Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1268
Mexican Activists Defend Internet Freedom
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jul 18 (IPS) - Mexican advocates of internet freedom are mobilising to protest their government's decision to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a multilateral treaty whose stated aim is to protect intellectual property right through enhanced international cooperation and enforcement.
Family Planning Essential for Development
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 18 (IPS) - Improving family planning to avoid unwanted pregnancies in developing countries, as well as assuring girls’ access to education, and women’s participation in the economy, are essential components of a sound development policy, according to Western experts and African activists.
Will Austerity Prompt Nuclear Disarmament?
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 18 (IPS) - The changing international political order and a dramatic budgetary situation at home are forcing France to consider giving up the extremely expensive nuclear arsenal the country has maintained since the late 1950s.
U.S.: Republicans Sink Law of the Sea Ratification for Now
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - Defying the wishes of both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Navy, Republican senators have effectively halted – for now - an effort by the administration of President Barack Obama to gain ratification of the 30-year-old Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
Negotiators Lack Focus at Arms Treaty Talks, Observers Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - More than halfway through four-week negotiations for a binding treaty to regulate the global weapons trade, observers are warning that the talks are a week behind schedule.
Anti-Terror Laws Stalk Turkish Students
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jul 17 (IPS) - Ahmet Saymadi slumps into a cafe, gives a limp handshake to some friends, and then stops at a computer to do some work. When he finally pauses for a tea break, he pushes a CD across the table, which contains the names of all 768 student activists currently imprisoned in Turkey’s jails.
Rights Groups, U.S. Denounce Sentences of Ethiopian Journalists
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - Human rights groups, press watchdogs, and even the U.S. government have strongly denounced recent prison sentences meted out against journalists and opposition activists accused of violating Ethiopia's anti-terrorism laws.
Russia Says West Using "Blackmail" over Syria
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Jul 16 (IPS) - Russia has said it would block moves at the U.N. Security Council to extend a U.N. monitoring mission in Syria if Western powers did not stop resorting to "blackmail" by threatening sanctions against Damascus.
Canada Targets Traffickers, With a Close Eye on Sex Work
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Jul 16 (IPS) - The arrests last week of the three remaining perpetrators of the alleged Opapa human trafficking ring, which forced 19 people recruited from Hungary to endure long work days, poor living conditions and no pay in the Canadian construction industry, has cast a light on Ottawa’s new measures to combat the crime.
‘Israeli Bouazizi’ Raises Questions
- Inter Press Service
TEL AVIV, Jul 15 (IPS) - During a march Saturday marking one year since social protests engulfed Israel, a man silently set himself on fire, leaving behind him a painful “I accuse!” letter that exposes widespread disillusionment in the face of the immense expectation for change, and the abyss between the people and the State.
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