Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1054
Website Gives Real-Time Snapshot of Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (IPS) - A new website launched Thursday will allow governments, businesses, civil society and private citizens to monitor near real-time loss and gain in forest cover in every country around the world.
Rising Prices Threaten to Increase Inequality in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 20 (IPS) - Argentine consumers have responded to calls on social networks to mobilise against price hikes that threaten the country's major advances towards poverty reduction and greater social equality.
Chagos Islanders ‘Will Not Give Up’ Fight to Return Home
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Feb 20 (IPS) - "The Marine Protected Area (MPA) created around the Chagos archipelago is a new obstacle that the British government has placed in our path to prevent us from going back to our homeland," claims Olivier Bancoult, leader of the Chagos Refugees Group (CRG).
U.N. Focuses on Faltering Goals: Water, Sanitation, Energy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 (IPS) - When the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their deadline in 2015, there will still be a critical setback: millions of people in the developing world without full access to safe drinking water, proper sanitation and electricity in their homes.
‘No Way Back’ for Kiev Protesters
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Feb 19 (IPS) - Bloody clashes that have left more than a score dead and more than a 1,000 injured in the Ukrainian capital could continue for weeks. Local people say there is now "no way back" for either side in what has become the worst crisis in the country's post-Soviet history.
Troika Becomes the Villain in a Greek Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Feb 19 (IPS) - A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Greece and other recession-hit European countries as they undergo harsh austerity measures in exchange for a bailout. At the heart of it is the Troika, say trade unions, civil society and rights activists.
Political Commitment, Not Just Aid, Needed for Saharawi People
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Feb 19 (IPS) - Volunteers are hard at work in an industrial warehouse in the Spanish city of Malaga, organising thousands of kilos of rice, sugar, lentils and oil to be shipped this February to Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, in the west of Algeria.
Hope for HIV Positive Teenagers in Northern Ghana
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Feb 19 (IPS) - With tears rolling down her cheeks, Zainab Salifu queued at the fevers unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital in northern Ghana. Earlier in the day, the 18-year-old had been diagnosed HIV positive.
Obama to Tighten Fuel and Emissions Rules
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (IPS) - In an effort to reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama on Tuesday directed his administration to develop new fuel efficiency and emissions standards for trucks within the year.
Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (IPS) - An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors.
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