Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 447
Development and Taxes, a Vital Piece of the Post-2015 Puzzle
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (IPS) - Public funds are vitally important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making corporate tax avoidance trends a pressing issue for post-2015 Financing for Development discussions.
‘Water Man of India’ Wins Stockholm Water Prize
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (IPS) - A conservationist known as ‘The Water Man of India' has been named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for 2015.
Opinion: Sustainable Development Goals Could Be a Game-Changer for Water
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (IPS) - Suppose money was being deposited and withdrawn from your bank account, but you didn't know how much. And suppose you knew you had bills coming due, but you didn't know when or what amount would be required to cover them.
Women in the Philippines at the Forefront of the Health Food Movement
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 20 (IPS) - When Tinay Alterado's team from ARUGAAN, an organisation of women healthcare advocates, visited Eastern Visayas, a region of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, they noticed that the relief and rescue sites were flooded with donated milk formula, which nursing mothers were feeding to their babies in vast quantities.
Opinion: The Exceptional Destiny of Foreign Policy
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 19 (IPS) - For a long time, citizens of the United States have firmly believed that their country has an exceptional destiny, and continue to do so today even though their political system has become totally dysfunctional.
U.N. Envoy Pushes for Safer Schools Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - Speaking from the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, the U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, defined 2015 as the year to end violations of the rights of the children worldwide.
Why Investors Should Think Twice before Investing in Coal in India – Part 2
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 19 (IPS) - In November last year, India's power minister Piyush Goyal announced that he plans to double coal production in India by the end of this decade and, in an effort to enhance production, the Indian government has started a process of auctioning coal blocks.
World’s Richest One Percent Undermine Fight Against Economic Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - The growing economic inequalities between rich and poor – and the lopsided concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the world's one percent - are undermining international efforts to fight global poverty, environmental degradation and social injustice, according to a civil society alliance.
In Thrall to the Mall Crawl and Urban Sprawl
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 19 (IPS) - There's little argument about the basic facts: It's ugly (think strip malls and big box stores). It's not very convenient (hours spent behind the wheel to get to work). And it wreaks havoc on the natural environment (lost farmland and compromised watersheds).
Nobel Peace Laureate Calls for Global Human Compassion to Combat Child Slavery
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has called for globalised human compassion to combat the global and persistent problems of child labour and child slavery.
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