Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 261
Women's Rights First African Summit
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Feb 01 (IPS) - Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights With a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in their 26th summit held in Addis Ababa on 21-31 January this year. Why?
Combating HIV among Teens
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya / HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 01 (IPS) - Keziah Juma is coming to terms with her shattered life at the shanty she shares with her family in Kenya's sprawling Kibera slum where friends and relatives are gathered for her son's funeral arrangements. While attending an antenatal clinic, Juma who is only 16 years discovered that she had been infected with HIV. "I went into shock and stopped going to the clinic, that is why they could not save my baby and I have been bed-ridden since giving birth two months ago," she told IPS.
Response to Ethiopia’s Drought: A Story of Success or Anguish?
- Inter Press Service
IDAGA HAMUS, Ethiopia, Jan 29 (IPS) - Inside a health clinic run by the Catholic Daughters of Saint Anne, a nurse wraps a special tape measure around the upper arm of 2-year-old Rodas cradled in her mother's arms. The tape reads yellow, meaning "moderately" malnourished, according to the attending nurse.
The Lesson from Davos: No Connection to Reality
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jan 27 (IPS) - The rich and the powerful, who meet every year at the World Economic Forum (WEF), were in a gloomy mood this time. Not only because the day they met close to eight trillion dollars has been wiped off global equity markets by a "correction". But because no leader could be in a buoyant mood.
WFP’s Chief Calls for Support for Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
PEMBA, Zambia, Jan 27 (IPS) - With El Nino affecting countries in southern Africa, threatening agricultural production due to a massive heat wave, the World Food Programme has urged the international community to support the upscaling of climate smart agricultural technology for resilience.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Fraud
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 26 (IPS) - The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), negotiated in Atlanta in October 2015 and to be signed in Auckland in February 2016, privileges foreign investors while imposing substantial costs on partner countries. Touted as a ‘gold standard' 21st century trade deal, it is critical to ascertain what gains can really be expected and whether these exceed costs.
Time to Repeal Anti-Terrorism Law in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Jan 25 (IPS) - With the African Union celebrating the African Year of Human Rights at its 26th summit, at its headquarters in Addis, Ethiopia, the venue raises serious concerns about commitment to human rights.
After a Historic Success, Urgent Challenges Face the WTO
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jan 22 (IPS) - In 2015 the international community took some huge strides forward on a number of vital issues.
One Fish, Two Fish and then No Fish in the Caribbean: Reconstruction Urgently Needed
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, DC, Jan 21 (IPS) - A major new study has revealed that the global seafood catch is much larger and declining much faster than previously known.
Tanzania: Girls Struggle to Avoid Forced Marriage, Yearn to Learn
- Inter Press Service
KAHAMA, Tanzania, Jan 21 (IPS) - Maria was barely 16 when her father removed her from school to marry her off to a man 20 years older than she was just so that the family could receive eleven cows as her dowry.
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