Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1120
Broad Coalition Pledges to Cut "Super Greenhouse Gases"
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international coalition has agreed to begin working towards domestic regulation aimed at reducing the use of HFCs, compounds commonly used as refrigerants but referred to as "super greenhouse gases" for their particularly negative impact on global warming.
Q&A: "We Need a Decisive Win Against Polio"
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 03 (IPS) - Siddharth Chatterjee has served as the chief diplomat, head of strategic partnerships and international relations at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world's largest humanitarian network, since June 2011.
Brazilian Hydroelectricity Giant Promotes Biogas
- Inter Press Service
FOZ DO IGUAÇU, Brazil, Sep 03 (IPS) - The massive Itaipú hydroelectric dam, shared by Brazil and Paraguay, has now become a model for the micro-scale production of an energy source that is not only clean, but also helps to reduce pollution and promote local development: biogas.
Sri Lanka Cornered Over Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 03 (IPS) - That it would be a visit fraught with diplomatic tension was undoubted. Navanetham ‘Navi' Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was into the third day of her week-long visit from Aug. 25 to Aug. 31 to Sri Lanka when her entourage broke into animated discussion.
Splintered Damascus Holds Its Breath
- Inter Press Service
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sep 03 (IPS) - "Life is almost normal in the centre of Damascus," local resident Hisham says from the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Bab Touma. "Only the occasional noise of artillery on the outskirts reminds me that we are at war."
Migrant Rights Defenders in Mexico Face Growing Pressure
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 02 (IPS) - "No one can stop me from working for migrants' rights, because no one is above my own conscience," said Mexican Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde.
Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 02 (IPS) - When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.'s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world's most critical finite resources.
Cuba’s Stray Dogs Have Their Champions
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 02 (IPS) - The stray cat's fur was burned and its eyes were hanging from its sockets when pensioner Neida González found it on a street in the Cuban capital. The cat, which she named Grenlito, now lives with her eight other pets.
‘Biggest Guns’ to Control Somalia’s South
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 02 (IPS) - Somali clan leaders say that an Aug. 27 agreement between the government and only a few leaders from the country's three southern Jubba regions, which aims to resolve the ongoing dispute over who controls the area, creates more problems than it solves.
Disarmament Deal Takes Two Steps Back
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Sep 02 (IPS) - A Kremlin compromise on nuclear disarmament looks as far away as ever as Russian president Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama use their countries' strained relations to bolster their own domestic political agendas, experts say.
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