Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1202
Q&A: "A Pastoralist Woman Is Like a Working Machine"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - "In some communities, you can't talk about violence against women," says Agnes Leina, executive director of Il'laramatak Community Concerns (ICC), a group that promotes the human rights of pastoralist communities in northern and southern Kenya, with a special emphasis on women and girls.
OP-ED: Violence Against Women Must End
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) - Today is International Women's Day, and the issue of gender-based violence is topic A. Sadly, it has been a newsworthy topic in the global media, as well.
Civil Society Members Replace UN in Taiwan Review
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Mar 08 (IPS) - The just-completed review of Taiwan's initial state human rights report offers a new model featuring direct involvement by civil society organisations in examining compliance with international rights covenants.
Poland Cornered Over Its Secret Prisons
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Mar 08 (IPS) - A Polish official investigation into the existence of a secret CIA prison on its territory is being stalled, according to official sources, while pressure on the country to tell the truth mounts.
U.N. Security Council Hits N. Korea with New Sanctions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON, Mar 08 (IPS) - North Korea, which has survived three rounds of diplomatic and economic sanctions since its first nuclear test in 2006, reacted with predictable fury, threatening to nuke the United States, in retaliation for a Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions against Pyongyang.
U.S. Austerity Ripples Outward
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 07 (IPS) - Since the 2008 financial crisis, and most recently with the broad federal spending cuts beginning Mar. 1, experts have warned that an austerity-minded political system could bring about dramatic changes in the U.S. foreign aid model.
Cuba Loses an Essential Friend
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Mar 07 (IPS) - Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was the president who made the most visits to Cuba, where flags are flying at half-mast in official mourning for his death Tuesday Mar. 5, and where his friend and political mentor, Fidel Castro, survives him.
Gaza Women Suffer on ‘Their’ Day
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) - "In Gaza we don't lead normal lives, we just cope and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation," says Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and a long-time human rights and women's rights activist in the Gaza Strip. On International Women's Day, when many of the world's women are fighting for workplace equality and an end to domestic violence, Farra and the majority of Gaza's women fight for the most basic of human rights.
Guardians of Life and of the Earth
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 07 (IPS) - Around the world, but especially in the planet's poorest regions, women represent a life force that renews itself daily, sometimes against all odds.
North Korea Threatens U.S. with Nuclear Attack
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Mar 07 (IPS) - North Korea has vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, hours ahead of a U.N. vote on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
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