News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1065
Acid Oceans Could Deal Heavy Blow to Fishing-Dependant Nations
- Inter Press Service
PYEONGCHANG, Republic of Korea, Oct 09 (IPS) - Scientists here are warning Caribbean countries, where the fisheries sector is an important source of livelihoods and sustenance, that they should pay close attention to a new international report released Wednesday on ocean acidification.
Most Nations Reducing Worst Forms of Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 08 (IPS) - Most of the world's governments are taking measures to reduce the worst and most hazardous forms of child labour, according to a major report released here Tuesday by the U.S. Labour Department.
Synthetic Biology Could Open a Whole New Can of Worms
- Inter Press Service
PYEONGCHANG, Republic of Korea, Oct 07 (IPS) - Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, is the world's leading producer of vetiver. In the southwest of the country, vetiver production is hard to ignore.
Brazil’s Two-Party System Leaves Amazon Activist Behind
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) - The dream of electing Brazil's first black president, an environmental activist from the Amazon jungle, lasted only 40 days and was frustrated in Sunday's elections. In the end, it is the two parties that have dominated Brazilian politics for the last 20 years that will face off in the second round of voting on Oct. 26.
Financing for Biodiversity: A Simple Matter of Keeping Promises
- Inter Press Service
PYEONGCHANG, Republic of Korea, Oct 07 (IPS) - With governments, activists and scientists tearing their hair out over the world's impending crisis in biodiversity, the outgoing president of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) delivered a simple message to participants at the 12th Conference of the Parties to the CBD (COP12) currently underway in the Republic of Korea's northern Pyeongchang county: honour the promises you made last year.
OPINION: Put People Power Back at Centre of Citizen Action
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 07 (IPS) - A few weeks ago, I co-signed perhaps the most import open letter of my career. It was an open provocation to my fellow activists and colleagues, to the members of our organisation, and to all those who, like me, earn their living in the civil society sector.
Schools Open In Iraqi Kurdistan ... But for Refugees Not Students
- Inter Press Service
ERBIL, Iraq, Oct 07 (IPS) - "We had ten minutes to leave our hometown," says 33-year-old Kamal Faris who, together with his entire family, was forced to flee the threat of Islamic State (IS) fighters approaching his village.
U.S. Anti-ISIL Strategy Drawing Growing Scepticism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - Hopes that the strategy announced by President Barack Obama a month ago against the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) might yield a relatively quick victory have disappeared amidst growing fears that the U.S.-led air campaign has at most only slowed the radical group's advance.
U.S. Investigation into Illegal Timber Imports a “Sea Change”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - A year after a U.S. company was accused of engaging in the systematic importing of flooring made from illegally harvested timber, pressure is mounting on federal agencies currently investigating the allegations.
OPINION: Planet Racing Towards Catastrophe and Politics Just Looking On
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 06 (IPS) - If ever there was a need to prove that we are faced with a total lack of global governance, the U.N. Climate Summit, extraordinarily called by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sep. 23, makes a very good case.
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