Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1246
EU Seeks Protection from Emerging Economies
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Sep 28 (IPS) - For many years, the European Union (EU) and its individual member states counted among the strongest advocates for free trade, arguing that it would boost economic growth and welfare both at home and abroad.
International Community "Overselling" Sudan-South Sudan Pact
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The international community is reacting triumphantly following an agreement on Thursday between Sudan and South Sudan to resume oil production and trade, despite the accord’s failure to address two of the situation’s most intractable issues, on border demarcation and control over lucrative oil-producing regions.
Q&A: Colombia’s FARC Guerrillas "Took Up Arms to Make Ourselves Heard"
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 27 (IPS) - It's hard to imagine her in guerrilla fatigues, carrying a 25-kg backpack and firing shots to repel an enemy attack, or diving for cover from aerial bombardment. She is known as Sandra Ramírez, and she has left the field of battle in Colombia to come to the Cuban capital to talk peace.
Pressure Mounts on Nuclear States to Ratify Test Ban
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - The United States and a small group of other nuclear-armed nations are apparently coming under increasing pressure to accept the international community’s resolve to legally ban nuclear testing without delay.
Major Extractives Firms No Longer Ignoring Community Consent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - New research from Oxfam, an international aid agency, finds that some of the largest multinational oil and mining companies are increasingly incorporating principles of community consent into their day-to-day operations.
Multilateralism is at a Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 27 (IPS) - Multilateralism is at a crossroads. This is a crucial matter for environmental and sustainability issues, as we have seen in the Rio+20 Summit, and for trade and other economic matters. The G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, focused precisely on improving our collective response to the current economic turbulence, which is at the heart of developments in the European Union (EU) as well.
Penang’s Women Lead Local Democracy
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Malaysia, Sep 27 (IPS) - A unique electoral exercise in Penang state, promoting participatory and gender-responsive decision-making at the grassroots level, may serve as a cue for the revival of local elections in Malaysia.
Living in Hiding From Libyan Militias
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Sep 27 (IPS) - Farrah Hamary looks the picture of despair as sweat trickles down his face in Tripoli’s heat and humidity. Hamary is too afraid to give his full name or to allow his picture to be taken.
Starving for an Equitable Food System
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - The root cause of hunger and malnutrition for millions of people worldwide lies in the severely skewed and unfairly structured hierarchy of policymakers, not in natural disasters or food shortages, according to the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 (RTFN Watch) released Tuesday.
Private Sector, U.N. Unite to Bring Millions into Classrooms
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday launched a new initiative aimed at giving education the highest political priority in the global agenda and ensuring progress towards the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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