Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 174
Senegal Hosts Unique Community Events on Irregular Migration
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Dec 10 (IPS) - It is four o'clock in the afternoon in Senegal's capital, Dakar, when pupils, students and workers begin to fill the municipal town halls of Grand Yoff and Sociocultural Centre Grand Médine to attend a unique community event - a film screening and a debate.
Communities Meet to Share and Discuss Experiences of Migration in Dakar
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Dec 10 (IPS) - Communities in Senegal's capital, Dakar, have been meeting across the city to watch a 45-minute documentary film made by returnee migrants, with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
U.N. Remains Defiant Amid Last Minute U-turns on Global Compact for Migration
- Inter Press Service
MARRAKECH, Morocco, Dec 10 (IPS) - Amidst negative sentiments and last-minute withdrawals from the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) by some member countries, the United Nations says the regrettable decisions are being fuelled by misinformation.
Poor Progress and No Finance Commitments at COP24 in Katowice
- Inter Press Service
KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 08 (IPS) - Implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change is in a limbo as developed countries remain noncommittal to financial obligations at the ongoing negotiations in Katowice, Poland.
Ending Sexual Harassment in the Work Place
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Dec 06 (IPS) - Ten years ago when I set out on a career in media, my dream was to work for a TV station. The first prospective employer I came across invited me to an interview in his hotel room.
The Revolution of Renewable Energy Needs Political Leadership
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 06 (IPS) - *Interview with Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. She was also the World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, leading the Bank Group's efforts to campaign for the Paris Agreement.
Q&A: Creating an African Bamboo Industry as Large as China’s
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Dec 05 (IPS) - IPS correspondent Jamila Akweley Okertchiri interviews DR. HANS FRIEDERICH, Director General of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)
The bamboo industry in China currently comprises up to 10 million people who make a living out of production of the grass. But while the Asian nation has significant resources of bamboo — three million hectares of plantation and three million hectares of natural forests — the continent of Africa is recorded to have an estimated three and a half million hectares of plantations, excluding conservation areas.
Call for a Win-Win Framework at COP24
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dec 05 (IPS) - Mithika Mwenda is the Executive Director for the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA).An African delegation is in the Polish city of Katowice to join 30,000 delegates and thousands others from almost 200 countries attending the 4th edition of what has come to be known as annual climate change negotiation conferences organised under the auspices of the United Nations.
African Countries Deserve an Enhanced Climate Ambition
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 04 (IPS) - Robert Muthami is a Programme Coordinator at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Kenya Office. He coordinates work around socio-ecological transformation.
African countries have been at the climate-change negotiating table for more than 20 years. The continent faces some of the most severe impacts of climate change, but questions remain over its adaptive capacity despite this engagement.
Havana Charter’s Progressive Trade Vision Subverted
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR & SYDNEY, Dec 04 (IPS) - In criticizing the ‘free trade delusion', UNCTAD's 2018 Trade and Development Report proposes an alternative to both reactionary nationalism, recently revived by President Trump, and the corporate cosmopolitanism of neoliberal multilateral discourse in recent decades by revisiting the Havana Charter on its 70th anniversary.
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