Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 907
Q&A: Comprehensive Ban on Nuclear Testing, a Stepping Stone to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) - With the four-week-long review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) underway at the United Nations, hopes and frustrations are running equally high, as a binding political agreement on the biggest threat to humanity hangs in the balance.
Campaign Against Glyphosate Steps Up in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
Opinion: Continuing the Centennial Work of Women and Citizen Diplomacy in Korea
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague.
Caribbean Stakes Out “Red Line Issues” for Paris Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Apr 28 (IPS) - When the international climate change talks ended in Peru last December, the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a political and economic union comprising small, developing, climate-vulnerable islands and low-lying nations, left with "the bare minimum necessary to continue the process to address climate change".
Anti-Foreigner Discrimination ‘Fostered in South African Schools’
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - A practice of denying admission to South African public schools of children without visas or whose parents are refugees from other African countries is creating a foundation for the current rash of xenophobia, critics of the practice say.
European Biofuel Bubble Bursts
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 28 (IPS) - Ten years of debate in the European Union over the detrimental effects of the demand for biofuels for transport on food prices, hunger, forest destruction, land consumption and climate change have come to an end.
Expo 2015 Host City Promotes Urban Food Policy Pact
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Apr 28 (IPS) - How can we provide healthy food for everyone, without threatening the survival of our planet? This is the fundamental issue at the centre of Expo 2015 – which has ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life' as its central theme – and a huge challenge for cities.
Chaos Grows in Burundi as President Defies Advice to Step Down
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, overriding objections to an ill-advised third term, now faces a growing popular movement to oust him after his term ends this coming June.
Cash-Strapped Latin American Countries Turn to China for Credit
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 28 (IPS) - Angolans are generally grateful for China's participation in the reconstruction of their central African country, in spite of the fact that some of the roads and buildings built by Chinese firms are of poor quality, and mainly Chinese labourers have been hired rather than local workers.
Opinion: Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realising Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Our world is out of balance. It is both wealthier and more unequal today than at any time since the Second World War.
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