News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 517
Coronavirus, New Threat for Mexican Migrant Workers in the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Apr 21 (IPS) - As the high season for agricultural labour in the United States approaches, tens of thousands of migrant workers from Mexico are getting ready to head to the fields in their northern neighbour to carry out the work that ensures that food makes it to people's tables.
Coronavirus: Six Key Factors Poor Countries Should Focus on
- Inter Press Service
IBADAN, NIGERIA, Apr 21 (IPS) - Since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic late last year in Wuhan, China, the global community has witnessed unprecedented policy responses to curtail, contain and control the disease. Many have proven to be successful. But others required critical context consideration.
The Theology of Pandemics
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 21 (IPS) - Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal is set in medieval Sweden, as the bubonic plague ravages the countryside. In one famous scene, a procession of zombie-like flagellants enters a village and interrupts a comic stage-show.
Covid-19: Brazil’s Bolsonaro trumps Trump
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 21 (IPS) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro appointed medical entrepreneur Nelson Teich his new health minister on 17 April. The businessman quickly echoed his boss' desire to resume business as usual regardless of its potentially lethal consequences.
Dying for a Better Life - How Rohingya Refugees Risk their Lives to Cross into Malaysia
- Inter Press Service
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 21 (IPS) - Last week almost 400 Rohingyas were rescued off the coast of Bangladesh after being at sea for two months after their boat failed to reach Malaysia. But the case is not a new one as each month thousands board boats from refugee camps in Bangladesh in an attempt to irregularly migrate to Malaysia.
Haunting Forest Spirits – is Mother Nature Striking Back?
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 20 (IPS) -
Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society's structure, its standard of living, and its political priorities. Epidemics are a mirror, they show who we really are: Our ethics, beliefs, and socio-economic relationships.
-- Frank Snowden 1How Pacific Women are Responding to Climate Change and Natural Disasters
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Apr 20 (IPS) - Women in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu are dealing with six crises currently – COVID 19, drought, scarcity of potable water, and volcanic ash, acid rain and sulphur gas as there are several active volcanoes on the island. But global women's rights organisations are collaborating with regional alliances in supporting local women.
BCG Vaccine Fighting Coronavirus in South Asia
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 20 (IPS) - Numerous studies in many parts of the world have linked the BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccination, widely used in the developing world with fewer Coronavirus cases. This is good news for countries that have universal BCG vaccination in tropical Asia and Africa.
Multilateralism Through Public-Private Partnerships Are Key to Flattening the COVID-19 Curve
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 17 (IPS) - The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that now is "a defining moment for modern society. History will judge the efficacy of the response not by the actions of any single set of government actors taken in isolation, but by the degree to which the response is coordinated globally across all sectors for the benefit of our human family."
On Watching Contagion: What Do We Learn?
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 17 (IPS) - Contagion is a 2011 film by US director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Che) that has proved very popular viewing during the first few weeks of the Coronavirus crisis. Set in a fictional global pandemic – modelled on the outbreak of a bat-borne Nipah virus identified in 1999 that killed around 100 people in Malaysia - the film is a tightly-written topical drama with a great castthat includes Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Ehle.
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