Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1046
Teen Pregnancy Rising in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Mar 14 (IPS) - She is only 17, but each morning is a reminder of her losses in life. As Pretty Nyathi* forces herself out of bed, feeds her baby, bundles him on her back and rushes to the market to buy vegetables to sell on the streets of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe she wishes her life were different.
IMF Urges Redistribution to Tackle Growing Inequality
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is wading strongly into the global debate over the impact of growing income inequality, offering a series of controversial findings that push back on long-held economic orthodoxy – of which the fund itself has long been a key proponent.
Caribbean to Forge United Front on Elusive Climate Finance
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Mar 13 (IPS) - Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, says the promises of money by the "biggest polluters in the world" for small island developing states (SIDS) like his to adapt to climate change are a mostly a "mirage".
OP-ED: Participation Is Key to Women’s Equality and Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 (IPS) - The largest annual gathering with special focus on issues which impact on women and thereby humanity as a whole is now taking place in New York.
Anti-Gay Law Will be Overturned Say Uganda’s Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Human rights campaigners who filed a recent legal petition against Uganda's draconian anti-gay law believe that they have a compelling case for its nullification.
Swiss Step Up Arms Exports, Peacefully
- Inter Press Service
BERN, Switzerland, Mar 13 (IPS) - Switzerland has eased its restrictions on arms exports - in order to save a few thousand workplaces. Critics fear that Switzerland's credibility as an international peace broker will now suffer.
Harkening Back to Dark Days in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) - On Oct. 16, 1993, Alerte Belance was abducted from her home and taken to Titanyen, a small seaside village used by Haiti's rulers as a mass grave for political opponents. There she received machete chops to her face, neck, and extremities. Despite her grave injuries, Belance was able to save herself by dragging her mutilated body onto the street and asking for help.
Heavy Rainfall Washing Out Honey Production
- Inter Press Service
DUMBARTON, St. Vincent, Mar 12 (IPS) - Allan Williams, 32, is an agriculture extension officer in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. But as a trained apiculturist, he has also been involved in beekeeping as a hobby for the past seven years.
South Africa Battles Drug-Resistant TB
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 12 (IPS) - Despite an increase in diagnosis times, South Africa is facing a growing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) burden as nationally there remains a large gap between the number of patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and those who start treatment.
Koreans Embrace Some Old Ways
- Inter Press Service
SEOUL, Mar 12 (IPS) - Old family bonds still seem to run deep in the South Korea of today. For evidence, one need only look at the yearning of the elderly to meet their long separated kin in North Korea during last month's historic family reunions.
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