Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 430
India Shrugs Off UK Aid Cuts, Despite Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Cottoning on to Outsourcing Farming
- Inter Press Service
LUSAKA, Dic 05 (IPS) - Five years ago, Forbes Gwilize, 52, a cotton grower from Musena village, 80 kilometres north of the Zambian capital Lusaka, was hardly able to earn a living from farming maize.
The Emerging Global Crisis of Investment Agreements
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 04 (IPS) - A growing number of international lawsuits has highlighted an emerging global crisis: the nature and effects of investment treaties signed between governments, which are allowing private companies and investors to sue countries for millions or even billions of dollars.
From Doha to Dakar, Food Insecurity is the Norm
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Dic 04 (IPS) - Qatar may be one of the richest countries in the world, but it has something in common with its African counterparts – food insecurity.
Wine to China
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Dic 04 (IPS) - South Africa and China are partners within a club of leading emerging markets, and it would seem natural that exports of South African wine to the Chinese market should be surging.
Somaliand Rising from the Ruins of Somalia
- Inter Press Service
HARGEISA, Dic 03 (IPS) - As Somalia starts to emerge from its quagmire of instability and chaos, 20 years of relative peace and stability are starting to pay dividends for its close neighbour Somaliland, as this November it struck its first major oil deal since seceding from Somalia in 1991.
Q&A: Education Is Where HIV Care Begins
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 02 (IPS) - When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were HIV-positive.
Shorai Chitongo, founder of Ray of Hope, a support group for survivors of domestic violence, and a national leader of the Groots Zimbabwe Home-Based Care Alliance. Photo courtesy of Ms. Chitongo Q&A: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Against AIDS
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 01 (IPS) - As the international community comes together on Dec. 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day, a new report from UNAIDS reveals that while significant progress has been made in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS, stigmatisation, violence and discrimination against members of the gay community continue relentlessly.
Q&A: How Innovative Funding Combats HIV/AIDS
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 01 (IPS) - On World AIDS Day, the fact that the number of children newly infected with HIV continues to decline is welcome news to UNITAID, the International Drug Purchase Facility hosted by the World Health Organisation. But UNITAID is also well aware of how much more remains to be done for children already living with the disease.
DRC - Wishing the Rebels Would Remain
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Dic 01 (IPS) - Lined up along a dirt path that meanders its way up into the lush war-torn mountains surrounding the small town of Sake, in eastern Congo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of young rebel soldiers sat on the road banks in the baking sun.
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