Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 956
The Double Burden of Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 23 (IPS) - Not only do 805 million people go to bed hungry every day, with one-third of global food production (1.3 billion tons each year) being wasted, there is another scenario that reflects the nutrition paradox even more starkly: two billion people are affected by micronutrients deficiencies while 500 million individuals suffer from obesity.
Down With Sustainable Development! Long Live Convivial Degrowth!
- Inter Press Service
BUDAPEST/BARCELONA, Nov 22 (IPS) - For anyone who recently attended the Fourth International Conference on Degrowth in Leipzig, Germany, listening in on conference talk, surrounded by the ecologically savvy, one quickly noticed that no one was singing the praises of sustainable development.
Refugees Between a Legal Rock and a Hard Place in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Nov 21 (IPS) - Staring at the floor, Hassan, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee from Idlib in northwestern Syria, holds a set of identification papers in his hands. He picks out a small pink piece of paper with a few words on it stating that he must obtain a work contract, otherwise his residency visa will not be renewed.
Will Myanmar’s ‘Triple Transition’ Help Eradicate Crushing Poverty?
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Myanmar is never out of the news for long. This has been the case since a popular uprising challenged military rule in 1988. For over two decades, the country was featured in mainstream media primarily as one unable to cope with its own internal contradictions, a nation crippled by violence.
The Future of the Planet and the Irresponsibility of Governments
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 21 (IPS) - Less than a week after everybody celebrated the historical agreement on Nov. 17 between the United States and China on reduction of CO2 emissions, a very cold shower has come from India.
Proposal for International Anti-Corruption Court Seeing “Significant” Momentum
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - The key U.S. advocate of a proposal to create a multilateral body mandated to investigate allegations of political corruption says the idea is receiving significant interest from civil society, politicians and major business leaders.
Mexico’s Undead Rise Up
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS) - "Alive they were taken, and alive we want them back!"
Inequality in Mexico Is All About Wages
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS) - Sandra G. works Monday through Saturday in a beauty salon on the south side of Mexico City, where she earns slightly more than the minimum wage, which in this country is just five dollars a day.
OPINION: Israel’s Arabs: Marginalised, Angry and Defiant
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (IPS) - The recent killing of an Arab youth by the police in the Israeli Arab village of Kufr Kanna, outside Nazareth, the ongoing bloody violence in Jerusalem, and the growing tensions between the Israeli security services and the Arab community in Israel could be a dangerous omen for Israeli domestic stability and for the region.
Pakistani Sikhs Back in the ‘Dark Ages’ of Religious Persecution
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 20 (IPS) - Balwan Singh, an 84-year-old shopkeeper living in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is well past retirement age, but any illusions he may have had about living out his golden years in peace and security have long since been dashed.
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