Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 388
South Sudan’s ‘State Actors’ Turn on Journalists and Aid Workers
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Jun 27 (IPS) - Since age 18, Zechariah Manyok Biar fought in the revolutionary army that won South Sudan's independence from Sudan in July 2011. But now the 28-year-old is in exile from the country he helped liberate .
Agriculture Leans on Japanese Women
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Jun 26 (IPS) - Yukako Harada, an energetic 29-year-old, is part of a small but determined band of women farmers working hard to revitalise Japan's moribund agricultural sector, which is feeling the crunch of an ageing population and a flood of cheap imports.
Q&A: How One Woman Demands Answers and an End to FGM
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - Bogaletch Gebre knows exactly what women in her Ethiopian community are going through. Along with her sisters, the women's rights activist was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) when she was a child in a part of Ethiopia where the practise was carried out on every girl.
If Not Quantitative Easing, Then What?
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 25 (IPS) - It took world leaders some time to realise that the financial crisis initiated by the collapse of the subprime mortgage segment of U.S. financial markets in 2007 would not exhaust its effects in an ordinary recession.
Farming in the Mauritian Sea
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Jun 25 (IPS) - "No fighting, please. Everybody will get their fish. Give us time to empty the crates and weigh today's catch," Patrick Guiliano Marie, leader of the St. Pierre Fish Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society, shouts at the crowd jostling impatiently at the fish landing station in Grand Gaube, a fishing village in northern Mauritius.
For Africa Trip, Obama Urged to Prioritise Development
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - Advocacy groups here are urging U.S. President Barack Obama to focus on more than just economic development during his upcoming trip to Africa.
World Bank Formally Urged to Overhaul ‘Doing Business’ Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 24 (IPS) - An external review panel is calling on the World Bank to institute sweeping reforms to its widely cited annual "Doing Business" report, including doing away with a controversial ranking of countries on a variety of business-friendliness metrics.
Q&A: India to Make Food a Fundamental Right
- Inter Press Service
Diversifying Income Helps Ease Climate Woes
- Inter Press Service
SUBANG, Indonesia, Jun 24 (IPS) - When 45-year-old Kaswati joined an income-generating project in her village in Indonesia's West Java province in 1999, all she hoped to do was supplement her family's income at a time of erratic harvests.
Greeting Whales, Not Eating Them
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVIK, Jun 24 (IPS) - After a two-year break, Iceland has resumed its hunting of fin whales. But environmental campaigners outside of Iceland are doing their best to stop it.
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