Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 371
Mideast and Africa Still Holdouts on Women's Rights
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) - Gender equality around the world has increased dramatically over the past half-century even though the vast majority of countries continue to restrict women's economic development in at least one way, the World Bank reports this week.
Poverty Declines as Inequality Deepens
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - As world leaders from 193 countries evaluate the successes and failures of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) during high-level meetings and special events here, the United Nations claims that extreme poverty worldwide has been cut in half.
Extremism Beckons Kenya's Young
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 25 (IPS) - Ali Hassan Gitonga, 33, a recent convert to Islam from the Meru community in Kenya's Eastern Province, is said to have travelled to Somalia for training with Al-Shabaab in 2011. He is under arrest for alleged involvement in the Sep. 21 Westgate Mall terror attack in Nairobi.
Tallying the Benefits of Climate Action
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - More than a half-dozen governments on Tuesday launched a yearlong collaborative investigation into the economic benefits of taking broad action to combat global climate action.
From Tanzania to Brazil in the Hold of a Ship
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 24 (IPS) - Ornela Mbenga Sebo, a young Congolese woman, escaped in 2011 from a rebel camp in Tanzania where she was being held as a slave and stowed away in the garbage bay of a merchant ship, with no idea where it was headed.
Nairobi Attack Exposes Flawed U.S. Terror Policies
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 24 (IPS) - In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the region.
Terrorists Rob Somalia of Healthcare
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Sep 23 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia's Afgooye Hospital, where essential drugs are dwindling at an alarming rate.
Robin Hood Activists Take Aim at Wall Street
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 21 (IPS) - Five years after the 2008 world financial crisis and two years after the Occupy movement it triggered, U.S. critics of the financial sector are coalescing around the idea of a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.
It's the Day to Buy Votes in Swaziland
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Sep 20 (IPS) - As Swaziland goes to the polls for the second and final round of voting in its general elections on Sept. 20, giveaways has become the order of the day in this southern African nation.
Q&A: Congolese Wrongly Branded as "Pathological"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) - Western analysts all too often take a distorted and reductionist approach to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says Kai Koddenbrock, who analysed more than 50 policy papers for a study published in the journal International Peacekeeping in November 2012.
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