Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 425
Q&A: Global Ban Another Tool in the Fight Against FGM
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 03 (IPS) - For the estimated 140 million girls and women living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), it is already too late. But since a global ban on FGM was passed at the end of last year, activists hope many more will now escape this brutal practice.
The Rise of Ethiopia’s Sole Rebels
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 01 (IPS) - Innovative Ethiopian footwear manufacturer Sole Rebels will open its second retail outlet in Taiwan this year. With ambitions to open 30 more franchise stores across the world in countries like the United States, Australia, Italy and Japan, Sole Rebels, the largest African footwear brand, is now fast becoming a global competitive brand.
Thai-EU FTA Raises Alarm for People With AIDS
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Dic 29 (IPS) - Days before leaders of the European Union (EU) arrived in Norway to collect this year's Nobel Peace prize, Thai public health activists sent a letter to the northern powerhouse, warning that the EU's 2012 accolades face a credibility test in this Southeast Asian country.
Bolivia Takes the Leap into the Big Pond of Mercosur*
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 29 (IPS) - To go down fighting in the Andean Community (CAN), with a combined market of 92 million consumers, or move up to the big leagues of Mercosur, with 275 million? This was the dilemma faced by Bolivia's foreign trade strategists when it came to pursuing full membership in the bloc formed by its neighbours to the south.
Carrots and Cabbages - Reviving Family Farming in Angola
- Inter Press Service
CAPANDA, Angola, Dic 28 (IPS) - "We never used to eat carrots, but now we like them," said Rebeca Soba, admiring her vegetable garden, an island of diversity in the midst of a vast sugarcane plantation.
Vegetable gardening has been introduced at the Capanda Agroindustrial Pole (PAC) as a source of income for local small farmers.
Q&A: Depending on Democracy to Deliver Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Dic 28 (IPS) - "Accelerating environmental pressures and growing economic inequality are triggering huge social changes around the world, putting existing democracies to the test," Halina Ward, director of the London-based Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development, tells IPS.
Grandmothers Taking the Lead Against Female Genital Mutilation?
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Dic 28 (IPS) - In the southern Senegal village of Kael Bessel, female genital mutilation is no longer a taboo subject. Sexagenarian Fatoumata Sabaly speaks freely about female circumcision and girls' rights with her friends.
U.N.'s Last Stand on Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 27 (IPS) - Amidst a politically divisive debate on gun control in the United States following a rash of mass shootings, the United Nations will meet in March to finalise an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) after nearly two decades of negotiations.
Kinshasa Graveyard Home to Hundreds
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Dic 27 (IPS) - Despite the health risks, hundreds of families are living in a cemetery in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa. Municipal authorities seem powerless to act.
BRICS Seeks New Dialogue with Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Dic 27 (IPS) - South Africa plans to boost links between Africa and its partners in the Brazil, Russia, India and China alliance at a landmark summit, which will be held in this country in March, Xavier Carim, deputy director general at the Department of Trade and Industry, told IPS.
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