Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1210
Q&A: Community Radio Reflects Levels of Democracy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 (IPS) - In 1983, producers of popular radio, alternative radio and educational radio convened in Montreal to define a new genre of radio: community radio. Those dialogues led to the formation of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).
Gaza Gags Civil Liberties
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Feb 12 (IPS) - Gaza is becoming increasingly radicalised as Hamas continues its crackdown on civil liberties, press freedom and the rights of women. In the last few weeks a number of journalists have been arrested and accused of being involved in "suspicious activities", several detainees shot dead by police during arrest attempts, and female students asked to abide by a strict Islamic dress code.
OP-ED: Obama and Bahrain: How to Save Al-Khalifa Rule
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (IPS) - Despite the start of a government-inspired dialogue with the opposition Sunday, the Bahraini government continues to jail dissidents, arrest demonstrators, and use a rigged judicial system to convict them.
U.N.'s Water Agenda at Risk of Being Hijacked by Big Business
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - Amidst growing new threats of potential conflicts over fast-dwindling water resources in the world's arid regions, the United Nations will commemorate 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC).
U.S. Arms Fuel Asian Tension
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Feb 11 (IPS) - After a year of intense diplomatic standoff and territorial brinkmanship among disputing states in the South and East China Seas, the U.S. military ‘pivot' to the region appears to be in full swing - a move that could further aggravate an already combustible regional dynamic.
Israel Goods Boycott Movement Rises
- Inter Press Service
ZEITOUN, Gaza, Feb 10 (IPS) - Tawfiq Mandil, 45, stands amongst hundreds of Palestinian farmers, activists, and international supporters in the Gaza Strip's eastern Zeitoun district, about half a kilometre from the border with Israel. They are renewing a call for the boycott of Israeli goods.
Marriage Made in Civil Heaven
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Feb 09 (IPS) - One couple's modest marriage in Lebanon has catapulted them into media limelight and sparked a national debate pitting the Prime Minister against the President while eliciting stern condemnation from leading religious figures. Their union is both exceptional and controversial - it is the first civil marriage in the country.
IFC Under Fire on Environment, Social Safeguards
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 08 (IPS) - Campaigners are seizing on a new internal audit of financial-market lending by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank arm that engages in private sector investment, pointing to unusually stark criticism of the institution's commitment to due diligence.
OP-ED: Succeed or Fail? What Obama Must Do in the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 08 (IPS) - Every U.S. president since Harry Truman has sought to disentangle the United States from the Middle East, and all have been sucked back into the region and its problems.
Few Hopes for Iran Breakthrough
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 08 (IPS) - Despite an agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) to resume long-delayed talks about Tehran's nuclear programme in Kazakhstan at the end of this month, few observers here believe that any breakthrough is in the offing.
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