Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1265
Banksters Hijack Microfinance
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 27 (IPS) - For several decades, microcredit presented itself as a magical and benign financial tool for the poorest people in the world, who were otherwise completely excluded from conventional commercial banking services, to secure easy access to loans in order to set up their own businesses and live a dignified life.
Bolivia’s Indigenous Women Seek the Political Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Jul 26 (IPS) - A growing number of Bolivia's indigenous women are participating in politics, ready to break the barriers of gender and ethnicity.
When a Moral Duty to Halt Atrocities Runs into Realpolitik
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 26 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a panel of United States government officials and experts called for stronger methods to prevent modern-day genocides and mass atrocities, particularly in the case of Syria.
Arms Trade Treaty Called a "Leaky Bucket"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - As heated negotiations on a global Arms Trade Treaty near their close Friday at United Nations headquarters in New York, members of civil society as well as some U.N. member states are highly disappointed by what they call the draft text's numerous loopholes.
Protesters: Free Trade Deals, Drug Patents Derail AIDS Fight
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 26 (IPS) - As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House with a set of demands to end the epidemic.
Syria Bolsters Troops in Battle for Aleppo
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Jul 25 (IPS) - Activists say thousands of troops have been sent to Syria's second city, Aleppo, as clashes were reported in the city for the sixth consecutive day.
Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Their Fate
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 (IPS) - Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict.
Romney Offers Few Details in Major Foreign Policy Speech
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 25 (IPS) - Reprising the neo-conservative rhetoric of the primary election campaign, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday harshly criticised Barack Obama's foreign policy but offered few clues as to specific changes he would make if he defeats the president in November.
Poets Caught in Political Web
- Inter Press Service
BAKU, Jul 24 (IPS) - As two young Azeri poets enter their 11th week in detention in Iran, efforts to secure their release are not losing steam, nor are political tensions between the two countries.
Israel Pins Bombing on Hezbollah to Get EU Terror Ruling
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 24 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim Sunday of absolutely reliable intelligence linking Hezbollah to the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria last week was apparently aimed at supporting his government’s determination to get the EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation.
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