Global Issues
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Child Poverty in Spain Seen Through the Eyes of Encarni
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Nov 01 (IPS) - "I would like to have a big house, and I wish my family didn't have to go out and ask for food or clothes," Encarni, who just turned 12, tells IPS in the small apartment she shares with five other family members in a poor neighbourhood in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
Canada Accused of Failing to Prevent Overseas Mining Abuses
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (IPS) - The Canadian government is failing either to investigate or to hold the country's massive extractives sector accountable for rights abuses committed in Latin American countries, according to petitioners who testified here Tuesday before an international tribunal.
Better Water Management Needed to Eradicate Poverty
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Oct 30 (IPS) - It demands repetition: water is a precondition for all life. It keeps us alive – literally – while being a prerequisite for or integral part of most of our daily activities. Think hospitals without water, think farms, energy producers, industries, schools and homes without our most needed resource. All sectors, without exception, are dependent on water.
OPINION: From Almaty to Vienna, New Prospects For LLDCs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 30 (IPS) - Kazakhstan being the world's largest landlocked country, and also the ninth largest country in the world of more than 2.7 million square kilometres, hosted in 2003 in Almaty the First United Nations Conference on Landlocked Countries.
Crisis Fuelled Resurgence of Horse-Drawn Carriages in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 30 (IPS) - Up and down the streets of towns and cities in Cuba go horse-drawn carriages with black leather tops and large back wheels, alongside more simple carts, operating as public transportation.
OPINION: Rousseff Re-elected President – What Lies Ahead for Brazil?
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30 (IPS) - The tight race between incumbent President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil's Workers' Party and her opponent, Aecio Neves from the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) party, ended on Sunday, Oct. 26 with the re-election of Rousseff.
Fossil Fuels Won’t Benefit Africa in Absence of Sound Environmental Policies
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 30 (IPS) - Recent discoveries of sizeable natural gas reserves and barrels of oil in a number of African countries — including Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya — have economists hopeful that the continent can boost and diversify its largely agriculture-based economy.
OPINION: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future for Industrial Development
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Oct 30 (IPS) - As representatives of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), we are sometimes asked whether industrial development is still relevant to a world which many observers have claimed over the past decades to have entered the "post-industrial age". Our answer is always an emphatic "yes", shaped both by the evidence of history and current events.
They Say the Land is ‘Uninhabited’ but Indigenous Communities Disagree
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO/BALI, Oct 30 (IPS) - Disregarding the rights of indigenous people to their traditional lands is costing companies millions of dollars each year, and costing communities themselves their lives.
Decline Before Fall of Berlin Wall
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) - As the world marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the famous Berlin Wall leading to the reunification of the country and the end of the cold war, a little noted event occurred nearly two decades before the fall that ushered in a trend having profound consequences for the future of Germany as well as for Europe: German births declined below deaths.
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