News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 591
Transforming Society, Financialization Destroys Social Solidarity
- Inter Press Service
PENANG and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 04 (IPS) - Finance has not stopped at dominating the real economy. The tentacles of finance have reached into significant, if not most parts of society.
Gerald Davis characterises modern society, where finance is dominant, as a ‘portfolio society', in which aspects of social life have been securitized and transformed into a kind of capital or investment to be managed.
We Won’t Achieve Gender Equality Until We Address the Lack of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Malawi, Jun 04 (IPS) - Mercy Masoo is Country Director, WaterAid Malawi
Giving birth is a life changing moment for women. It can be - when women have a safe and caring environment, positive and empowering - a moment to find a previously untapped inner strength.
The World Has Lost Its Compass
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 03 (IPS) - The terrible feeling I had on waking up and seeing the Italian voting results at the recent European elections was that my country was suddenly full of strangers. How could the majority of Italians reconfirm a government which has been the most inefficient in history, quarrelling on everything every single day and looking with total indifference to the looming problem of how to establish the next budget without clashing with the European Union or squeezing Italian citizens? Its irresponsible debate on the Italian finances has now led to a spread (difference of value) of 290 points with the Germans.
Limited Knowledge of Plant Biosecurity Increases Biological Threats
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - The plant-life on the Pacific Islands is currently under threat as protections against diseases and pests are left in the hands of under-trained personnel with limited facilities.
Watch Out: Your Money Is Being Used to Destroy the World!
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jun 03 (IPS) - How governments spend taxpayers money to subsidise fossil fuels that cause deadly air pollution – A reminder to mark 5 June World Environment Day.
Perhaps the most direct way to introduce this tough issue is what the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated just one week ahead of the 5 June World Environment Day, which focuses this year on air pollution, caused chiefly by the use of fossil fuels both in transport, industry and even household cooking, heating, etc.
We Can’t Halt Extinctions Unless We Protect Water
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 31 (IPS) - Claudia Sadoff is Director General, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Global biodiversity loss has reached critical levels. One million species of plants and animals are now estimated to be at risk of extinction. The window for action is closing, and the world needs to urgently take note.
Lost in Globalisation
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 31 (IPS) - Do not panic! This is not about telling you how bank accounts and pension funds have been used to finance the production of nuclear bombs (they call it ‘investment').
Water Research & Education Needs to Flow Towards Developing World
- Inter Press Service
HAMILTON, Canada, May 30 (IPS) - Colin Mayfield, is Senior Advisor, Water Education and Knowledge Management at United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), and Hamid Mehmood is a Senior Researcher*.
Post-secondary education relevant to the global water crisis is concentrated in wealthy countries rather than the poorer, developing places where it is needed most.
A Call for Concrete Changes to Achieve a More Gender Equal World
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, May 29 (IPS) - Princess Sarah Zeid is a member of UNHCR's Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement, and Protection, a Special Advisor to the World Food Programme on Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition, and Chair of the Newborn Health in Humanitarian Settings Initiative.
On the eve of the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver June 3-6, Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan interviewed Dr. Olfat Mahmoud, a Palestinian refugee and women's rights advocate.
These Aliens Are Here to Stay (And They Are Dangerous)
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 29 (IPS) - No, no, no. Nothing to do with what US and Europe's far-right fanatics now use to vociferate, saying once and again that "migrants come here to destroy our democracy, our civilisation, and our life-style".
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