Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 382
Smallholders Feed a Nation as Land Reform Fails
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 23 (IPS) - Moses Chiengerere is one of the Zimbabwe's hundreds of thousands of smallholder maize farmers keeping this southern African nation's granaries stocked with the grain.
‘Missing Melody in the Tune of Sustainable Development’
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Jul 23 (IPS) - It is 10.26 am in Kampala and a Ugandan woman is airing her gripe about the opposite sex on the airwaves.
World Bank “Falling Behind” on Human Rights, Critics Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The World Bank is being urged to explicitly incorporate human rights into its development lending criteria, ahead of an important discussion on the subject by its executive board on Tuesday.
Indonesia Comes under Fire for Fires
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 22 (IPS) - With a propensity to devour everything in their path and spiral quickly out of control, leaving behind swathes of scorched earth, forest fires are considered a hazard in most parts of the world. In Indonesia, however, fires are the preferred method for clearing large areas of land for massive plantations of commercial crops.
Malnutrition Killing Children in Cameroon
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 22 (IPS) - At the Garoua Regional Hospital's Paediatric Feeding Centre in northern Cameroon, Aicha Ahidjo* is relieved to hear that her one-year-old son will survive. The child was suffering from chronic malnutrition, and other children have died of it.
First Steps to Save Burkina Faso's Forests
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Jul 20 (IPS) - Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country's forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation.
River Diversion Project Spells Disaster
- Inter Press Service
SELENGE PROVINCE, Mongolia, Jul 19 (IPS) - Tsetseghkorol, a Mongolian herder, stares out nostalgically at the Orkhon River, the longest in the country.
OECD Proposes Plan to Curb International Tax Avoidance
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - Finance ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) countries on Friday received a previously requested strategy under which the world's largest economies could crack down on international tax avoidance, particularly on the part of multinational corporations.
/UPDATE*/ Opinion Divided on Rebirth of Ethiopia’s Opposition
- Inter Press Service
GONDAR, Ethiopia, Jul 19 (IPS) - Since the violence that ensued after the ruling party won Ethiopia's 2005 elections, this East African nation has seen little in the way of political dissent. That is, until the last few months.
When Israelis Boycott a Settlement
- Inter Press Service
ARIEL, Occupied West Bank, Jul 19 (IPS) - As the European Union delegitimises the settlement enterprise further by officially announcing that, effective Jul. 30, its 28 member states are required to differentiate between pre-1967 Israel and Israeli-occupied territories, Israelis supportive of a two-state solution vigorously lead their own boycott campaign against this settlement town of 20,000.
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