Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1041
Organic Farmers Fight the Elements in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
SEROPÉDICA, Brazil, Mar 29 (IPS) - Brazilian farmer Isabel Michi's day starts before dawn, when she goes out to the organic garden on her small five-hectare farm that she runs with help from her husband and occasionally their children.
Fighting Now Brings Disease
- Inter Press Service
DAMASCUS, Mar 29 (IPS) - For just that moment, the refugees in Yarmouk camp in Damascus made news. After months of facing starvation and death in the shadows of the Syrian civil war came packets of food and aid in January - with cameras in tow.
Sahel Food Crisis Overshadowed by Regional Conflict
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Mar 28 (IPS) - Still not enough is being done to improve the food emergency in Africa's Sahel Region as conflict and instability continue to exacerbate any response towards improving the situation where one in eight people suffer from food insecurity.
20 Years On - Rwanda Uses Genocide Reconciliation to Boost Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Mar 28 (IPS) - It's almost 20 years now since Sylidio Gashirabake, a Hutu, was a perpetrator in Rwanda's genocide. It's also almost 20 years since his neighbour, Augustin Kabogo, a Tutsi, lost his sister and family in the violence. But today, both men work side-by-side in their joint business venture in Kirehe district in southeastern Rwanda.
To Spy To Live
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 28 (IPS) - "If you want to live and receive medical treatment, you have my number, so you can call me and agree to my request. You will then get medical help, and survive." The request, the patient said, was from an Israeli intelligence officer looking to recruit him in exchange for treatment.
Drugmakers Agree to U.S. Ban on Livestock Antibiotics
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 27 (IPS) - Pharmaceutical companies have overwhelmingly agreed to new U.S. government guidelines aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics in the raising of livestock, new data shows.
In Venezuela, a Popular Uprising, or Class Warfare?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27 (IPS) - This much is known: at least 33 people are dead and 461 have been wounded. The rest – questions of who, why and what next for Venezuela – has largely been a matter of speculation.
Ugandans Fight for the Right to Access Their Own Medical Records
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 27 (IPS) - Dressed in a white dress with black polka dots and pink and red carnations, white knee-high socks and matching patent shoes, Babirye, recently celebrated her second birthday.
Look Who’s Helping Olive Ridley
- Inter Press Service
GANJAM, India, Mar 27 (IPS) - When Olive Ridley sea turtles nest on the beach in his village, little Warthy Raju can barely wait for the millions of hatchlings, with their three-inch shells and thumb-sized heads, to scramble out.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Middle Class - Growing or Disappearing?
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Mar 27 (IPS) - "I'm middle class. Definitively," Sonia Anoh, a young and independent 30-year-old Ivorian tells IPS. Anoh has a master's degree, earns 1,470 dollars a month working in marketing, lives alone, owns a car and is now shopping for a home.
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