News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1063
What’s Driving the Merciless Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia?
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Mar 11 (IPS) - As conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere pushed the number of refugees to 13 million last year, the international community is struggling to shoulder the humanitarian responsibility of protecting those fleeing violence and persecution in their homelands.
Women Make Progress in Politics, But Glass Ceiling Remains Unbreakable
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a creature of the U.N.'s 193 member states and who serves at their will and pleasure, did not hesitate to fault 13 countries that kept women out of their national parliaments and governments in power.
'Cli-Fi' Reaches into Literature Classrooms Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Mar 10 (IPS) - From Columbia University in New York to the University of Cambridge in Britain, college classrooms are picking up on the "cli-fi" genre of fiction, and cinema and academia is right behind them.
200 Million Fewer Women than Men Online
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Two hundred million fewer women have access to the internet than men, according to a report released Monday.
Bridging the Gender Inequality Gap in the Media
- Inter Press Service
Opinion: The World Sees Progress Against Undernutrition, but It's Uneven
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 09 (IPS) - In 2014, an estimated 805 million people – one in nine people worldwide – were estimated to be chronically hungry. All but 14 million of the world's hungry live in developing countries, i.e., 791 million are in developing countries, where the share of the hungry has declined by less than half – from 23.4 per cent (1990-1992) to 13.5 per cent (2012-2014).
Opinion: A Year of Progress for “Children, Not Soldiers”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 07 (IPS) - One year ago, representatives of the last eight governments of the world named by the U.N. secretary-general for the recruitment and use of children in their security forces gathered at the United Nations in New York to declare they were ready to take the steps necessary to make their security forces child-free.
From the Mountains to the Sea, Timorese Women Fight for More
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (IPS) - In Timor-Leste, the gap between rich and poor is most keenly felt by rural women and children. But while women are working hard to help rebuild Timor-Leste, their contributions are not always recognised, in a country where men's narratives still heavily dominate.
The 15 Journalists Putting Women’s Rights on the Front Page
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 06 (IPS) - Media coverage of maternal, sexual and reproductive health rights is crucial to achieving international development goals, yet journalists covering these issues often face significant challenges.
Opinion: A Legally-Binding Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 06 (IPS) - Five years after the adoption of the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) Action Plan in 2010, compliance with commitments related to nuclear disarmament lags far behind those related to non-proliferation or the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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