Global Issues
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Bees and Silkworms Spin Gold for Ethiopia’s Rural Youth
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, May 16 (IPS) - Beekeeping and silkworm farming have long been critical cogs of Ethiopian life, providing food, jobs and much needed income.
Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council: Assessment & Way Forward
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, May 14 (IPS) - In my personal capacity as an academic from the Global South and a retired international civil servant, I undertook a study for the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue which was published in November 2014. This was at a time when I had no idea that I would later become a member of this elite group of Special Procedures Mandate Holder. The study is entitled "In Defence of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council: An alternative narrative from the South".
Justice for Berta Caceres Incomplete Without Land Rights: UN Rapporteur
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The murder of Honduran Indigenous woman Berta Caceres is only too familiar to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Increasing Economic Inequality Not Inevitable
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 13 (IPS) - Since the 1980s, the world has been moving once again to the greatest level of national level income inequalities observed in recorded human history. A study by the Credit Suisse Research Institute suggested that the income share of the rich has increased at the expense of the ‘middle class' in most of the world.
Progress of The World’s Least Developed Countries to be Reviewed
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - The United Nations will undertake a major review of progress made in the world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) later this month.
FAO’s Peace-Building Efforts Through Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 12 (IPS) - At the launching today, of the FAO-Nobel Peace Laureate Alliance for food security and peace, FAO's Director-General said that "peace and food security are inextricably linked – we cannot achieve one without the other. By integrating food security and peace-building initiatives, we can work together to ensure that hunger is neither a cause nor a result of conflict."
Breastfeeding Saves Lives But Can't Compete With Agressive Marketing
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 11 (IPS) - Despite its many lifesaving benefits breastfeeding still struggles to compete with the marketing used by the multi-billion dollar baby formula industry, according to a new report published this week.
OPINION: Greece, the Punching Ball of Germany
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 11 (IPS) - Greece is again in the media, because a new negotiation is due between the embattled country and its creditors. The North-South divide of Europe is coming back with force (while the East-West relationship is increasingly looking as beyond repair). The German minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schäuble , has come back with his peculiar view of the economy as a branch of moral and ethical discipline, and not as a reading of reality. He has asked the Greeks "to not get distracted" by the refugees crisis, and not forget their primary task, which is to pay their debt. The request is to cut 2% of the Gross National Product; in case there will not be a 3.5% budget surplus within 2018.
Widening the STI Net for Implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Bangkok, May 11 (IPS) - Investment in science, technology and innovation (STI) needs to be the backbone of productivity-led economic recovery and sustainable development. Despite significant increases in productivity over the past few decades, economic growth in developing economies of Asia and the Pacific has been primarily driven by factor accumulation. However, the average rate of productivity growth slowed between 2000-2007 and 2008-2014 by 65%, which has contributed to the economic slowdown and can undermine efforts to effectively pursue the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We must revive growth in productivity, one of the keys to which is a highly-skilled labor force.
Nobel Laureates Join Forces for Food Security and Stability
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 11 (IPS) - "Where food security can be a force for stability, we have to look to food and agriculture as pathways to peace and security. This is a great challenge, but one that we can meet together as we embark on achieving the 2030 Development Agenda." These were the words of FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva as he discussed the interplays between food security and peace in New York last March.
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