Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 417
Biofuels Converting U.S. Prairielands at Dust Bowl Rates
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (IPS) - The rush for biofuels in the United States has seen farmers converting the United States' prairie lands to farms at rates comparable with deforestation levels in Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia – rates not seen here since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
India Undercuts Tribal Rights
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (IPS) - Over a decade ago, the Dongria Kondh tribe – tucked away in the Niyamgiri hills, a mountain range in the eastern Indian state of Orissa – found itself under attack.
Tuaregs and Arabs Not Ready to Return to Mali
- Inter Press Service
GOUDEBO, Burkina Faso, Feb 22 (IPS) - Fatimata Wallet Haibala sits among a group of women and teenage girls under a tent, her handicapped boy on her lap. The scene could be a rural picture of a Tuareg gathering in the desert. But the mother mother of five resides in a refugee camp in Goudebo, Burkina Faso, almost 100 kilometres from their home in Mali.
Mozambican Farmers Fear Foreign Land Grabs
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Feb 22 (IPS) - Mozambican farmers' unions believe that soon land will become very scarce for locals as the government leases more and more of it to foreign agribusinesses – thus displacing thousands of rural communities and smallholder farmers with no official title deeds to their land.
Arms Bazaars Proliferate as U.N. Tries to Regulate Trade
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (IPS) - When a 20-year-old went on a deadly shooting spree killing 26 students and teachers in an elementary school in Connecticut last December, there was the inevitable outcry either for a ban or a tight control on gun shows, where firearms can be purchased over the counter with no background checks on the buyer.
Market Gardening Provides Livelihoods for Refugees in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Feb 21 (IPS) - Standing behind her market stall in Masisu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which overflows with cabbages, carrots and onions, Marceline Dusabe does not fit the traditional profile of an internally displaced person. She, unlike many others displaced by the internal conflict in North Kivu, is not in need of food aid.
Golf Plays Against Local Democracy
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Feb 20 (IPS) - More than 10,000 people living in the coastal Adriatic town Dubrovnik have done what many others in the region could never. They are holding a referendum on a controversial development project that they believe endangers their city.
Timbuktu Reclaims Its Treasures
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Feb 20 (IPS) - Despite uncertainty and the ongoing conflict, Mali will work to rebuild and safeguard its cultural heritage, says the West African country's minister of culture Bruno Maïga.
UN Looks, Sri Lanka Ducks
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 20 (IPS) - It has now become an annual affair. When the Geneva based UN Human Rights Council readies itself for the first of its annual regular sessions in February, the government in Sri Lanka gets ready to ward off yet another attempt to scrutinise its rights record.
‘Justice is Blind – But Not in the Case of Gender Violence’
- Inter Press Service
DURBAN, South Africa, Feb 20 (IPS) - On Tuesday, Feb. 19, famous South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius was charged with premeditated murder, with prosecutors arguing the athlete had "put on his prosthetic legs, walked seven metres and fired four shots through a locked bathroom door," killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day.
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