Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 115
Extent of Violence Against Women During Pandemic Exposed
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 11 (IPS) - COVID-19 restrictions exposed women and girls to heightened abuse – revealing the conditions in which gender-based violence became the shadow pandemic on the continent, a recent webinar attended by parliamentarians from Africa and Asia heard.
Death of an Ambassador and the Congolese Slaughter
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 10 (IPS) - On the morning of 22nd February a jeep from the World Food Programme (WFP), followed by another one with the Italian ambassador, Luca Anastasio, was driving along Route Nationale 2 passing by The Virunga National Park, an UNESCO Congolese World Heritage Site famous for its dwindling population of unique mountain gorillas.
Malawian Youth Wipe Away Unemployment Tears with Agribusiness
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Malawi, Mar 10 (IPS) - After getting tired of searching for employment for seven years, Feston Zale from Chileka area in Malawi’s Southern Region decided to venture into agribusiness.
Down in Hell
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 09 (IPS) - I am about 200 feet down a rickety old mine shaft, in the Ashanti gold mining region of Ghana. It is stiflingly hot and darker than a moonless night. I can only feel the touch of sweaty bodies passing in the darkness and hear the reverberating sound of miners coughing and breaking rocks. The lack of oxygen and dust make it hard to breathe. I have no idea how deep this shaft goes – hundreds of feet? More? If there is a Hell this must be what it feels like.
What Africa Expects of New WTO Chief Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) - When on 15 February the chair of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) General Council, Ambassador David Walker of New Zealand, announced that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala would be the new Director-General, the mood among delegates was of relief.
Women Are the Future of Africas COVID-19 Recovery
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Mar 06 (IPS) - The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably one of the biggest disruptors to modern day life as we know it. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating; millions of people have lost their lives, tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty and nearly half of the global work force is at risk of losing their livelihoods. Africa is facing its first economic recession in 25 years due to the impact of the pandemic.
International Women’s Day, 2021 - Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Mar 05 (IPS) - International Women’s day 2021 heralds a particularly challenging time for women and girls. The Covid pandemic has battered our world to such an extent that we know that our lives have been irrevocably changed and has rolled back some of the gains we made in the human rights and gender equality field.
International Women’s Day, 2021 - Removing Barriers to Women’s Leading Role in African Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
IBADAN, Nigeria, Mar 04 (IPS) - Africa’s population will double by 2050 if growth rates continue their trajectory, but the creation of jobs is not keeping pace, with up to five times more young people seeking employment each year as there are new posts to fill. And, on top of this, the COVID pandemic is plunging Africa into its first recession in 25 years.
Money Laundering: the Darker Side of the Worlds Offshore Financial System
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - A sign outside a laundry in New York city had a frivolously flippant slogan: “We launder dirty clothes, not dirty money.”
And a 2019 movie titled “Laundromat,” based on a book ‘Secrecy World’ by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jake Bernstein, exposed the byzantine world of money laundering.
Ending Inequality is Everyones Business
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Feb 25 (IPS) - The UNAIDS 2020 Global AIDS Update gave us a clear indication why the world did not meet the Fast-Track targets by 2020.
Inequality, perpetuated by structural oppression such as gender inequality; economic disparity; including human rights abuses and violations.
For most of us living in sub-Saharan Africa, we don’t need a report to tell us this. Our lives are a litany of inequality we know deep in our guts.
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