Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 436
Latin America’s Social Policies Have Given Women a Boost
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, May 08 (IPS) - Although they do not specifically target women, social policies like family allowances and pensions have improved the lives of women in Latin America, the region that has made the biggest strides so far this century in terms of gender equality, although there is still a long way to go.
Prepaid Meters Scupper Gains Made in Accessing Water in Africa
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 08 (IPS) - While many countries appear to have met the U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, rights activists say that African countries which have taken to installing prepaid water meters have rendered a blow to many poor people, making it hard for them to access water.
The Biggest Lessons Nepal Will Take Away From This Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, May 08 (IPS) - There has never been any doubt that Nepal is sitting on one of the most seismically active areas in South Asia. The fact that, when the big one struck, damages and deaths would be catastrophic has been known for years.
Opinion: South-South Cooperation Vital for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, May 08 (IPS) - Sustainable development is central to a range of key discussions at the United Nations and elsewhere at the moment.
Living the Indigenous Way, from the Jungles to the Mountains
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 08 (IPS) - In the course of human history many tens of thousands of communities have survived and thrived for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Scores of these largely self-sustaining traditional communities continue to this day in remote jungles, forests, mountains, deserts, and in the icy regions of the North. A few remain completely isolated from modern society.
Unifying Transmission from North to South Means Cheaper Energy in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, May 07 (IPS) - Chile expects to have a more efficient and stable electricity market, with a more steady - and above all, less expensive – supply, when the country's two major power grids are interconnected over a distance of more than 3,000 km.
Falling Oil Prices Trigger Initial Economic Gains for Pacific Islanders
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, May 06 (IPS) - The recent dramatic fall in world oil prices, with Brent crude plummeting from a high of 115 dollars per barrel in June last year to around 47 dollars in January 2015, is beginning to benefit Pacific Islanders who are seeing lower prices for fuel and energy.
Sri Lanka’s Development Goals Fall Short on Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, May 05 (IPS) - When Rosy Senanayake, Sri Lanka's minister of state for child affairs, addressed the U.N. Commission on Population and Development (CPD) in New York last month, she articulated both the successes and shortcomings of gender equality in a country which prided itself electing the world's first female head of government: Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike in July 1960.
Costa Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, May 05 (IPS) - Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country's rivers.
Families in Quake-Hit Nepal Desperate to Get on With Their Lives
- Inter Press Service
KAVRE DISTRICT, Nepal, May 05 (IPS) - Just over a week after a dreadful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, displaced families are gradually – but cautiously – resuming their normal lives, though most are still badly shaken by the disaster and the proceeding aftershocks that devastated the country.
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