Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1259
U.S. Passes New Rules Regulating Conflict Minerals
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (IPS) - After a 16-month delay, a U.S. government regulator charged with investment oversight has voted on rules that will now govern U.S.-listed companies operating in the extractive industry as well as those that use minerals whose sale may fuel violence in other countries, particularly in central Africa.
Q&A: Brazil Invited to Join U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 21 (IPS) - The policy of pacification of Rio de Janeiro’s violent favelas, or shantytowns, could serve as a model in some respects in Palestinian refugee camps, says Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees, in this interview with IPS.
As Green Climate Fund Finally Meets, Funding Remains Uncertain
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (IPS) - Five months behind schedule, the board of the newest and largest international financing mechanism aimed at dealing with the effects of climate change, the Green Climate Fund, is finally slated to meet this week, just ahead of a late-summer deadline.
Northern Iraq Instead of Syria: Turkish Army’s New Target?
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Aug 20 (IPS) - With attacks by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) multiplying and spreading to a larger number of Turkish provinces, Ankara is under increasing pressure by nationalistic parties to take tougher measures against Kurdish activism, including a full-blown land incursion by the Turkish armed forces into northern Iraq.
A Plea to a Pirate
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Aug 20 (IPS) - The simple sentences six-year-old Minadi writes on paper should delight her mother. Instead, Vilasini Wakwella despairs over their content.
Europe Thinks Again About Food
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Aug 19 (IPS) - Present day European farming is based on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which was created over six decades ago by countries emerging from severe food shortages that swept the continent during and after the Second World War.
U.S. Breaks Silence on Bahrain Crackdown
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (IPS) - The U.S. State Department released a statement Friday urging the Bahraini government to reconsider a ruling that sentenced the director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, to a three-year jail term for organising opposition rallies.
Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) - With the U.N. ominously warning of an impending food crisis following severe droughts in farmlands in the United States, Brazil, Russia and at least two rain-deprived states in India, the world will once again turn its attention to a finite natural resource: water.
Assange's Limbo in Ecuador's UK Embassy Likely to Drag On
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (IPS) - Two months after he sought refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was formally granted asylum by Quito on Thursday.
U.N. to Close Syria Observer Mission
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Aug 16 (IPS) - The United Nations has ordered the end of its observer mission in Syria, and said that it would withdraw its staff within the next few days.
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