Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1168
Q&A: "The Real Target Is Zero Hunger"
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 20 (IPS) - Under the leadership of Brazilian Director General (DG) Jose Graziano da Silva, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has been engaged in a process of deep reform meant to make the organisation leaner and more effective in the fight against hunger.
U.N. Urges Turkish Police to Exercise “Restraint”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have advised "maximum restraint" following media reports of a violent police crackdown on peaceful protestors in Istanbul's Gezi Park.
Highest Number of Refugees in Two Decades
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (IPS) - Yves Norodom, a 21-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Brazil, is one of 45.2 million displaced people around the world – the largest number in 20 years.
Obama Renews Push For Nuclear Arms Control
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 19 (IPS) - Reactions have been mixed to President Barack Obama's call for greater nuclear arms reductions in the United States and Russia, made during his speech in Berlin on Wednesday.
Climate Change to Determine Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jun 19 (IPS) - The Monetary Board of Sri Lanka's Central Bank, tasked with keeping the island's economy on an even keel, does not only keep tabs on exchange rates, gold prices and inflation – it also has an eye on a less obvious indicator of economic stability: water levels in the country's main reservoirs.
FAO Highlights Inseparable Links Between Food and Water
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 19 (IPS) - Since food and water are so closely interlinked, there is a lingering fear based on the assumption, if there is no water, there will be no food.
Border Weakens Between Bombs and Cherries
- Inter Press Service
KIBBUTZ EIN ZIVAN, Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, Jun 19 (IPS) - It all happened within ten days – Syria's civil war fought metres away from Israeli orchards abutting the ceasefire line; Austrian peacekeepers hastily evacuating the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that separates Israel from Syria; fears of a total collapse of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). All while the cherry-picking season is at its peak.
U.S.-Taliban Talks Set to Begin
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 19 (IPS) - Nearly 12 years after the United States ousted the Taliban from power, the White House announced Tuesday that the United States will begin formal talks with the militant Islamist group in Qatar later this week as part of Afghanistan's national reconciliation process.
Job Creation Looming Challenge for Post-2015 World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 (IPS) - In the aftermath of the global economic crisis and with three years to go until the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, global leaders are struggling to formulate a post-2015 agenda that can address the widespread dilemmas of employment and inclusive growth.
Colombia, the United States, and Montesquieu
- Inter Press Service
ALFAZ, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States and Colombia are the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas.
Both have good reasons: Colombia has witnessed the longest lasting violence in any contemporary country: from 1949, with some interruptions, then on again from 1964 with the notorious guerilla group, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
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