Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1059
Not Enough Money to Bring Peace to CAR
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 04 (IPS) - There are growing concerns that the massive funding crisis for peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) will jeopardise any prospect of restoring stability to the country.
Pakistan Caught Between Talking and Fighting
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 04 (IPS) - Whether to make war or peace with the Taliban has become a dilemma for the Pakistani government.
Advocacy Groups Split on Republican Immigration Guidelines
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 04 (IPS) - Pro-immigration reform advocates here are seeking to capitalise on new federal momentum on the issue after conservative lawmakers ended months of dithering late last week and released an initial set of principles that they would be interested in pursuing in broader negotiations.
Moral Monday Protests Inspire Truthful Tuesdays
- Inter Press Service
SPOKANE, Washington, Feb 03 (IPS) - Moral Monday, the populist movement in North Carolina that saw a diverse coalition of thousands of progressive activists descend upon the state legislature, is now spreading throughout the U.S. South.
Prosecution of Forced Sterilisations in Peru Still Possible
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Feb 03 (IPS) - Shelving the case of the forced sterilisation of more than 2,000 women in Peru during the Alberto Fujimori regime was a surprise move by the prosecutor in charge. What happened? An IPS investigation found that legal avenues to pursue justice have not been exhausted.
Dalit Women Face Multiplied Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Feb 03 (IPS) - Maya Sarki, a resident of Belbari in eastern Nepal, was returning home one summer evening last year when she was attacked. She was forced down on the ground and her attacker attempted to rape her.
Chileans, Peruvians Unperturbed by State Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 03 (IPS) - Juan González and Luis Monsalve come from different backgrounds, but have much in common. González, a 40-year-old Peruvian migrant who has lived for the past eight years in Santiago, and Monsalve, a 63-year-old Chilean, agree that border conflicts never benefit ordinary people.
HIV On a Dangerous Threshhold in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 02 (IPS) - Four thousand HIV infections in a population of 20 million should not be a difficult figure to manage. But experts in Sri Lanka say social customs and strict laws are hindering them from carrying out prevention and awareness campaigns among high-risk groups.
Protesters Resist an ‘Indian Fukushima’
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 01 (IPS) - Activists opposed to India's plans to massively increase civilian nuclear power production are aghast that a plan for an Indo-Japanese nuclear cooperation deal is gaining pace even while Japan is struggling to cope with the fallout of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Greater Transparency Urged for U.N.'s South Sudan Mission
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 01 (IPS) - As South Sudan's fragile ceasefire threatens to unravel, human rights groups are calling on the U.N.'s mission there to make public its human rights reporting, a step they say will help lay the groundwork for reconciliation that never took place following independence in 2011.
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