News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1068
U.N. Touts 2015 as Milestone Year for World Body
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - The United Nations, in a sustained political hype, is touting 2015 as a likely breakthrough year for several key issues on its agenda - primarily development financing, climate change, sustainable development, disaster risk-reduction and nuclear non-proliferation.
OPINION: People Power, the Solution to Climate Inaction
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Feb 10 (IPS) - Nothing is more important to farmers like me than the weather. It affects the growth and quality of our crops and livestock, and has a major impact on global food supply.
OPINION: China – The Future, After 4,000 Years of History
- Inter Press Service
OPINION: This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, Washington, Feb 07 (IPS) - "Enhanced interrogation": the George W. Bush administration bureaucrats who coined the term had perfect pitch. The apparatchiks of Kafka's Castle would have admired the grayness of the euphemism. But while it sounds like some new kind of focus group, it turns out it was just anodyne branding for good old-fashioned torture.
Youth Unemployment, Income Inequality Keep Rising
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 06 (IPS) - The world's youth unemployment rate may be "six or seven times" what the International Labor Organisation's (ILO) latest figures state, according to a global youth advocacy group.
Debating U.S. Foreign Policy: Where are the Women?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 06 (IPS) - Women are running some of the United States' most prominent foreign policy focused think tanks, leading groundbreaking foreign policy initiatives, and reporting from the front lines of the world's most dangerous conflict zones.
Sri Lanka Seeks U.S.-U.N. Backing for Domestic Probe of War Crimes Charges
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 06 (IPS) - Sri Lanka's newly-installed government, which has pledged to set up its own domestic tribunal to investigate war crimes charges, is seeking political and moral support both from the United States and the United Nations to stall a possible international investigation.
Local Pollutants Compound Threats to Coral Reefs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 06 (IPS) - A recent study suggests that one of the multiple threats to coral reefs contains both the problem and solution.
Battling Terrorism Shouldn’t Justify Torture, Spying or Hangings, Says U.N. Rights Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (IPS) - The United Nations, which is the legal guardian of scores of human rights treaties banning torture, unlawful imprisonment, degrading treatment of prisoners of war and enforced disappearances, is troubled that an increasing number of countries are justifying violations of U.N. conventions on grounds of fighting terrorism in conflict zones.
Twiplomacy Gets Its Day in the Sun at U.N.
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (IPS) - Formerly derided as the domain of time-wasting and self-obsession, social media has emerged as an unlikely shining light for international relations and social activism.
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