Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1097
Domestics Join Forces to Put Their House in Order
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 29 (IPS) - "We have come together to join forces, to be heard, because we want to speak for ourselves," said Ernestina Ochoa, a Peruvian domestic worker, at the close of the founding congress of the International Domestic Workers Federation in the Uruguayan capital.
Cameroon’s HIV Message Misses Pregnant Teens
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Oct 29 (IPS) - With a wide smile Beatrice M.* says that she lives by the motto "life is short and beautiful — live it to the full." The 20-year-old, HIV-positive mother refuses to be defeated by her new circumstances.
Eye Disease Sweeps Pacific Islands
- Inter Press Service
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Oct 29 (IPS) - For generations, eye diseases have taken their toll on Pacific Island peoples. Now the first nationwide survey in the Solomon Islands of Trachoma, which can lead to irreversible blindness by early adulthood, is revealing the silent penetration of this disease in widely dispersed Melanesian rural island communities.
Swiss Knife Sharpened to Cut Bosses’ Pay
- Inter Press Service
BERN, Oct 29 (IPS) - Swiss voters will decide Nov. 24 on introducing a salary cap that would limit the wage spread in companies to 1:12. The economic lobby is nervous - success for the proposal in the referendum is not as unrealistic as once expected.
Ecuador-Colombia Settlement Won’t End Spraying
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Oct 28 (IPS) - The secrecy surrounding a friendly settlement in a case that Ecuador brought against Colombia in the International Court of Justice for damage caused by anti-drug spraying along the border has further angered those affected by the fumigation.
There are Solutions to U.S. Calamities
- Inter Press Service
MANASSAS, Virginia, U.S., Oct 28 (IPS) - Political terrorism failed. The House Republicans used voting in one chamber to put the livelihoods of millions of people inside and outside the U.S. at risk, for their own political goals. And made the mistake of most terrorists, non-state or state: when people suffer they will join us, against our enemy; to find out that people turn against the terrorists instead.
Syrians Under Siege Now in Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 28 (IPS) - Mahmoud Abu Yousef, 28, sits in one of the suburban subway stations of Egyptian capital Cairo selling socks. He had fled Syria with his wife and one-year-old child this February after his parents and three brothers were killed in the civil war that has been raging in his country since March 2011.
Caribbean Looks to the Sky for Water Security
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 27 (IPS) - A centuries-old system for ensuring water security is making a comeback in the Caribbean.
Taliban Waiting to Take Over from the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
Mangroves Help Guyana Defend Against Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, Guyana, Oct 26 (IPS) - Theola Fortune can recall how residents of Victoria would ridicule her and others every time they went into the east coast village to warn residents about the importance of mangroves and the need to protect them.
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