Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 395
Walmart, Gap Seek Separate Safety Standards for Bangladesh Factories
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 31 (IPS) - Top U.S. companies are now in negotiations to agree on new safety standards for their clothing-producing contractors in Bangladesh, a month after a garment factory's collapse in Dhaka killed more than 1,100 workers.
India’s Maoists Are Far From Spent
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 31 (IPS) - They chopped down trees and used them to barricade the road, then retreated into the dense forests of the remote Sukma district, located in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, to await their quarry.
OP-ED: Incessant Killing of Elephants is Killing Africa’s Future
- Inter Press Service
BONN, May 31 (IPS) - More civil unrest in Africa, another coup d'état, more reports of child soldiers in the front line, involvement of foreign troops, the poorest of the poor losing what little they have – and all the while the proceeds of a country's wealth are diverted from much-needed social and economic development to financing death and destruction.
Warlords and Vague Constitution to Blame for Renegade Somali State
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, May 31 (IPS) - Attempts by clan elders and militia commanders in southern Somalia to form an autonomous state, without the consent of the central government but with the apparent backing of foreign countries, remains a dangerous, destabilising element in the region, say analysts.
Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to kill her for exposing the practice of female genital mutilation in her home country last year.
U.S., China Woo Caribbean "Friends" Just Days Apart
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 30 (IPS) - First it was U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who travelled to Trinidad and Tobago Tuesday to speak with "our friends" in the Caribbean.
Brazil Floors Gas Pedal on Bus Rapid Transit
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 30 (IPS) - Brazil, and especially the city of Rio de Janeiro, is experiencing a boom in bus rapid transit (BRT), a public transport system that now has an internationally-recognised quality standard.
Dreams of Education Fly Away for Ghana’s Working Kids
- Inter Press Service
WUBA, Northern Ghana, May 30 (IPS) - It is a school day but 13-year-old Musah Razark Adams, a Grade 5 primary school pupil in Wuba, northern Ghana, is standing in a rice field wielding a "koglung" – a sling shot to hit birds with.
Youth Say Coca-Cola Is Easier to Find Than Condoms
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 (IPS) - "If I am thirsty and want a bottle of Coca-Cola I can get it, no matter where in the world I am. Why can't I get contraceptives or sexual heathcare?" asked Carlos Jimmy Macazana Quispe, a youth representative from Peru currently in Kuala Lumpur for the third edition of the Women Deliver global conference on the "health and well-being of women and girls."
The Bitter Taste of Liberia’s Palm Oil Plantations
- Inter Press Service
BOEGBOR, Liberia, May 29 (IPS) - Sackie Qwemie works for Equatorial Palm Oil, the company that took his land in northwestern Liberia.
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