News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1044
Opinion: Why Are Threats to Civil Society Growing Around the World?
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jun 10 (IPS) - Whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are hounded – not by autocratic but by democratic governments – for revealing the truth about grave human rights violations. Nobel peace prize winner, writer and political activist Liu Xiaobo is currently languishing in a Chinese prison while the killing of Egyptian protestor, poet and mother Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, apparently by a masked policeman, in January this year continues to haunt us.
Compensation Fund for Victims of Bangladesh Factory Collapse Reaches 30-Million-Dollar Target
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) - Two years after a massive garments factory collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, killing over 1,100 people and leaving more than 2,500 injured, a major international fund has met its target of raising 30 million dollars to be paid out in compensation to the victims and their families.
U.N. Chief Backs New Int’l Decade for Water for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues its negotiations to both define and refine a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before a summit meeting of world leaders in September, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed support for a new "International Decade for Water for Sustainable Development."
Chinese Public Most Worried About Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) - A new survey finds that China leads the world in public support for government action on climate change.
Opinion: Greece – A Sad Story of the European Establishment
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) - Only 50 years of Cold War (and the fact that German Chancellor Angela Merkel grew up in East Germany) can possibly explain the strange political power of the United States over Europe.
Israel, Hamas Escape U.N.’s List of Shame on Attacks on Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 08 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, reportedly under heavy pressure from the United States and Israel, has decided not to blacklist the Jewish state in an annex to a new U.N. report on children victimised in armed conflicts.
Fishing and Farming in Gaza is a Deadly Business
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jun 08 (IPS) - Three Palestinian fishermen were injured last week after Israeli naval forces opened fire on fishing boats off the coast of al-Sudaniyya in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing to 15 the number of farmers and fishermen shot and injured by Israeli security forces as they attempted to earn a living.
Opinion: G20 Turkish Presidency Keen to Benefit the Global Community
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jun 07 (IPS) - Turkey assumed the Presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) on Dec. 1, 2014. It will culminate in the Antalya Summit on Nov. 15-16. Our priorities build upon the G20 multi-year agenda, but also reflect particular themes we see as important for 2015.
Call for Disability Rights to Be Mainstreamed in Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - "We should remove the ‘dis' and focus on ‘abilities,'" Daniela Bas, director of the Division for Social Policy and Development at the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said at a media event on the rights of persons with disabilities on Friday.
Opinion: Immigration, Myths and the Irresponsibility of Europe
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 06 (IPS) - With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany which states simply that the country's population is shrinking fast.
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