Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1071
When Calamity Strikes, Think Local
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jan 03 (IPS) - More than a month after Cyclone Phailin battered Orissa, tribes in the eastern Indian coastal state are still feeling its wrath. Besides the damage to their homes and hearths, it has also meant a loss of their traditional food.
Saving Children From Loggers2
- Inter Press Service
Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us”
- Inter Press Service
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, Córdoba, Argentina, Jan 03 (IPS) - The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina's central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.
More Vehicles in Latin America - More Deaths
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jan 03 (IPS) - The family of Susana Suárez, a 35-year-old Venezuelan dentist, are still in shock over her death in a traffic accident in May. She and a friend were killed on their way back from the beach, and became just two more of the 130,000 victims who died on Latin America's roads in 2013.
Pakistan’s Polio Campaign Runs Into Taliban Wall
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 03 (IPS) - The Taliban are proving to be a huge stumbling block for Pakistan as the South Asian nation - one of only three remaining polio endemic countries in the world – tries to fight the crippling disease.
The Scramble for Kenya's Kibera Slum
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 03 (IPS) - Controversy continues to brew here over ownership of the land under Kibera slum, one of Africa's largest.
Hospitality, Agriculture Firms Vulnerable to Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 03 (IPS) - Shareholders are calling on 15 U.S.-based multinational corporations to ensure that their global supply chains are not facilitating human rights abuses, particularly labour and sex trafficking.
Seedpods Worth More than Gold in Argentina’s Arid North
- Inter Press Service
GUANACO SOMBRIANA, Argentina, Jan 02 (IPS) - Tired of the drought driving away their men and killing their livestock, the women of Guanaco Sombriana, a town in northern Argentina, have found a new source of income by using the seedpods of native trees that up to now merely provided shade in this arid landscape.
Keeping the Grass Greener for African Plant Breeders
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Ghana, Jan 02 (IPS) - For the few plant breeders in Africa like Vivian Oduro, working for an international research institution is an obvious choice, with prestige and benefits any agricultural scientist would find hard to decline.
A Complicated Calculus in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 01 (IPS) - Hours after forces ostensibly under Riek Machar's command claimed victory in the strategic South Sudanese city of Bor, the former vice-president and once again rebel commander announced he would – after a week of postponement – send an envoy to upcoming peace dialogues in Addis Ababa with regional leaders and representatives of his one-time superior and comrade, President Salva Kiir.
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