Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 392
Women “Water Friends” Script a Success Story
- Inter Press Service
MAMNA, India, Mar 08 (IPS) - Prema Bai, 58, bends her head and pushes hard her wheelchair on the village road. In the early afternoon, the village of Mamna appears almost deserted although it is home to 742 families and is located in Uttar Pradesh - India's largest and most populated state. Thanks to a severe drought, every man and woman under 50 has fled Mamna in recent weeks, leaving behind the elderly and women with very young children. "They thought we were like cattle, a burden in this hard time because we only eat but yield no returns," says Bai whose two sons and their wives also migrated to Agra -- a city 255 km away -- to work in a brick kiln.
African Staple Plantains at Risk of Same Diseases as Bananas
- Inter Press Service
Kampala / New York, Mar 07 (IPS) - Anna Gamusi, has been growing ‘matooke' - plantains - for over 20 years. She originally learnt how to grow them in her home village of Busolwe in Eastern Uganda, but says that they are no longer grown there.
Panama’s Expanded Canal Faces a Challenging Scenario
- Inter Press Service
PANAMA CITY, Mar 04 (IPS) - When the new locks of the expanded Panama Canal begin operations, they will do so amidst numerous challenges, because of the storm clouds hanging over the global economy, especially China. But local authorities and experts are not worried about the possible impact on the expanded canal.
Border Restrictions Violate 1951 Refugee Convention
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorated "Zero Discrimination Day" on March 1, there was an implicit commitment by the 193 member states to abhor all forms of discrimination – including against women, minorities, indigenous people, gays and lesbians and those suffering from AIDS.
Big Question for the UK on the European Union
- Inter Press Service
LUND, Sweden, Mar 02 (IPS) - The British have a problem. A referendum con continuing membership of the European Union scheduled for June may lead to Brexit- Britain heading for the exit. Anybody with any knowledge of Europe's war-like history knows this would be totally self-defeating.
Central America Makes Uneven Progress in Clean Energy
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Mar 01 (IPS) - Over the last decade, Central America has managed to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels for the production of electric power, while expanding coverage. But the progress made by each country varies widely.
World’s Rural Poor Need Social Protection, Says UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 29 (IPS) - The success of the UN's post-2015 development agenda is predicated on one underlying theme: no one should be left behind – and certainly not the world's rural poor --in the fight to eradicate hunger and poverty by 2030.
Groundwater Governance in Andhra Pradesh
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 29 (IPS) - India is the largest user of ground water in the world. But reliance of this overexploited resource has reached its limits in many parts of the country. Nowhere is this more evident than in the drought-prone districts of Rayalseema, uplands of Prakasam, Krishna, East-West Godavari, parts of Nellore, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). Forty per cent of the state's irrigation needs are met through groundwater. In the drought-prone Rayalseema region – which comprises Chittoor, Anantapur, Kurnool, Prakasam and Kadapa districts -- dependence on groundwater for irrigation is particularly high. The water crisis is also most severe in this region.
Mexico’s Chinampas – Wetlands Turned into Gardens – Fight Extinction
- Inter Press Service
XOCHIMILCO, Mexico, Feb 27 (IPS) - David Jiménez grows two kinds of lettuce and other fresh produce on his "chinampa" or artificial island just under one hectare in size in San Gregorio Atlapulco, on the south side of Mexico City.
Europe: The Schengen Agreement In Danger
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 26 (IPS) - Exclusion of Greece from the European free travel zone established by the Schengen Agreement is pending. The European Commission has ruled that the Athens government has "seriously neglected its obligations to control its own borders," and if the deficiencies are not corrected within three months, the other member states of the Schengen area may exclude it from the agreement.
Emma BoninoIn 2015, some 850,000 people seeking asylum and work in northern European countries passed through Greece, and the influx is continuing.
Powered by
