Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1128
‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’
- Inter Press Service
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan, Nov 06 (IPS) - Amani has just turned 22. Two months ago she fled from the civil war in Syria and left her house in capital Damascus. After a dangerous nightlong trip she arrived at Zaatari, the refugee camp just over the border in Jordan, where her parents and two sisters had already lived for over a year.
U.N. Urged to Practice What It Preaches on Gender
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 05 (IPS) - Amidst a rise in sexual violence in the world's war zones, the United Nations has begun appointing women to head some of the key political and peacekeeping missions in conflict areas - and also created Gender Advisers as a second line of defence.
The Sickest Places in the World
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 05 (IPS) - Parts of Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria are among the top 10 most polluted places on the planet, according to a new report by U.S. and European environmental groups.
Jordan's Farmers Struggle to Weather Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Jordan, Nov 05 (IPS) - Abu Waleed isn't quite sure where to begin his litany of grievances. Bugs that chomp their way through the mint he grows, or the dry well that forces him to pump water from a half kilometre away? Or perhaps the 160 dinars he spent on spinach seeds only to see scant growth after planting.
U.S.-Iran Poised for Breakthrough on Hostage Crisis Anniversary
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 05 (IPS) - On the 34th anniversary of the seizure by Iranian militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, a growing number of experts here believe Washington and the Islamic Republic may be moving toward détente, if not rapprochement.
For Kurdish Women, It’s a Double Revolution
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Nov 04 (IPS) - "I got married when I was 14 and I already had four children at 20," recalls Nafia Brahim. In her fifties now, she is working hard so that no other woman loses control of her life.
A ‘Green Intifadah’ Takes Root
- Inter Press Service
BATTIR, Occupied West Bank, Nov 03 (IPS) - "O green Battir, mother of the air," Mariam Ma'mmar sings in praise of her village. As the hot season draws to a close, the land – her people's strength – dries up. Not here in her Battir, where a peaceful form of resistance against the Israeli occupation is taking root.
Drone Attack Kills More Than Taliban Chief
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Nov 02 (IPS) - The drone attack that killed Tehreek Taliban Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mahsud this week seems also to have killed hopes that drone attacks will end.
Iraq Retakes Washington Centre-Stage, Briefly
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 02 (IPS) - Ten and a half years after invading U.S. troops ousted President Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, Iraq re-emerged here this week, if only briefly, as a major foreign policy agenda item.
OP-ED: How Women's Rights Are Linked to U.S.-Iran Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 01 (IPS) - While U.S. and Iranian negotiators prepare for another round of nuclear talks in Geneva next month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been silent about another matter that could be even more indicative of his willingness to take on hardline conservatives.
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