News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1066
Indigenous Food Systems Should Be on the Development Menu
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 23 (IPS) - Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality.
Report Cries out on Behalf of Iraqi Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - Iraqi women continue to be subject to physical, emotional and sexual violence, according to a new report by Minority Rights Group International and Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights.
Threats, Deaths, Impunity - No Hope for Free Press in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 20 (IPS) - It is no surprise that most Pakistani journalists work under tremendous stress; caught between crime lords in its biggest cities, militant groups across its tribal belt and rival political parties throughout the country, censorship, intimidation and death seem almost to come with the territory.
Negev Bedouin Resist Israeli Demolitions “To Show We Exist”
- Inter Press Service
AL ARAQIB, Negev Desert, Israel, Feb 20 (IPS) - Lehavim Junction in the northern Negev in Israel has been the backdrop to protests against home demolitions in Bedouin localities for the past four and half years.
America and the Middle East after the Islamic State
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (IPS) - As the Congress ponders President Barack Obama's request for an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to fight the Islamic State (ISIS or IS), American policymakers must focus on the "morning after" before they embark on another potentially disastrous war in the Levant.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (IPS) - So much information about climate change now abounds that it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Scientific reports appear alongside conspiracy theories, data is interspersed with drastic predictions about the future, and everywhere one turns, the bad news just seems to be getting worse.
Sexist Laws Still Thrive Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18 (IPS) - A rash of sex discriminatory laws – including the legalisation of polygamy, marital rape, abduction and the justification of violence against women – remains in statute books around the world.
The Two Koreas: Between Economic Success and Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
SEOUL, Feb 18 (IPS) - The two Koreas are an odd match – both are talking about possible dialogue but both have different ideas of the conditions, and that difference comes from the 62-year-old division following the 1950-53 Korean War.
“HeForShe” Campaign Moves to the Next Stage
- Inter Press Service
Deadly Asbestos Still Costing Lives
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Feb 17 (IPS) - "I would get asbestos in my mouth, spit it out and carry on working," said 52-year-old Francisco Padilla. Exposure to this deadly mineral fibre over most of his working life has resulted in cancer and the removal of his left lung, the lung lining and part of his diaphragm.
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