Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 513
Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - US and allied economic sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine have not achieved their declared objectives. Instead, they are worsening economic stagnation and inflation worldwide. Worse, they are exacerbating hunger, especially in Africa.
Saudi Arabia: Release Abdullah al-Howaiti, revoke death sentence
- UN News
UN-appointed independent human rights experts called on Tuesday for Saudi Arabia to immediately release Abdullah al-Howaiti and quash the death sentence against him for crimes he allegedly committed as a child.
Davos Fails on Financial Transparency - And Everything Else
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 31 (IPS) - At this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos which ended last week, the attention of the world’s financial and economic elite was captured by the war in Ukraine whose president Volodimir Zelensky used his address to call to “complete withdrawal of foreign businesses from the Russian market”, despite 380 of the largest multinational companies still operating in Russia.
Over a billion methamphetamine tabs seized in East and Southeast Asia
- UN News
More than one billion methamphetamine tablets were seized in East and Southeast Asia last year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned.
How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Impacts Africa
- Inter Press Service
LUANDA, Angola, May 31 (IPS) - While Africa is yet to fully recover from the socio-economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict poses another major threat to the global economy with many African countries being directly affected.
People for Peace: Dreaming of a mine-free Lebanon
- UN News
A young Cambodian woman says it is her dream to help remove all land mines from the south of Lebanon and improve living conditions for all people living under the threat of death or injury.
Upset with the Opulence of the Rich? But the World's Children Are Paying the Bill
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 30 (IPS) - The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly–and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world's natural resources and pushing both current and future generations towards the edge of a predictable abyss.
A Global Food Crisis: Shortage Amidst Plenty
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, May 30 (IPS) - India is being asked by the US government and the IMF to reconsider its decision to suspend wheat exports. Their cited concern is that export restrictions will exacerbate food shortages amidst Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the argument does not stand ground technically or morally.
UN 'Deeply Troubled' by Impending Cuts on Development Aid by Rich Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (IPS) - The four-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has triggered a hefty increase in military spending among Western nations and a rise in humanitarian and military assistance to the beleaguered country, is now threatening to undermine the flow of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the world’s poorer nations.
People for Peace: Supporting victims of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- UN News
There is an “urgent need” to support the victims of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) according to a local organization which works on the issue with the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO.
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