Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1048
A Matter of Life and Death
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) - If you or some family members or friends suffer from cancer, hepatitis, AIDS, asthma or other serious ailments, it's worth your while to follow the negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and other similar bilateral trade agreements.
Women Turn Potatoes into Gold in Zimbabwe’s Cities
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 09 (IPS) - Shyline Chipfika, 26, is one of thousands of Zimbabwean women in urban centres who have struck gold by growing potatoes. And a lot of their success has to do with an import ban.
Gazans Find Tuneful Resistance
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 09 (IPS) - Like almost everyone else in Gaza, these six are angry about the Israeli-imposed blockade and the resulting misery. Except, that they are expressing their anger through music –without the music itself sounding angry.
Pakistani Women Hit Hurdles in Medical Profession
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, United States, Mar 08 (IPS) - On one of her many visits to Pakistan recently, Sarah Peck, director of the U.S.-Pakistan Women's Council, spent some time talking to young women medical students in Pakistan. She was struck by their passion and commitment -- and by the hurdles they face.
Congress Pressured on Multinational Corporate Accountability
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 08 (IPS) - Advocacy and accountability groups are urging the U.S. Congress to enact new mechanisms that would allow it to hold multinational corporations accountable for rights infringements abroad.
Dangerous Combo: Violence in Pregnancy and HIV in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 07 (IPS) - When Phumzile Khoza* came to the central Johannesburg antenatal clinic on a chilly day in August 2013, she was feeling on edge. Not about the medical procedures – she already had two children – but about talking to the nurse.
Sun Shines on Forest Women
- Inter Press Service
ANANATAGIRI, India, Mar 07 (IPS) - Chintapakka Jambulamma, 34, looks admiringly at a solar dryer. It's the prized possession of the Advitalli Tribal Women's Co-operative Society- a collective of women entrepreneurs that she leads.
Tahrir Square Finds a GrEEK Neighbour
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Mar 07 (IPS) - The group of buildings near Tahrir Square could be modern campus-style office space anywhere. It's hard to believe that just outside the heavy steel gates lies downtown Cairo, the noisy, polluted and now troubled heart of Egypt.
Women Still Walk Two Steps Behind in Arab World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (IPS) - In much of the Arab world, women's participation in the labour force is the lowest in the world, according to the United Nations, while women in politics is a rare breed both in the Middle East and North Africa.
New Economic Crisis Engulfing Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 06 (IPS) - Several developing countries are now being engulfed in new economic crises as their currency and stock markets are experiencing sharp falls, and the end is not yet in sight.
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