Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 219
Concerns Arise Over Freed Nigerian Abductees, Thousands Still Missing
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) - Following the release of over 80 missing schoolgirls, human rights groups have expressed concerns about their rights and future.
Falling Between the Sun-Scorched Gaps: Drought Highlights Ethiopia’s IDP Dilemma
- Inter Press Service
GODE, Ethiopia, May 10 (IPS) - Displaced pastoralists gather around newly arrived drums of brown water as a water truck speeds off to make further deliveries to settlements that have sprung up along the main road running out of Gode, one of the major urban centers in Ethiopia's Somali region.
Towards a Global Role for ACP?
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, May 07 (IPS) - The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) met this week in Brussels for the 105th Session of its Council of Ministers to discuss the key question of how these 79 countries could play a more effective role for their own citizens and in the international arena.
Collective Amnesia in Famine Response and Resilience-Building
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, May 04 (IPS) - The emerging drought-induced humanitarian crisis—prevailing in countries from Niger in West Africa to Somalia in East Africa—and conflict-driven famine conditions in South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria, have become a regular phenomenon.
The Very Survival of Africa’s Indigenous Peoples ‘Seriously Threatened’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 03 (IPS) - The cultures and very survival of indigenous peoples in Africa are seriously threatened. They are ignored, neglected and fall victims of land grabbing and land dispossession caused by extractive industries, agribusiness and other forms of business operations.
Kenya Is Doing Its Part to Battle Drought, We Must Too
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 28 (IPS) - After three years of drought and failed harvests, Kenya is in the grip of a national crisis.
All eyes are on neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan – where the needs are indeed greater and more acute – but we must not forget the nearly 3 million Kenyans whose lives have been blighted by these extreme conditions.
Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
World Bank Must Stop Encouraging Harmful Tax Competition
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 26 (IPS) - One of the 11 areas that the World Bank's Doing Business (DB) report includes in ranking a country's business environment is paying taxes. The background study for DB 2017, Paying Taxes 2016 claims that its emphasis is "on efficient tax compliance and straightforward tax regimes".
Long Way to Go for Indigenous Rights Protection
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 (IPS) - Despite progress, many gaps remain in international indigenous rights protection, said representatives during an annual UN meeting.
Indigenous Peoples - Best Allies or Worst Enemies?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 25 (IPS) - It all happened on the very same day—4 April. That day, indigenous peoples were simultaneously characterised as fundamental allies in the world's war on hunger and poverty, while being declared as collective victims of a "tsunami" of imprisonments in Australia. See what happened.
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