Global Issues
News headlines for “Causes of Poverty”, page 960
Fishing for Peace in Korea
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (IPS) - Environmental problems, by their nature, don't respect borders. Air and sea pollution often affect countries that had nothing to do with their production. Many extreme weather events, like typhoons, strike more than one country. Climate change affects everyone.
As TPP Trade Talks Miss Third Deadline, Opponents Claim Momentum
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (IPS) - For the third year in a row, government negotiators for 12 Pacific Rim countries have missed an internal deadline to reach agreement on a controversial U.S.-led trade deal.
A Fair Climate Treaty or None at All, Jamaica Warns
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov 10 (IPS) - As the clock counts down to the last major climate change meeting of the year, before countries must agree on a definitive new treaty in 2015, a senior United Nations official says members of the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) "need to be innovative and think outside the box" if they hope to make progress on key issues.
Filipinos Take to the Streets One Year After Typhoon Haiyan
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Nov 10 (IPS) - People covered their bodies with mud to protest against government ineptitude and abandonment; others lighted paper lanterns and candles and released white doves and balloons to remember the dead, offer thanks and pray for more strength to move on; while many trooped to a vast grave site with white crosses to lay flowers for those who died, and to cry one more time.
Trapped Populations – Hostages of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Nov 10 (IPS) - Climate change is projected by many scientists to bring with it a range of calamities – from widespread floods, to prolonged heatwaves and slowly but relentlessly rising seas – taking the heaviest toll on those already most vulnerable.
Massachussetts Schools Welcome New Students Who Fled Danger
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 08 (IPS) - Pedro sought a safer life. He traveled to Somerville from Chalantenango, El Salvador on foot, by bus, car, and in the back of a tractor-trailer truck.
Why Our Food Systems Need to Be More Nutrition-Smart
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 08 (IPS) - "We are especially distressed by the high prevalence and increasing numbers of malnourished children under five years of age in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. Moreover, more than 2000 million people, mostly women and children, are deficient in one or more micronutrients..."
OPINION: Bringing More International Pressure to Bear on Wildlife Crime
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Ecuador, Nov 08 (IPS) - A surge in wildlife crime is fuelling criminal syndicates, perpetuating terrorism, and resulting in the loss of major revenues from tourism and industries dependent on iconic species while also endangering the livelihoods of the rural poor.
But this surge in wildlife crime is not only threatening iconic species, which include elephants, rhinos and tigers, but also lesser-known animals that are also on the brink of extinction.
More Economic Equality Brings Greater Political Polarisation in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 08 (IPS) - "If I had to choose today I would stay back home, I wouldn't come to look for work here," said Josefa Gomes, who 30 years ago moved from Serra Redonda, a small town in Brazil's semiarid northeast, to the city of Rio de Janeiro, 2,400 km away.
Responding to Climate Change from the Grassroots Up
- Inter Press Service
GUNTHORPES, Antigua, Nov 07 (IPS) - As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production.
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