Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 364
Developing World Pushes for Rescue of U.N. Carbon Credit Fund
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Nov 15 (IPS) - Negotiators from Least Developed Countries are calling for the United Nations climate body to urgently establish a rescue fund to save Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism from collapse.
U.S. Labels Boko Haram, Ansaru as Terror Groups
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 14 (IPS) - The U.S. government has designated the Nigeria-based militant groups Boko Haram and Ansaru as terrorist organisations, prohibiting U.S. citizens from interacting or aiding the groups.
Las Pavas Extracts a Miracle from God
- Inter Press Service
LAS PAVAS/BOGOTÁ, Nov 14 (IPS) - The rural community of Las Pavas in northern Colombia received this year's National Peace Prize Wednesday in recognition of its peaceful struggle for land that is claimed by an oil palm company, in a case that became an international symbol of the conflict over land in this country.
Protecting Tanzania’s Farmers from Weather Extremes
- Inter Press Service
MOROGORO, Tanzania, Nov 14 (IPS) - When Habiba Msoga from Kiroka village, in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, first began applying a method of rice cultivation that was different from what her fellow farmers traditionally used, they laughed at her.
Oil Palm Expands on Deforested Land in Brazil’s Rainforest
- Inter Press Service
MOJÃ/TOMÃ-AÃU, Pará, Brazil, Nov 13 (IPS) - The green of the oil palm plantations is unbroken along kilometre after kilometre of red soil, devastated in the past by loggers and ranchers. The oil palm, a sign of alarm for some and of hope for others, is here to stay in the Amazon rainforest state of Pará in the extreme north of this country.
Middle East Women Mean Business
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 13 (IPS) - Evidence is mounting to suggest women entrepreneurs are more common in the Middle East than in startup capital Silicon Valley, and some even say it's a more supportive place for them to start a business.
Rwandans Poised to Take on African Fashion
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Nov 12 (IPS) - When Rwandan designer Colombe Ituze Ndutiye began drawing at the age of six, she thought she would grow up to be a cartoonist.
Gaps Threaten Conflict Minerals Certification
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are moving too slowly on an international plan to certify the sourcing of "conflict minerals", researchers here are warning, a failure that could threaten the entire certification process.
Opportunity Knocking
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - A sense of urgency brought on in recent years by food price volatility inspired collective action to reduce the likelihood of further price spikes and food supply shocks.
Ethiopia’s Indigenous Excluded from Rapid Growth
- Inter Press Service
OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia, Nov 11 (IPS) - As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia's major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns that pastoralist communities living in the region are under threat.
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