News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 554
World’s Spreading Humanitarian Crises Leave Millions of Children Without Schools or Education
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 24 (IPS) - As massive protests escalated worldwide last month, millions of children walked out of schools to demonstrate against the lackadaisical response – primarily from world leaders --to the ongoing climate emergency resulting in floods, droughts, typhoons, heat waves and wildfires devastating human lives.
Nigerian Military Targeted Journalists’ Phones, Computers with “forensic search” for Sources
- Inter Press Service
ABUJA / NEW YORK, Oct 24 (IPS) - Hamza Idris, an editor with the Nigerian Daily Trust, was at the newspaper's central office on January 6 when the military arrived looking for him.
Insurance Scheme Offers Hope for Drought-stricken African Farmers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 24 (IPS) - A partnership between United Nations and African Union (AU) agencies will help African economies insure themselves against the droughts and other extreme weather events that plague the continent, organisers say.
Bangladesh's Climate Change Victims Safeguard the Sundarbans' Endangered Dolphins
- Inter Press Service
KHULNA, Bangladesh, Oct 23 (IPS) - October 24 is International Freshwater Dolphin Day. Last year Bangladesh celebrated the international day for the first time, but the country has been instituting policies and programmes for years to protect the Sundarbans — home of Asia's last two remaining freshwater dolphin species.
IPS Correspondent Rafiqul Islam travelled to Khulna to file this report. Israfil Boyati lives along the shoreline of the Bay of Bengal.In the past he used to catch fish in the canals and rivers of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest — one of the world's largest and a habitat to many endangered species, including the endangered Bengal tigers and freshwater dolphins.
Swiftly Ending Tobacco Epidemic Requires Government Action, Not Empty Promises
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Oct 23 (IPS) - New information published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows that action taken by just 11 countries – most of them low- or middle-income – has resulted in 20 million fewer adult tobacco users in 2017 compared with 2008. Seventy percent of the world's tobacco users live in low- and middle-income countries.
Europe Should Rethink Assumptions about African Migrants: UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) - Sub-Saharan African migrants who risk perilous sea crossings to Europe are often assumed to be illiterate, jobless chancers in desperate bids to flee stagnation and rampant corruption in their home countries. But a survey of some 2,000 irregular African migrants in Europe found them to be more educated than expected, while many of them were leaving behind jobs back home that paid better-than-average wages.
The Neoliberal Fuel to the Anti-Gender Movement
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Oct 22 (IPS) - The number of newly elected Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who oppose women's reproductive rights, gender equality, sexuality education, same sex marriage and the Council of Europe Convention on Violence Against Women (Istanbul Convention) stands at around 30 per cent.
Development Banks Needed to Finance Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Oct 22 (IPS) - Public or state development banking will be vital to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, argues UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2019 (TDR 2019).
Ongoing World Bank led efforts seek to leverage private finance via shadow banking by using public money to guarantee handsome returns managed by giant investment houses. Such financialization introduce new costs and risks to financing investments for sustainable development, decent work and renewable energy.
Solar Energy Transforms Villages in Argentina's Puna Highlands
- Inter Press Service
SANTA CATALINA/SUSQUES, Argentina, Oct 22 (IPS) - "On moonless nights it was very difficult to walk around this town," says Celia Vilte, a teacher from San Francisco, a highlands village of just 54 people in the extreme northwest of Argentina whose centre is not a town square but 40 solar panels, which provide one hundred percent of its electricity.
Private Finance and Agenda 2030: Way Off-Track
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 21 (IPS) - Four years ago, UN member states proclaimed their ambitions for development in a document named "Transforming Our World", also known as Agenda 2030.
Today, according to several assessments including of the UN's inter-agency task force on financing for development (FfD) transformation has fallen off-track. It has received too little money, political commitment and action to change the workings of the global economy. Agenda 2030 spells out the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needed to ‘transform our world'.
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