Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1118
Cuba Streamlines Public Health System
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 07 (IPS) - One challenge faced by the Cuban government, and a high priority for citizens, is improving the efficiency and sustainability of public health services, a constitutional right that the state is supposed to ensure for all.
U.S., Malaysia Skirmish over Free-Trade Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 07 (IPS) - Between concluding rounds of negotiations towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major U.S.-proposed free trade agreement, a divisive fight has heated up over the extent to which countries should be allowed to regulate the sale of foreign – potentially far cheaper – tobacco products.
Cuban Teenagers Overuse Abortion as Birth Control
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 06 (IPS) - In nearly all of Latin America, illegal abortion is a serious public health problem. But in Cuba, where abortion is legal, it is being overused by teenagers.
Somalia's Fractures Getting Hard to Heal
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 06 (IPS) - The system of government remains the biggest political obstacle in Somalia as key political players boycotted the government's current national conference to discuss this country's political future, according to Jaylani Mukhtar, a local academic based in capital Mogadishu.
Q&A: Room for Negotiation in Decisive Battle over the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
SÃO PAULO, Sep 05 (IPS) - Everything indicates that the decisive battle between harnessing hydropower and preserving the Amazon will play out in the Tapajós river basin in Brazil. At stake there are a potential of nearly 30,000 MW and a vital part of the Amazon rainforest.
Cameroonians ‘Dying’ for Fake Drugs
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Sep 05 (IPS) - When Francois Biloa fell ill with malaria, his family did what they had always done in the past – they gave him anti-malaria drugs and antibiotics bought from the local market. Only when his condition worsened and he became bedridden and fell unconscious, did his family take him to a local clinic in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé.
Pashmina Withers on the Roof of the World
- Inter Press Service
CHANGTHANG, India, Sep 05 (IPS) - The famed pashmina shawl that keeps the cold away – in style and at a price – could itself have become the victim of winter. Thousands of goats whose fine wool is weaved into pashmina have perished in extreme cold being associated with climate change.
Domestic Workers Emerge from the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international convention enters into effect on Thursday that could eventually extend labour rights to as many as 100 million domestic workers across the globe, a constituency that has historically been bypassed by national laws.
Newspapers Are Becoming the Toys of Billionaires
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 04 (IPS) - Few people today know that when the first news agencies were created in the 19th century, the French Havas and the British Reuters divided the world between themselves.
Military Given Full Powers to Fight Crime in Honduras
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Sep 04 (IPS) - Human rights defenders and members of the opposition in Honduras see a new elite military unit created to engage in policing as a drastic setback for the demilitarisation efforts that began two decades ago.
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