Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1139
Weakening Al-Shabaab Seeks New Aggression
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 27 (IPS) - Strong action now expected against the al-Shabaab group may well end up strengthening the group rather than weakening it, local people fear. The extremist group is suspected of involvement in the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
CO2 Reshaping the Planet, Meta-Analysis Confirms
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Sep 27 (IPS) - Greenland will eventually truly become green as most of its massive ice sheet is destined to melt, the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported Friday.
OP-ED: The U.S.-Iran Wrestling Match
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - From Tehran's perspective, the current negotiations between Iran and the United States may be best described as a wrestling match.
U.S. Projects 17-Percent Emissions Reduction by 2020
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - The United States has formally told the United Nations that it is on track to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 17-percent by the end of the decade, assuming that currently proposed regulations are implemented.
Sudan's "Wanted" President Skips U.N. General Assembly
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Sudan's beleaguered president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who threatened to visit the United Nations despite an arrest warrant for war crimes, has backed out at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour.
Survivors Question U.N. Focus on Legalising Sex Work
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - The age-old debate over how to regulate sex work has led to a rift between the United Nations and anti-trafficking organisations, which are pressuring the world body to rethink its position following two reports that advocate decriminalising all aspects of prostitution.
Mideast and Africa Still Holdouts on Women's Rights
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) - Gender equality around the world has increased dramatically over the past half-century even though the vast majority of countries continue to restrict women's economic development in at least one way, the World Bank reports this week.
Poverty Declines as Inequality Deepens
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - As world leaders from 193 countries evaluate the successes and failures of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) during high-level meetings and special events here, the United Nations claims that extreme poverty worldwide has been cut in half.
OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already produce enough food today to feed nine billion people in 2050.
Southern Libya Awaits Another Spring
- Inter Press Service
SEBHA, Libya, Sep 25 (IPS) - "The government doesn't care about us because we are from the south," Mohamed Salah Lichekh, head of the Oubari local council in southern Libya, told IPS, expressing the majority sentiment in this part of the country.
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