News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1062

  1. Caribbean Walks the Talk on Clean Energy Policy

    - Inter Press Service

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jan 28 (IPS) - Despite having an abundance of wind and sunshine, Caribbean countries have found that going green is requiring significant shifts in policy, and most importantly, significant financing.

  2. Moroccan Women Porters – Heroism and Hardship on the Border

    - Inter Press Service

    MÁLAGA, Spain, Jan 28 (IPS) - Before sunrise, a Moroccan woman waits her turn at the pedestrian border control separating her country from the Spanish city of Melilla. Hours later she crosses over, takes up an 80-kilo bundle of merchandise and carries it back to her country, for a payment of less than six dollars.

  3. Q&A: Africa’s Tremendous Progress Amid War and Famine

    - Inter Press Service

    ADDIS ABABA, Jan 28 (IPS) - The issue of peace and security, particularly in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, are expected dominate the discussions at the African Union's (AU) semi-annual summit being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week.

  4. U.S. Tightens Development Safeguards

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (IPS) - Development activists and rights watchdogs are applauding a surprise strengthening of environmental and human rights policies governing U.S. development funding and overseas financial assistance.

  5. Resistance Over GMOs as South Africa Pushes Biotechnology

    - Inter Press Service

    MASOPANE, South Africa, Jan 27 (IPS) - On a family farm tucked between the rolling hills of Masopane, 40 km outside of South Africa's capital, Pretoria, 35-year-old Sophie Mabhena is dreaming big about her crop of genetically modified (GM) maize.

  6. Switching Off Market ‘Reforms’ in the Philippines

    - Inter Press Service

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    MANILA, Jan 27 (IPS) - After two decades of aggressively privatising its public services, the Philippines is beginning to realise the cost of mindless market reforms.

  7. New Writing on a School Wall

    - Inter Press Service

    KFAR QARA’, Northern Israel, Jan 27 (IPS) - Welcome to Bridge Over the Wadi primary school, one of five bi-national schools under the ‘Hand-in-Hand' initiative of the Centre of Jewish-Arab Education in Israel. The centre strives to bring children from both communities to learn together in Hebrew and Arabic in the hope that they'll bridge the divide between the two peoples.

  8. South Sudan's Ceasefire Far from Conclusive

    - Inter Press Service

    ADDIS ABABA, Jan 26 (IPS) - When representatives of the warring factions of South Sudan signed an agreement to end hostilities at a luxury hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday, Jan, 23, fervent applause and some high-pitched ululations erupted from the audience.

  9. When the Suicide Pilots Said Goodbye

    - Inter Press Service

    CHIRAN (Japan), Jan 26 (IPS) - They were known as the Kamikaze who swooped down on enemy ships with their bomb-laden planes – with the pilots inside. A museum here is now planning to register the last letters of Japan's famed World War II suicide bombers as a Unesco Memory of the World document. The museum is calling these records "symbolic" of the country's commitment to peace.

  10. Argentine Activists Win First Round Against Monsanto Plant

    - Inter Press Service

    CORDOBA, Argentina, Jan 25 (IPS) - Residents of a town in Argentina have won the first victory in their fight against biotech giant Monsanto, but they are still at battle stations, aware that winning the war is still a long way off.

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