News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1069
Measles Still Kills Thousands of Children Each Year
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 05 (IPS) - Measles remains one of the leading causes of death for young children worldwide, even though a safe and ostensibly affordable vaccine is available.
Taiwanese Activists Push for Citizen-Based Constitution
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Feb 05 (IPS) - "The clock is ticking." Those were the words of Taiwan Democracy Watch Director Yeh Chueh-an on Feb. 4, as scores of civil society organisations in the capital, Taipei, began a countdown for a citizen-based rewriting of Taiwan's constitution aimed at safeguarding human rights and social equity.
Asia to Drive Strong Growth in Global Tourism
- Inter Press Service
, Feb 04 (IPS) - Global tourism, which stood at a mere 25 million international travelers in 1950 has, over the past decades, experienced such phenomenal growth and diversification that today it has become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world.
OPINION: Patent Examination and Legal Fictions: How Rights are Created on Feet of Clay
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 03 (IPS) - Industry's demands and political pressures exerted by developed countries to expand and strengthen patent protection worldwide have been based on the argument that patents promote innovation and thereby contribute to achieve social, political and economic well-being, independently of the level of development of the country where they are granted and enforced.
OPINION: The Future of Wetlands, the Future of Waterbirds – an Intercontinental Connection
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Jan 31 (IPS) - The first global treaty dealing with biodiversity was the Ramsar Convention – predating the Rio processes by 20 years.
People's Tribunal Hopes Verdict on Mining Abuses Gains Traction
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 30 (IPS) - A recent case study on Canadian mining abuses in Latin America has woven one more thread of justice in the tapestry of international law.
Marine Resources in High Seas Should be Shared Equitably
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (IPS) - After almost 10 years of often frustrating negotiations, the U.N. ad hoc committee on BBNJ decided, by consensus, to set in motion a process that will result in work commencing on a legally binding international instrument on the conservation and sustainable use, including benefit sharing, of Biological Diversity Beyond Areas of National Jurisdiction.
OPINION: Brazil Can Help Steer SDGs Towards Ambitious Targets
- Inter Press Service
BRASILIA, Jan 29 (IPS) - With the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expiring at the end of this year to be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will set priorities for the next fifteen years, 2015 will be a crucial year for the future of global development.
OPINION: Russia's Friendship University, Educating the Developing World for 55 Years
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 28 (IPS) - People's Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), which celebrates its 55th anniversary on Feb. 5, is known worldwide as a major academic and research centre. During the last five decades, PFUR has educated 80,000 students from 145 countries.
U.S. Ally Yemen in Danger of Splitting into Two - Again
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 28 (IPS) - When North and South Yemen merged into a single country under the banner Yemen Arab Republic back in May 1990, a British newspaper remarked with a tinge of sarcasm: "Two poor countries have now become one poor country."
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