Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1185
As Hunger Strike Spreads, Obama Again Denounces Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 01 (IPS) - With at least 100 detainees now participating in a three-month-old hunger strike, U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday reiterated his earlier denunciations of the Guantanamo detention facility and blamed Congress for preventing its closure.
Myanmar Report on Anti-Rohingya Violence Skewed Toward Security
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 01 (IPS) - A long-awaited official report on last year's sectarian violence in western Myanmar is being heavily disparaged by human rights and advocacy groups here, who say a government-backed commission has placed undue emphasis on strengthening security while almost completely ignoring issues of discrimination and accountability.
WTO, Dubious Prize for a Latin American?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 30 (IPS) - The complicated challenge of invigorating the debilitated World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the multilateral trade system that it governs will fall, for the next four years and for the first time ever, to a Latin American.
Q&A: Schools Need “Transliteracy”
- Inter Press Service
BRASILIA, Apr 30 (IPS) - A new social contract is needed in education, that would fully incorporate informatics and the 21st century conception of human rights, French professor Divina Frau-Meigs says in this interview with IPS.
Monetising Human Waste and 101 (Slightly) Crazy Other Ideas
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 30 (IPS) - One, two or more of the 102 newly launched out-of-the box ideas to improve global health could be world-changing breakthroughs.
Some Hear Death Knell for a Two-State Solution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - Despite indications that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is committing a substantial amount of time and effort to revive the long-stalled Israel-Palestinian "peace process", a growing number of experts believe a two-state solution is no longer viable and the lack of a realistic discussion of the issue in the United States is leaving the country without an alternative policy.
Over 100 Million Women Lead Migrant Workers Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) - The face of migration is changing dramatically as women and girls now represent about half of the over 214 million migrants worldwide.
U.N. Recognises Wildlife Trafficking as “Serious Crime”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - Environment groups are applauding a new United Nations decision to officially characterise international wildlife and timber trafficking as a serious organised crime, in a move that advocates say will finally give international law enforcement officials the tools necessary to counter spiking rates of poaching.
OP-ED: How Bin Ladin’s Jihadist Message Continues to Lure the Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - The surviving Boston Marathon bomber reportedly told authorities the U.S. "war on Islam" drove him and his brother to commit their terrorist act. Their linking the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with a perceived global war on Islam is at the heart of the Jihadist message Bin Ladin and Al-Qaeda issued to the Muslim world almost two decades ago.
Bedouin Resist Israeli Shove
- Inter Press Service
KHAN AL-AHMAR, Occupied West Bank, Apr 29 (IPS) - Dozens of metal and wooden tents cling to the rocky hillside, just outside of Jerusalem along the road leading to the Dead Sea, while the unmistakable red roofs of Israeli settlements peak out from behind opposite hilltops.
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