News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 803
What is Missing on the Global Health Front?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 21 (IPS) - The last World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva (23-28 May) discussed the manifold global health crises that require urgent attention, and adopted resolutions to act on many issues. We are currently facing many global health related challenges, and as such multiple actions must be taken urgently to prevent these crises from boiling over.
Asia’s Rising Prosperity, Climate Change Taking Toll on Food Security
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Jun 21 (IPS) - Asia's economic growth over the last decade has been relentless, bringing with it a rising population and an influx of people from the countryside to the cities in search of prosperity. These trends are not expected to abate.
Mixed Progress at UN on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 (IPS) - Nearly 10 years after UN members adopted a progressive Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), progress implementing the convention has been mixed, even at the UN itself, say disability advocates.
Civil Society in Latin America Campaigns Against Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jun 20 (IPS) - Civil society organisations from Chile, Mexico and Peru are pressing their legislatures and those of other countries not to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Fences and Walls: A Short-sighted Response to Migration Fears?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 20 (IPS) - European nations from which millions once left to escape hardship and hunger – Greece, Ireland, Italy - are today destinations for others doing the same.
Xenophobia: ‘Hate Is Mainstreamed, Walls Are Back, Suspicion Kills’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 20 (IPS) - "Hate is becoming mainstreamed. Walls – which tormented previous generations, and have never yielded any sustainable solution to any problem – are returning. Barriers of suspicion are rising, snaking through and between our societies – and they are killers…"
Children of a Lesser God: Trafficking Soars in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 20 (IPS) - Sunita Pal, a frail 17-year-old, lies in a tiny bed in the women's ward of New Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Her face and head swathed in bandages, with only a bruised eye and swollen lips visible, the girl recounts her ordeal to a TV channel propped up by a pillow. She talks of her employers beating her with a stick every day, depriving her of food and threatening to kill her if she dared report her misery to anybody.
A Courageous Life After Escaping the Lord's Resistance Army
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - Evelyn Amony's bravery not only helped her survive and escape captivity from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), but has made her an advocate for thousands of abducted women and children who face long term consequences after returning home.
What If Turkey Drops Its “Human Bomb” on Europe?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 19 (IPS) - Will the rapid--though silent escalation of political tensions between the European Union and Turkey, which has been taking a dangerous turn over the last few weeks, push Ankara to drop a "human bomb" on Europe by opening its borders for refugees to enter Greece and other EU countries?
Majority of Vulnerable Refugees Will Not Be Resettled in 2017
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) - Only a small percentage of the world's most vulnerable refugees will be resettled in 2017, according to new figures released by the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) this week.
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