Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 293
Gates Foundation Slammed for Plan to Privatise African Seed Markets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 23 (IPS) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been attacked by activists over alleged support of a plan to privatise African agricultural markets.
Salvadoran Maquila Plants Use Gang Members to Break Unions
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Mar 23 (IPS) - Textile companies that make clothing for transnational brands in El Salvador are accused of forging alliances with gang members to make death threats against workers and break up their unions, according to employees who talked to IPS and to international organisations.
Four Fast Facts to Debunk Myths About Rural Women
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 23 (IPS) - We are lucky to live in a country that has long since abandoned the image of the damsel in distress. Even Disney princesses now save themselves and send unsuitable "saviours" packing. But despite the great strides being made in gender equality, we are still failing rural women, particularly women farmers.
Opinion: Water and Sanitation in Nigeria - Playing the Numbers Game
- Inter Press Service
OWERRI, Nigeria, Mar 22 (IPS) - In Nigeria, it's all about the numbers. My nation recently became the largest economy in Africa by some distance, with a GDP of well over 500 billion dollars.
High-Tech to the Rescue of Southern Africa’s Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
DURBAN, South Africa, Mar 22 (IPS) - Agriculture is the major employer and a backbone of the economies of Southern Africa.
Development and Taxes, a Vital Piece of the Post-2015 Puzzle
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (IPS) - Public funds are vitally important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making corporate tax avoidance trends a pressing issue for post-2015 Financing for Development discussions.
World’s Richest One Percent Undermine Fight Against Economic Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - The growing economic inequalities between rich and poor – and the lopsided concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the world's one percent - are undermining international efforts to fight global poverty, environmental degradation and social injustice, according to a civil society alliance.
Banana Workers’ Strike Highlights Abuses by Corporations in Costa Rica
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Mar 18 (IPS) - A strike that has brought activity to a halt since January on three major banana plantations on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast, along the border with Panama, has highlighted the abuses in a sector in the hands of transnational corporations and has forced the governments of both countries to intervene.
Why Investors Should Think Twice before Investing in Coal in India – Part 1
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 18 (IPS) - India's Government under Narendra Modi is in overdrive mode to please businesses and investments in the country. The much aggrandised ‘Make in India' campaign launched in September 2014 is a clarion call for spurring investments into manufacturing and services in India and all eyes have turned to the power sector which is expected to undergo dramatic shifts.
Women Turn Drought into a Lesson on Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Mar 17 (IPS) - When a group of women in the remote village of Sadhuraks in Pakistan's Thar Desert, some 800 km from the port city of Karachi, were asked if they would want to be born a woman in their next life, the answer from each was a resounding ‘no'.
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