Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1112
Ladakh Invites New Scarcities
- Inter Press Service
LADAKH, India, Sep 24 (IPS) - The Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken for granted the breathtaking beauty of its landscape, the purity of the cold mountain air, and the sweet taste of water in its streams.
From Tanzania to Brazil in the Hold of a Ship
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 24 (IPS) - Ornela Mbenga Sebo, a young Congolese woman, escaped in 2011 from a rebel camp in Tanzania where she was being held as a slave and stowed away in the garbage bay of a merchant ship, with no idea where it was headed.
Nairobi Attack Exposes Flawed U.S. Terror Policies
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region.
Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
- Inter Press Service
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, Sep 23 (IPS) - The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here.
Trinidad's Farmers Outpaced by Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Sep 23 (IPS) - Dalchan Singh, a root crop farmer and board member of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, says the past year has seen drastic changes in the weather of this twin-island Caribbean nation.
Israel Silent on Chemical Weapons
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Sep 23 (IPS) - "Does Israel have chemical weapons too?" is the question posed by the U.S. publication Foreign Policy, citing a newly uncovered CIA document from 1983 which alleged that Israel is likely to have developed such weapons.
Terrorists Rob Somalia of Healthcare
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 23 (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.
Boats of Hope Head for Australian Rocks
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 22 (IPS) - It was a decision based on simple sums. Ananda, 28, from Weligama in the southern Sri Lankan district Matara decided to risk it all boarding a boat to Australia last year because he never had enough money.
Robin Hood Activists Take Aim at Wall Street
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 21 (IPS) - Five years after the 2008 world financial crisis and two years after the Occupy movement it triggered, U.S. critics of the financial sector are coalescing around the idea of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.
It's Afghanistan Again in a Turkish Town
- Inter Press Service
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey, Sep 21 (IPS) - People run back home at dusk, just when the shooting intensifies. To Sha Mehmed the experience is familiar. He was 11 when he left his native Afghan village to settle in this small Turkish town on the border with Syria.
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