Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 390
U.N. Urges Turkish Police to Exercise “Restraint”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have advised "maximum restraint" following media reports of a violent police crackdown on peaceful protestors in Istanbul's Gezi Park.
Somalia’s ‘Cultural Shift’ Means Less-Severe Form of FGM
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Jun 20 (IPS) - Seven-year-old Istar Mumin lies on a bed, motionless, in one of the rooms of her family home in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district. She has just gone through the horrifying ritual of "the cut," which was carried out by a local Somali nurse.
Rebuilding Zimbabwe’s Health System
- Inter Press Service
MASVINGO, Zimbabwe, Jun 19 (IPS) - A newborn baby lets out a feeble cry as midwife Anna Mungara tends to a small wound on its head, at the provincial hospital in Masvingo, a town in southeast Zimbabwe.
U.S. and Rest of G8 Won’t Follow UK on Corporate Transparency
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 19 (IPS) - The United States is being singled out for criticism after the Group of Eight (G8) rich countries failed to adopt a plan pushed by British Prime Minister David Cameron to require the creation of public country-level registries with detailed information on corporate ownership and activity.
Opponents Question Proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 19 (IPS) - Controversy is building following the announcement that negotiations will soon begin on a free trade agreement between the United States and European Union, with critics warning that any such agreement could negatively affect a host of regulatory concerns.
Diamond Mining Could Push Angola’s Antelope to Extinction
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Jun 18 (IPS) - Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world's last wild population of a rare antelope, the Giant Sable.
Analysts Say Oil Could Help Mend U.S.-Venezuela Relations
- Inter Press Service
MDGs Fund Boosts Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - Since its founding in 2007 to help developing nations fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and gender discrimination, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has financed about 130 joint programmes in 50 countries.
Freeing Trade Between South Africa and Nigeria
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jun 17 (IPS) - If a Free Trade Area were to be negotiated between Africa's two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, it would have a powerful effect on trade across the sub-continent and would challenge other countries to respond.
OP-ED: Social Protection Can Help Overcome Poverty and Hunger
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - The growing consensus, momentum and commitment to eradicate world hunger may seem overly ambitious in view of the slow progress in reducing the number of hungry people in the world in recent decades.
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