Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 926
Women Make Progress in Politics, But Glass Ceiling Remains Unbreakable
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a creature of the U.N.'s 193 member states and who serves at their will and pleasure, did not hesitate to fault 13 countries that kept women out of their national parliaments and governments in power.
Brazil – from the Droughts of the Northeast to São Paulo’s Thirst
- Inter Press Service
SÃO PAULO, Mar 10 (IPS) - Six million people in Brazil's biggest city, São Paulo, may at some point find themselves without water. The February rains did not ward off the risk and could even aggravate it by postponing rationing measures which hydrologists have been demanding for the last six months.
200 Million Fewer Women than Men Online
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Two hundred million fewer women have access to the internet than men, according to a report released Monday.
First the Taliban, then the Army, now Hunger: The Woes of Pakistan’s Displaced
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Mar 10 (IPS) - A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai refugee camp, about 35 km by road from Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
Renewable Energies in Latin America Weather Low Oil Prices
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Mar 09 (IPS) - Traditionally, falling oil prices have discouraged development of renewable energy sources, but clean energy is making steady progress in Latin America, according to regional experts.
Opinion: The World Sees Progress Against Undernutrition, but It's Uneven
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 09 (IPS) - In 2014, an estimated 805 million people – one in nine people worldwide – were estimated to be chronically hungry. All but 14 million of the world's hungry live in developing countries, i.e., 791 million are in developing countries, where the share of the hungry has declined by less than half – from 23.4 per cent (1990-1992) to 13.5 per cent (2012-2014).
Opinion: A Year of Progress for “Children, Not Soldiers”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) - One year ago, representatives of the last eight governments of the world named by the U.N. secretary-general for the recruitment and use of children in their security forces gathered at the United Nations in New York to declare they were ready to take the steps necessary to make their security forces child-free.
Bolivia’s School Meals All About Good Habits and Eating Local
- Inter Press Service
LA PAZ, Mar 07 (IPS) - A successful school meals programme that serves breakfast and lunch with Andean flavours to 140,000 students in La Paz gave rise to a new law aimed at promoting healthy diets based on local traditions and products in Bolivia's schools, while combating malnutrition and bolstering food sovereignty.
Congolese Citizens Forced to Pay for Police, Protection Services
- Inter Press Service
From the Mountains to the Sea, Timorese Women Fight for More
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (IPS) - In Timor-Leste, the gap between rich and poor is most keenly felt by rural women and children. But while women are working hard to help rebuild Timor-Leste, their contributions are not always recognised, in a country where men's narratives still heavily dominate.
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