Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1221
Financial Crimes Cost Developing World At Least a Trillion Dollars
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 18 (IPS) - The developing world lost nearly one trillion dollars in 2010 as a result of corruption, tax evasion, and other financial crimes not involving cash transactions, according to a new report released here Monday by Global Financial Integrity (GFI).
Rate of U.S., Russian Nuclear Disarmament “Slowing”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 17 (IPS) - Although the United States and Russia have massively reduced their collective number of nuclear weapons since the heyday of the Cold War, the rate of that reduction is slowing, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) warned Monday.
At the Edge of the Carbon Cliff
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Dic 17 (IPS) - The most important number in history is now the annual measure of carbon emissions. That number reveals humanity's steady billion-tonne by billion-tonne march to the edge of the carbon cliff, beyond which scientists warn lies a fateful fall to catastrophic climate change.
Ceasefire Means 'Nothing' to Gaza Fishers
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Dic 17 (IPS) - Shortly after Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement on Nov. 21, the Israeli navy abducted 30 Palestinian fishers from Gaza's waters, destroyed and sank a Palestinian fishing vessel, and confiscated nine fishing boats in the space of four days.
Urgent Action Is Needed to Restore Growth
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dic 17 (IPS) - The global economy weakened significantly towards the end of 2011 and further downward pressure emerged in the course of 2012. The growth rate of global output, which had already decelerated from 4.1 percent in 2010 to 2.7 percent in 2011, is expected to slow down even more in 2012 to around 2.3 per cent. Developed economies as a whole are likely to grow by only slightly more than one per cent in 2012, owing mainly to the recession currently gripping the European Union (EU).
Remittances Soothe the Scourge of Militancy
- Inter Press Service
PESHWAR, Pakistan, Dic 16 (IPS) - Fifty-nine-year-old Sherdil Shah, a resident of South Waziristan – a hotbed of militancy in northern Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) – used to run a modest grain shop that fetched enough money to keep his family of 10 well-fed and looked after.
Kashmiri Separatists Scrabble for Political Relevance
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Dic 15 (IPS) - Amid growing scepticism among Kashmiri people that the separatist leadership has lost relevance in the region's fast-changing political landscape, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference – an alliance of separatist political parties and religious and social groups - is making a Herculean effort to reclaim some relevance in this disputed region.
Some Take Cannabis Illicitly, Israelis Take it Seriously
- Inter Press Service
KIBBUTZ NA’AN, Israel, Dic 15 (IPS) - With his shaky hands, eighty-year-old Moshe Roth can barely pour the green powder into his pipe. Seated in a wheelchair, he murmurs in a trembling voice, "Even the scent's good."
Q&A: "Syria Needs a Political Solution with Peace, Justice and an End to Impunity"
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Dic 14 (IPS) - The first woman to preside over the United Nations Human Rights Council, Uruguayan diplomat Laura Dupuy, has made it with flying colours through one of the periods of greatest tension and conflict since the council replaced the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in 2006.
No Women, No Elections
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dic 14 (IPS) - Kenya's rights activists are furious that the country's highest court "violated" women's constitutional rights by ruling against the implementation of a gender quota in parliament ahead of the 2013 general elections.
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