News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1066
Sustaining the Future Through Culture
- Inter Press Service
FLORENCE, Oct 04 (IPS) - International experts working in the creative sector are calling for governments to recognise the integral role that culture plays in development and to ensure that culture is a part of the post-2015 United Nations development goals, to be discussed next year.
Q&A: “The Battle Continues”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - The Programme of Action adopted at the landmark 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) included chapters that defined concrete actions covering some 44 dimensions of population and development, including the need to provide for women and girls during times of conflict, the urgency of investments in young people's capabilities, and the importance of women's political participation and representation.
OPINION: Less Hunger in the World and the Challenge for the Media
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 03 (IPS) - It is common belief that good news is less interesting for the general public than bad news; this is why media coverage tends to focus on catastrophic events and disasters, both natural and man-made.
New Global Declaration “Insufficient” to Tackle Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 03 (IPS) - Heads of state, civil society groups and the leaders of some of the world's largest companies this week urged their peers to sign on to a landmark new global agreement aimed at halting deforestation by 2030, even as others are warning the accord is too lax.
Documents Detail Secret Talks Between Washington and Havana
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 02 (IPS) - In a new book cataloguing the recent history of clandestine exchanges between the U.S. and Cuba, the reliance on secret intermediaries belies the common perception that the two governments rarely communicated during the decades that followed the Cuban revolution in 1959.
OPINION: On Reproductive Rights, Progress with Concerns
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 01 (IPS) - For most of human history, reproductive rights essentially meant men and women accepting the number, timing and spacing of their children, as well as possible childlessness. All this changed radically in the second half of the 20th century with the introduction of new medical technologies aimed at both preventing and assisting human reproduction.
OPINION: A Roadmap to Living – and Thriving - in Harmony with Nature
- Inter Press Service
PYEONGCHANG, Sep 30 (IPS) - In Nagoya, Japan, in 2010, the international community made a commitment to future generations by adopting the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 and 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
U.S. to Create National Plan on Responsible Business Practices
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (IPS) - The United States will begin developing a national action plan on responsible business practices, following on several years of related advocacy from civil society.
Outgunned by Rich Polluters, Africa to Bring United Front to Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Sep 29 (IPS) - As climate change interest groups raise their voices across Africa to call for action at the COP20 climate meeting in December and the crucial COP21 in Paris in 2015, many worry that the continent may never have fair representation at the talks.
Tackling the Proliferation of Patents to Avoid Limitations to Competition
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 29 (IPS) - The steady increase in patent applications and grants that is taking place in developed and some developing countries (notably in China) is sometimes hailed as evidence of the strength of global innovation and of the role of the patent system in encouraging it.
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