Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 362
Saving Children From Loggers
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, Dic 01 (IPS) - Logging is the largest industry in the Solomon Islands, an archipelago located northwest of Fiji, where 80 percent of the islands are covered in tropical rainforest. But, although timber accounts for 60 percent of this South Pacific nation's export earnings, most local communities have experienced no beneficial development.
Egypt Begs Gulf for Rescue
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Dic 01 (IPS) - "Subsidies from the Arab world are large and reflect Arabs' love towards the Egyptian people, but we cannot depend on that to build an economy that can compete with other countries," said economist Dr Alia el Mahdi.
Budget Constraints Delays Set Up of South Africa’s Rape Courts
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov 29 (IPS) - Specialised sexual offences courts could make a dent in South Africa's staggeringly high rape rate by speeding up the turnover of rape cases and thereby convicting more rapists and encouraging more survivors to report the crime. However, unless the South African government puts its money where its mouth is, the so-called "rape courts" will amount to nothing more than a "nice idea".
Global Trade Winds Leave the Poor Gasping
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Nov 29 (IPS) - For years, it was the power chamber at the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva - the Director General's Conference Room, more popularly known as the Green Room, where a handful of delegates would gather for important discussions and meetings.
Aiming at NATO, Hitting Afghans
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Nov 29 (IPS) - A blockade of NATO supplies to Afghanistan by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party has ended up hitting Pakistan's legal trade with its neighbour, say local traders and truckers.
Uganda’s First Female Funeral Director – From Taboo to Mainstream
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Nov 28 (IPS) - Uganda may have the third-highest fertility rate in the world but where there is life, death is inevitable. And it is a certainty that Regina Mukiibi Mugongo made the most of when she became this East African nation's first ever funeral director almost two decades ago.
‘Business Is Business, Moses Is Moses’
- Inter Press Service
HAIFA, Northern Israel, Nov 27 (IPS) - As civil war paralyses Syria's transit routes and political flux in Egypt may affect security at the Suez Canal, Israel is busy repositioning itself as a transhipment hub and trade gateway to the Middle East.
Almost 20 Years On - International Justice Still Fails Rwandans
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Nov 26 (IPS) - "There is a saying that all Rwandans believe in. You can't forgive if you forget, but when you remember, you know what harmed you and you can forgive and move forward," Honore Gatera tells IPS as he walks through the grounds of the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda's capital.
Jobless Growth, the 21st Century Condition
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (IPS) - The world's poorest countries are rethinking economic policies that - even during periods of breakneck growth - have failed to provide quality employment capable of matching a demographic boom.
For Better or For Worse – Fracking in the Rustic Karoo
- Inter Press Service
KAROO, South Africa, Nov 25 (IPS) - To the casual passer-by, Petrus Kabaliso and his wife Cynthia present a disarmingly rustic sight, seated as they are under the shade of a date palm at a truck stop in the scorching Karoo desert, in South Africa's Northern Cape province, a battered umbrella held jauntily over their heads.
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