Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1117
U.N. Advice to Aid Worker: Write Last Will Before Leaving Home
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 18 (IPS) - When Anoja Wijeyesekera, an aid worker with the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, received her new assignment in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan back in 1997, her appointment letter arrived with a "survival manual" and chilling instructions: write your last will before leaving home.
Automation, Drones and Robots Lead to Guaranteeing Incomes for Humans
- Inter Press Service
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Dic 17 (IPS) - The debate over structural unemployment, automation and jobless economic growth began in the 1960s as car factories replaced workers with robots.
Guantanamo Transfers Hint at Momentum Towards Closure
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 16 (IPS) - The U.S. government announced Monday it has repatriated two Saudi detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, less than two weeks after two Algerian detainees were likewise sent back to their home country.
Syria, CAR top U.N.'s Challenges for 2014
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 16 (IPS) - As the ongoing crises in some of the world's hot spots - including Syria, the Central African Republic, Mali, Libya, Palestine and Darfur, Sudan - continue unabated, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday singled out some of the biggest challenges facing the international community in 2014.
Glaring Asymmetries in Bali Accord
- Inter Press Service
BALI, Dic 16 (IPS) - As industrialised countries celebrate the World Trade Organisation's Bali accord, the developing and the least-developed countries are forced to carry their battle to another day after securing only half-baked results and grandiose promises, said several trade ministers.
Doctor Abductions Leave Patients Helpless
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dic 16 (IPS) - Doctors in the Pakistani frontier provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan are running scared after nearly 45 consultants were kidnapped for ransom this year. Police suspect that gangs enjoying the Taliban's patronage are behind the abductions that are just a symptom of the many challenges the country faces as it battles terrorism, ethnic conflicts and sectarian divisions.
Refugees Struggle in Ruined Camp
- Inter Press Service
NAHR EL BARED, Dic 15 (IPS) - As the Syrian war intensifies sectarian clashes in Lebanon's northern coastal city Tripoli, Palestinians in the area worriedly watch the violence from the sidelines.
Illicit Capital Leaving Developing Countries Up by 14 Percent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 12 (IPS) - Developing countries are likely losing more than a trillion dollars a year in "illicit financial flows" stemming from crime and corruption, according to new estimates. This fast-rising figure is already 10 times the total amount of foreign aid these countries are receiving.
U.S. Urged to Change Policy on Support to Victims of Sexual Violence
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 12 (IPS) - The U.S. government is being urged to roll back a longstanding policy that has banned foreign aid funding from being used for health care services for victims of sexual violence in conflict situations.
In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Dic 12 (IPS) - Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is cheery, this rooftop array is one of several urban agriculture projects that are significantly improving livelihoods for the urban poor in this sprawling city.
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