News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1093
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.
Militarising the Ebola Crisis
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - Six months into West Africa's Ebola crisis, the international community is finally heeding calls for substantial intervention in the region.
Arms Trade Treaty Gains Momentum with 50th Ratification
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 (IPS) - With state support moving at an unprecedented pace, the Arms Trade Treaty will enter into force on Dec. 24, 2014, only 18 months after it was opened for signature.
Iraq Looking for an ‘Independent’ Sunni Defense Minister
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - Iraqi President Fouad Massoum said this past week that the government was looking for an independent Sunni Muslim to fill the post of defense minister in an effort to improve chances of reunifying the country and defeating the group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS).
Zero Nuclear Weapons: A Never-Ending Journey Ahead
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorated its first ever "international day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons," the lingering question in the minds of most anti-nuclear activists was: are we anywhere closer to abolishing the deadly weapons or are we moving further and further away from their complete destruction?
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