Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 934
Maimed by Conflict, Forgotten by Peace: Life Through the Eyes of the War-Disabled
- Inter Press Service
MANNAR, Sri Lanka, Feb 16 (IPS) - It is a hot, steamy day in Sri Lanka's northwestern Mannar District. Mid-day temperatures are reaching 34 degrees Celsius, and the tarred road is practically melting under the sun.
OPINION: Developing Economies Increasingly Vulnerable in Unstable Global Financial System
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 16 (IPS) - After a series of crises with severe economic and social consequences in the 1990s and early 2000s, emerging and developing economies have become even more closely integrated into what is widely recognised as an inherently unstable international financial system.
Millennium Development Goals: A Mixed Report Card for India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (IPS) - Despite being one of the world's fastest expanding economies, projected to clock seven-percent GDP growth in 2017, India – a nation of 1.2 billion – is trailing behind on many vital social development indices while also hosting one-fourth of the world's poor.
Keeping Food Security on the Table at U.N. Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 13 (IPS) - Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy.
Latin American Migrants Suffer Prejudice in Their Own Region
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 13 (IPS) - In the movie "A Day Without a Mexican", the mysterious disappearance of all Mexicans brings the state of California to a halt. Would the same thing happen in some Latin American countries if immigrants from neighbouring countries, who suffer the same kind of discrimination, went missing?
Israel’s Obsession for Monopoly on Middle East Nuclear Power
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 (IPS) - As the Iranian nuclear talks hurtle towards a Mar. 24 deadline, there is renewed debate among activists about the blatant Western double standards underlying the politically-heated issue, and more importantly, the resurrection of a longstanding proposal for a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Getting Bang for the Buck on New Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
COPENHAGEN, Feb 13 (IPS) - Right now, the United Nations is negotiating one of the world's potentially most powerful policy documents. It can influence trillions of dollars, pull hundreds of millions out of poverty and hunger, reduce violence and improve education — essentially make the world a better place. But much depends on this being done well.
Nepali Children in Dire Need of Mental Health Services
- Inter Press Service
SURKHET, Nepal, Feb 13 (IPS) - On the night of Aug. 14, 2014, 10-year-old Hari Karki woke up to his grandfather's loud yelling in the family's home in Paagma, a small village in east Nepal.
Cancer Locks a Deadly Grip on Africa, Yet It’s Barely Noticed
- Inter Press Service
Warming, Wildfires and Worries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 (IPS) - World leaders from government, finance, business, science and civil society are attempting to negotiate a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change at the upcoming 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference being convened in Paris in December.
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