Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1109
Disabled Make Do with Scraps from the Aid Table
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - Amidst the incomprehensible suffering that followed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, international aid agencies rushed to provide services to the displaced and injured.
From Toilet to Tap for Water Scarce City
- Inter Press Service
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa, Oct 01 (IPS) - In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the municipality's sewage and purify it to drinking quality standards.
People Pressure Piles up to Cleanse the Philippines
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Oct 01 (IPS) - Under the reformist leadership of President Benigno Aquino III who has placed "good governance" initiatives at the heart of his administration's agenda, the Philippines has enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic revival and political stability.
Egypt Paying a Price for ‘Cheap’ Labour
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 01 (IPS) - Egyptian workers who mobilised during the 2011 uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak have used the past two and a half years to organise into unions, press for labour reforms, and strike for better wages and working conditions.
Push for Transparency in U.S.-Mexico Drilling Agreement
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (IPS) - As lawmakers here prepare to take up legislation that would green-light a U.S.-Mexico agreement on oil-and-gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, development and rights groups are urging them to reject a proposal that would exempt involved companies from new disclosure requirements.
/CORRECTED REPEAT/Healthcare Loses Support in Somalia
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 30 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia's Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are dwindling at an alarming rate. The Medicines Are Fake, the Illnesses Real
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Sep 30 (IPS) - Reports of fraudulent medicines in the south-west Pacific island states of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea have drawn attention to the need for more public awareness of the lethal trade and its tragic consequences.
Weakening Al-Shabaab Finds New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
Climate Change Report “Gives No Reason for Optimism”
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 28 (IPS) - Amidst rumours that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that each of the last three decades has been warmer than any preceding decade since 1850.
Weakening Al-Shabaab Seeks New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 27 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
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