Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1247
U.N. Takes Up Intervention Plan on Mali
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday began to debate a plan to deploy West African peacekeeping troops to tackle the six-month Islamist insurgency in northern Mali.
Q&A: Migration Now a Key Part of the Global Economy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - As international migration continues to grow in scope, complexity and impact, effectively managing it has steadily moved up on the agenda of the international community.
U.N. Chief Fires Up Private Investment for Global Energy Solutions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Following a lukewarm outcome of the Rio+20 sustainable development negotiations in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is moving full-steam ahead on a new initiative aimed at leveraging public-private partnerships to bring modern energy to over one billion people by 2030.
New Roadmap for NGOs in Haiti Aims to “Weed Out Bad Apples”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and representatives from more than 50 non-governmental organisations, including actor-activist Sean Penn, met in New York on Monday to present a new roadmap for humanitarian aid in the country.
Vaccines Get Past Taliban, Finally
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 26 (IPS) - Over thirty thousand children in the remote Tirah area of the Khyber Agency, part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Northern Pakistan, have waited four years for protection from polio, a viral disease that is sometimes referred to as ‘infantile paralysis’ due to its crippling effects on children.
U.N. Women Demands End to Impunity for Wartime Rape and Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - At a high-level event at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, U.N. Women, the United Nations body for female empowerment and gender equality, called for stronger action from world leaders to prevent and punish sexual violence in conflict.
U.S.: Gloomy News, Prognosis Out of Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 26 (IPS) - With all foreign troops due to leave Afghanistan just two years from now, the news out of the Central Asian nation is becoming increasingly gloomy.
Strained East-West Relations Dominate General Assembly Opening
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Addressing the 67th General Assembly at the United Nations in New York Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama accused the Iranian government of propping up the dictatorship in Syria and supporting terrorist groups abroad.
Easing Air Pollution Would Cool the Planet
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 25 (IPS) - The planet can be cooled a whopping 0.5 degrees C with fast action to reduce air pollution from coal-fired power plants, gas fracking, diesel trucks and biomass burning, recent studies show.
Will India Still Supply Cheap Drugs to the World?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 25 (IPS) - India may be famous for the Taj Mahal, its religious ceremonies, Bollywood films and one of the highest economic growth rates in recent years. But more importantly, India has had a positive global impact through its supply of vast quantities of low-cost, good-quality generic medicines, which have saved or prolonged millions of lives.
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