Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 264
Australia’s Forgotten Asylum Seekers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 04 (IPS) - As the focus of Australian politics shifts away from refugee and asylum-seeker policies, the government avoids accountability for inhumane actions.
Indigenous Communities Head Towards Energy Self-Sufficiency in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
USPANTÁN, Guatemala, Jul 03 (IPS) - Because the government has never provided them with electricity, indigenous communities in the mountains of northwest Guatemala had no choice but to generate their own energy.
Paraguay Moves Towards Sustainable Commodities
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jul 02 (IPS) - Silvia Morimoto is UNDP Resident Representative in Paraguay
The statistics are alarming. By 2050, the world will require an estimated 60 percent growth in agricultural production to meet the food demand of a population of close to 9 billion people.
Financialization Undermines Real Economy
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Jul 02 (IPS) - The relationship between finance and the real economy is arguably at the root of the contemporary economic malaise. Unlike earlier acceptance of simple linear causation, recent recognition of a curvilinear relationship between finance and economic growth, implying ‘diminishing returns', has important implications.
Unseen and Unsafe: Violence Against Women within Migrant Families
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - Refugee and migrant women often face inescapable violence in the home. And the potential for intimate forms of violence is exacerbated by humanitarian crises and job insecurity.
Could the Election of Qu Dongyu as FAO´s General-Director be a Turning-point for Sustainable Agricultural Development?
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jul 01 (IPS) - Agriculture is the bedrock of sedentary human civilization, without it we would have no governments or nations. It was food surplus generated by agriculture that enabled people to live in cities and form regimes able to organize food production in such a manner that some community members could engage in other activities than direct food production and thus give rise to the ideologies, techniques and goods which now constitute and govern our existence.
Kenya’s March Towards a Demographic Dividend by Investing in Health and Partnering with the Health Sector from the Netherlands Visiting Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 01 (IPS) - H.E. Frans Makken is Ambassador of the Netherlands to Kenya
Demographic dividend is a term which is increasingly preoccupying discussions among development economists and the donor community in general in Kenya. The term refers to countries with the greatest demographic opportunity for development and those that are ushering in a period in which the working-age population has good health, quality education, decent employment and a lower proportion of young dependents. Smaller numbers of children per household generally lead to larger investments per child, more freedom for women to enter the formal workforce and more household savings for old age. When this happens, the national economic payoff can be substantial, and this is the demographic dividend.
Is there a Co-Relation Between Human Development & SDGs?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - Pedro Conceição is Director, UN Development Programme's Human Development Report*"People are the real wealth of nations," began the first Human Development Report (HDR). That 1990 report marked a turning point in the global development debate.
India's Criminal Justice System is Failing Victims of Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 28 (IPS) - Divya Srinivasan is South Asia Consultant at Equality NowEarly in 2018, India was shaken by the horrific details surrounding the abduction, gang rape, and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua, a district in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
A Roadmap for Children as Victims, not Terrorists
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - The feeling in the air at a recent meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was one of compassion and benevolence.
The focus was on children as Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs), a subject that everyone at the panel discussion argued is delicate and politically sensitive.
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