Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 298
OPINION: Developing Economies Increasingly Vulnerable in Unstable Global Financial System
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 16 (IPS) - After a series of crises with severe economic and social consequences in the 1990s and early 2000s, emerging and developing economies have become even more closely integrated into what is widely recognised as an inherently unstable international financial system.
Millennium Development Goals: A Mixed Report Card for India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (IPS) - Despite being one of the world's fastest expanding economies, projected to clock seven-percent GDP growth in 2017, India – a nation of 1.2 billion – is trailing behind on many vital social development indices while also hosting one-fourth of the world's poor.
Keeping Food Security on the Table at U.N. Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 13 (IPS) - Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy.
Cancer Locks a Deadly Grip on Africa, Yet It’s Barely Noticed
- Inter Press Service
Women Pick Up the Slack as Fishing Declines on India’s Southern Coasts
- Inter Press Service
NAGAPATTINAM, India, Feb 12 (IPS) - Geeta Selvaraj and a few other women take turns to prepare meals with just one large gas cooker in a tiny shop.
Money Pipeline Flowing Between U.S. Congress and Big Oil
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 12 (IPS) - With battle lines sharpening over the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, a new analysis details the intense industry lobbying of both houses of the U.S. Congress since 2013 – to the tune of 58.8 million dollars by five refinery companies alone.
Mass Rapes Reported in Darfur as Conflict Escalates
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - More than 200 Darfurian women were reportedly raped by Sudanese troops in one brutal assault on a town in October 2014, with the conflict in war-torn Darfur escalating to new heights.
Diabetes Epidemic Threatens Development Gains in Pacific Islands
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Feb 11 (IPS) - The rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Pacific Islands, which now cause 75 percent of all deaths, is one of the greatest impediments to post-2015 development, health ministers in the region claim.
In the Shadow of Displacement, Forest Tribes Look to Sustainable Farming
- Inter Press Service
CHINTOOR, India, Feb 10 (IPS) - Laxman, a 10-year-old Koya tribal boy, looks admiringly at a fenced-in vegetable patch behind his home in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state. Velvety-green and laden with vegetables, the half-acre patch is where Laxman's family gets their daily quota of nutritious food.
OPINION: People Power, the Solution to Climate Inaction
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Feb 10 (IPS) - Nothing is more important to farmers like me than the weather. It affects the growth and quality of our crops and livestock, and has a major impact on global food supply.
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