Global Issues
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PHILIPPINES: These Shots Target AIDS
- Inter Press Service
A unique campaign in the Philippines is using stylised online photos to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. Fashion and conceptual photographer Niccolo Cosme first initiated Project Headshot Clinic in 2007 as a way of merging profile photos online and advertising.
Listening to ‘Appalled Economists’
- Inter Press Service
A paper written by a handful of French economists criticising the economic policies applied in the European Union to deal with the sovereign debt crisis that followed government bailouts of banks and other financial institutions in 2007 has become a manifesto supported by many worldwide.
Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid
- Inter Press Service
Despite a global economic crisis, worsening employment prospects for immigrants and hardening views on immigration in the U.S. and Europe, migrant workers are sending more money home, according to a World Bank report on global remittances released Wednesday.
Poverty and Racism Fuel HIV/AIDS Epidemic in U.S.
- Inter Press Service
On World AIDS Day, all eyes are fixed on the global south, where a preventable HIV/AIDS epidemic across Asia, Africa and Latin America has infected almost 33 million people.
No Agriculture, No Deal
- Inter Press Service
Zambian dairy farmer, Effatah Jele, does not believe in farming luck but in pragmatism because of climate change.
US-EU: Economic Crisis Threatens Global Recession, U.N. Warns
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations Thursday reaffirmed a lingering fear haunting Western capitals: the world economy is teetering on the brink of another major downturn and heading towards a global economic recession.
OP-ED: Can Finance Provide the Crown Jewels of a Durban Climate Accord?
- Inter Press Service
As climate talks get underway in Durban, South Africa this week, progress on a Green Climate Fund is one of the hottest, most contentious tickets in town. It is also one of the great prizes to be won.
Kyoto Protocol and Climate Fund on Shaky Ground
- Inter Press Service
Just a few days into the United Nations climate change negotiations, deep divides on the conference’s key issues have arisen. Serious doubts about the adoption of the Green Climate Fund have cropped up, while a second period of the Kyoto- Protocol looks more and more unlikely.
HEALTH-DR CONGO: The Konzo Still Threatens Women and Children
- Inter Press Service
Nadine Mbwol suffers from konzo, an epidemic paralytic disease that affects the lower body. 'I lost my marriage because of this disability,' she says sadly.
Aid Not Enough to Fight AIDS
- Inter Press Service
Billions of people are marking yet another World AIDS Day - this one themed 'Getting to Zero', for zero AIDS-related deaths, zero new infections, and zero stigma and discrimination.
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