quest for sustainable development.
OPINION: Fighting Killer Diseases Is Essential in the Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 07 (IPS) - Undeniably, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) helped lift specific health concerns onto the global agenda.
Cuba-United States – Something Is Moving
- Inter Press Service
Single Mothers Battle on in Former War Zone
- Inter Press Service
VALIPUNAM, Sri Lanka, Jul 07 (IPS) - The village of Valipunam, 322 km north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, occupies one of the remotest corners of the country's former war zone. The dirt roads are impossible to navigate, there are no street lights, telephone connections are patchy and the nearest police post is miles away, closer to the centre of the battle-scarred Mullaitivu district.
Salvadoran Peasant Farmers Clash With U.S. Over Seeds
- Inter Press Service
JIQUILISCO, El Salvador, Jul 05 (IPS) - Under a searing sun, surrounded by a sea of young maize plants, Gladys Cortez expresses her fears that her employment in the cooperative that produces seed for the Salvadoran government may be at risk, if United States companies achieve participation in seed procurement.
Burundian Women Tops in Service Delivery But Need Greater Management Role
- Inter Press Service
BUJUMBURA, Jul 05 (IPS) - As Burundi heads towards the 2015 general elections, and despite a quota of 30 percent women's representation in parliament, women in this southeast African nation feel that they are yet to have a significant say in the management of their country.
Lack of Toilets Keeps Women Out of Politics
- Inter Press Service
MALLAMPETA, India, Jul 04 (IPS) - Nine months after she was elected head of her village council, 36-year-old Krupa Shanti has overseen some significant changes in this rural outpost of Mallampeta, 570 km away from Hyderabad, capital of the southeastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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