Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 574
Sunshine Gets Slowly More Energetic in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 26 (IPS) - On top of a small wooden cabin in Norton, a dormitory town outside the capital of Zimbabwe, is a solar panel that Silvester Ngunzi uses to light up his household.
Mideast and Africa Still Holdouts on Women's Rights
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) - Gender equality around the world has increased dramatically over the past half-century even though the vast majority of countries continue to restrict women's economic development in at least one way, the World Bank reports this week.
Poverty Declines as Inequality Deepens
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - As world leaders from 193 countries evaluate the successes and failures of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) during high-level meetings and special events here, the United Nations claims that extreme poverty worldwide has been cut in half.
Sponsor a University Student in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Sep 25 (IPS) - Adopt a tree. Adopt a polar bear. Sponsor a child in a poor country. The concept has caught on in Spain's troubled academic system and now people and companies can sponsor a university student.
TransBrasil Could Boost Integration in Rio de Janeiro
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 25 (IPS) - The TransBrasil bus rapid transit system, which will connect poor suburbs with the centre of Rio de Janeiro, will be the high-speed bus corridor that serves the largest number of commuters in the world.
OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already produce enough food today to feed nine billion people in 2050.
Tallying the Benefits of Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - More than a half-dozen governments on Tuesday launched a yearlong collaborative investigation into the economic benefits of taking broad action to combat global climate action.
Pressure Mounts to Cap Airline Emissions
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - A contentious global agreement on how to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the global airline industry will be at the top of the agenda over the next two weeks at an international summit, potentially solidifying details that have yet to emerge after more than a decade and a half of talks.
Ladakh Invites New Scarcities
- Inter Press Service
LADAKH, India, Sep 24 (IPS) - The Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken for granted the breathtaking beauty of its landscape, the purity of the cold mountain air, and the sweet taste of water in its streams.
Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
- Inter Press Service
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, Sep 23 (IPS) - The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here.
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