Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 911
Opinion: Paying Real Tribute to All Victims of War and Conflict
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 18 (IPS) - The international community will have a great opportunity to jointly advance on the world peace agenda when a United Nations working group established to negotiate a draft U.N. resolution on the right to peace meets from Apr. 20 to 24 in Geneva.
Tribunal Ruling Could Dent “Monster Boat” Trawling in West African Waters
- Inter Press Service
Instead of Scaling up Funding for Education, Major Donors Are Cutting Back
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 18 (IPS) - Despite commitments by the international community to achieve universal primary education by 2015, funds for education have been decreasing over the past ten years, according to a report released Friday by the global advocacy campaign ‘A World at School'.
Foreign Fighter Recruits: Why the U.S. Fares Better than Others
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 17 (IPS) - More than 25,000 fighters seeking to wage "jihad" or an Islamic holy war have left home to join terrorist networks abroad, according to a United Nations report released earlier this month.
U.N. Struggles to Cope with New Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is providing humanitarian aid to over 50 million refugees worldwide, is struggling to cope with a new crisis in hand: death and destruction in Yemen.
Women Farmers in Patagonia Rewrite Their History in Chile
- Inter Press Service
VALLE SIMPSON, Chile, Apr 17 (IPS) - More than 100 women small farmers from Chile's southern Patagonia region have joined together in a new association aimed at achieving economic autonomy and empowerment, in an area where machismo and gender inequality are the norm.
Sexual Violence in Conflict "The Contemporary Moral Issue" Says United Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17 (IPS) - Impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence in war must end, said Zainab Hawa Bangura, the Special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on sexual violence in conflict, who presented to the U.N. Security Council the Secretary-General's 2015 report on the issue on April 15.
Fears Grow for Indigenous People in Path of Massive Ethiopian Dam
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 17 (IPS) - A United Nations mission is due to take place this month to assess the impact of Ethiopia's massive Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project on the Omo River which feeds Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, lying mostly in northwest Kenya with its northern tip extending into Ethiopia.
Investigation Tears Veil Off World Bank’s “Promise” to Eradicate Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 (IPS) - An expose published Thursday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners has revealed that in the course of a single decade, 3.4 million people were evicted from their homes, torn away from their lands or otherwise displaced by projects funded by the World Bank.
1.7 Billion Dollars Needed to Improve Ebola-hit Countries' Health Care, Says Oxfam
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 (IPS) - The international humanitarian charity Oxfam is calling on the World Bank and major donors to raise 1.7 billion dollars to improve poor health systems in Ebola-affected countries and strengthen community networks for preventing another epidemic.
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