Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 392
Developing Countries Lead Global Shift to Green Energy
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 13 (IPS) - Emerging economies such as Mexico and India are shifting energy investments into renewable resources while industrialised countries hesitate, noted two new United Nations reports released Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya.
Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (IPS) - With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.'s key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger.
OP-ED: In South Sudan, Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 13 (IPS) - Akech B. loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, her uncle who was raising her forced her to leave school to marry a man Akech described as old and gray-haired. The man paid 75 cows as dowry for Akech. He was already married to another woman with whom he had several children.
Putting Uganda’s Working Kids Back in School
- Inter Press Service
, Jun 13 (IPS) - Children around the world may complain about attending school and doing their homework, but not 14-year-old Raya*. For two years she was forced by her illiterate parents to spend every day, rain or shine, selling sugar cane from the family garden to customers on the streets of Entebbe, about 35 km outside the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
"Carbon Farming" Makes Waves at Stalled Bonn Talks
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 12 (IPS) - U.N. climate talks have largely stalled with the suspension of one of three negotiating tracks at a key mid-year session in Bonn, Germany.
Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
- Inter Press Service
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Jun 12 (IPS) - Khadija Komboani's nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania's Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar.
Labour Violations Under Tight Wraps in Thailand
- Inter Press Service
MAHACHAI, Thailand, Jun 11 (IPS) - Next time you visit Walmart and throw that packet of frozen shrimp in your shopping cart, pause a moment.
The Girl Who Couldn’t Herd Goats Now Saves Lives
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 11 (IPS) - When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.
Senegal’s ‘Religious Schools’ Places of Exploitation
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR/BISSAU, Jun 11 (IPS) - In Dakar, urban commuters are familiar with kids as young as five years old begging on street corners at all hours of the day or the night, with torn, dirty clothes, collecting donations in an empty tin can.
U.S., Malaysia Lead Worldwide "Land Grabs"
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 10 (IPS) - Africa is the main target for "land grabs" by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released Monday.
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