Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1237
Rights Report on Iran Highlights Executions, Political Prisoners
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 (IPS) - More than a year into his mandate, Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, told the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly this week that the rights situation in Iran remains critical, especially as it pertains to human rights defenders, journalists, and religious and ethnic minorities.
Egypt Revolution Makes It Worse for Women
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 25 (IPS) - During the uprising that toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak women stood shoulder to shoulder with men in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, pressing the revolution’s demands for freedom, justice and dignity. But those who hoped the revolution would make them equal partners in Egypt’s future claim they may be worse off now than under Mubarak’s authoritarian rule.
Entrepreneurs and Women: Keys to Growth in Africa
- Inter Press Service
DEAUVILLE, France, Oct 25 (IPS) - The international financial crash of the late 2000s created more than a global economic recession: it accentuated popular doubts about the paradigms on which our economies are built and prompted a closer look at two crucial drivers of economic growth: women and entrepreneurship.
U.S. Outlier in New Push to Reduce Gas Flaring
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (IPS) - An international coalition led by the World Bank is calling for state-backed and private oil producers to reduce “gas flaring” by an additional 30 percent over the next five years, saying that doing so would be equivalent to taking 60 million cars off of the roads.
Adultery Laws Unfairly Target Women, U.N. Says
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 24 (IPS) - When one of the Asian countries embraced Islamic Sharia law back in the 1990s, the rigidly conservative government threatened to enforce a provision that called for convicted adulterers to be stoned to death.
Migrant Women Trapped in Sex Trade
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Oct 24 (IPS) - When French police broke up a Nigerian human trafficking ring that allegedly forced young migrant women into prostitution, the arrests cast a sharp light on the plight of what the authorities called “modern-day slaves”, here and throughout Europe.
U.S.: Greater Middle East Dominates the Last Debate
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (IPS) - U.S. strategy in the Greater Middle East, which has dominated foreign policy-making since the 9/11 attacks more than 11 years ago, similarly dominated the third and last debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney Monday night.
Jewish, Christian Groups Clash Over U.S. Aid to Israel
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (IPS) - Jewish groups have reacted furiously to a letter to Congress by 15 leaders of Christian denominations asking for a review of whether some of the three billion dollars in annual United States aid to Israel is being used in violation of U.S. law and policies.
Cooperatives Cushion the Blows of Hunger
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE/ROME, Oct 23 (IPS) - “One in eight people goes to sleep hungry every day,” according to the ‘State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012’, a document released annually by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Q&A: "Developing Countries Are Doing Their Part for Biodiversity"
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Oct 23 (IPS) - Developing countries are investing enormously in preserving biological diversity, and it is unimaginable that the wealthy nations will not fulfill their obligations to provide funding for these efforts, Brazilian environmental negotiator André Aranha Corrêa do Lago told Tierramérica*.
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