News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1063
Family Farmers – Forward to the Future
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 17 (IPS) - "Who is more concerned than the rural family with regards to preservation of natural resources for future generations?"
OPINION: The Survivors
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Oct 17 (IPS) - Oct. 18 is the EU's Anti-Trafficking Day, as well as the United Kingdom's Anti-Slavery Day. These events offer a good opportunity to talk about human trafficking within Europe's borders, but we should not forget that there are victims and survivors all over the world.
Cash-Strapped Human Rights Office at Breaking Point, Says New Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - After six weeks in office, the new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein of Jordan launched a blistering attack on member states for insufficient funding, thereby forcing operations in his office to the breaking point "in a world that seems to be lurching from crisis to ever-more dangerous crisis."
Despite Public’s War Weariness, U.S. Defence Budget May Rise
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - Despite the public's persistent war weariness, the U.S. defence budget – the world's biggest by far – may be set to rise again, according to a new study released here this week by the Center for International Policy (CIP).
OPINION: The U.S. and a Crumbling Levant
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - As the international media is mesmerised by the Islamic State's advance on Kobani or ‘Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish border, Arab states and the United States would need to look beyond Kobani's fate and the Islamic State's territorial successes and defeats.
Curbing Biodiversity Loss Needs Giant Leap Forward
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15 (IPS) - When political leaders from climate-threatened Small Island Developing States (SIDS) addressed the U.N. General Assembly last month, there was one recurring theme: the urgent need to protect the high seas and preserve the world's marine biodiversity.
Facing Storms Without the Mangrove Wall
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Oct 15 (IPS) - As the cyclonic storm Hudhud ripped through India's eastern state of Andhra Pradesh, home to two million people, at a land speed of over 190 kilometres per hour on Sunday, it destroyed electricity and telephone infrastructure, damaged the airport, and laid waste to thousands of thatched houses, as well as rice fields, banana plantations and sugarcane crops throughout the state.
Regional Trade Agreements Cannot Substitute the Multilateral System
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 15 (IPS) - Regional trade agreements have grown very rapidly in recent years, and today the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been notified that 253 are in force.
Family Farming – A Way of Life
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 15 (IPS) - It does not make the headlines, but 2014 is the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) and family farming will be centre-stage at this year's World Food Day on Oct. 16 at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
Biodiversity, Climate Change Solutions Inextricably Linked
- Inter Press Service
PYEONGCHANG, Republic of Korea, Oct 14 (IPS) - The remarkable biodiversity of the countries of the Caribbean, already under stress from human impacts like land use, pollution, invasive species, and over-harvesting of commercially valuable species, now faces an additional threat from climate change.
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