Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 1126
U.S., China Talk Peace but Still Frenemies
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 21 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel welcomed Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan to the Pentagon Monday as part of Chang's four-day tour of U.S. defence compounds.
Swazi Chiefs Shut Women Out of Parliament
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Aug 21 (IPS) - Archaic and chauvinistic practices are being used to prevent Swazi women from taking part in the upcoming primary elections, despite the country having a constitution that guarantees their rights, says political analyst Dr. Sikelela Dlamini.
More Countries Turn to Faltering U.S. Prison Privatisation Model
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (IPS) - Countries in nearly every region of the world are continuing to turn to a U.S.-led model of prison privatisation despite mounting evidence that such systems are often neither cost-efficient nor able to provide adequate services.
Poor and Disabled When Disaster Strikes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 (IPS) - Upon first glance, the emergency checklist distributed in Haiti after the 2010 earthquakelooks like any other. Organised into key categories like water, sanitation and hygiene, and psychosocial support, the information is typical of the kind circulated for emergency response.
U.S. Task Force Urges Climate Change Preparations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (IPS) - The United States government is recommending new preparations aimed at protecting vulnerable communities from climate change-related disasters, a year after a major hurricane devastated swaths of the country's East Coast.
Little Islands Take On Australian Dominance
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (IPS) - A new Pacific islands forum will seek to challenge the dominance of Australia and New Zealand in a regional body. The new grouping's approach is being billed the ‘Pacific Way', and also the ‘green and blue' way for its commitment to environmentally sustainable oceans as well as land.
When Disaster Rains, Talk
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Aug 20 (IPS) - Gulam Rasul, chief meteorologist at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, was sure early this month that the second leg of the annual monsoon due in the latter half of the month was going to be bad. "Normally it peaks towards late August," Rasul told IPS.
Sustainable Technologies Safeguard the Soil in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 20 (IPS) - The furrows are hard to make out in fields of the Finca de Semillas, a farm on Havana's outskirts, because its administrators, Esmilda Sánchez and Raúl Aguilar, protect every centimetre of soil with mulch.
Southern Africa Shows the Way With Water
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (IPS) - Water remains a key component in development policy. And, as the Southern African Development Community discusses how best to develop the region, the effective management of watercourses will be key, says Professor Anthony Turton, one of the foremost experts on water policy in southern Africa and a trustee of the Water Stewardship Council of Southern Africa.
Media Law Hits Somali Journalists
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Aug 20 (IPS) - Somalia's journalists say that the government is not serious about reviewing the country's new, controversial media bill that requires them to reveal their sources, despite a series of recent consultations.
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