Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 431
Trawlers Glide Past International Fishing Laws
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Dic 01 (IPS) - Somali pirates on the southwest Indian Ocean have become one of the biggest security risks for commercial maritime shipping over the last several years. But even as piracy gave rise to international furore, an unlikely benefactor emerged: bluefin tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean.
Anti-gay Stigma Hinders Bid to Lower Côte d’Ivoire’s HIV Rate
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Dic 01 (IPS) - When Emmanuel Kokou, a 28-year-old sex worker, moved from his native Togo to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire in 2010, he knew there was a good chance that he had previously been exposed to HIV. But he had no intention of getting tested.
The Economic Cost of Kenya's Insecurity
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Dic 01 (IPS) - The wave of insecurity that has hit Kenya in the last few months is causing severe damage to the country's recovering economy, local economists have warned.
Mining Saps a Thirsty Desert
- Inter Press Service
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia, Nov 30 (IPS) - The Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the southern Gobi desert in Mongolia has become a symbol of a looming crisis: a limited water supply that could be exhausted within a decade, seriously threatening the lives and livelihoods of the local population.
Caribbean Fed Up with U.S. Rum Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 29 (IPS) - Caribbean governments have begun a quiet lobbying effort to convince Washington to rethink the subsidies it grants to the rum industry in U.S. territories, or face a formal complaint in the World Trade Organisation.
The Price of Ignoring the Sexuality of Kenya’s HIV Positive Youth
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 29 (IPS) - It all started with a fight, one that would change his life forever.
/UPDATE*/ Africa – Calling for a GMO-Free Continent
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 29 (IPS) - South African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African Centre for Biosafety's call for his country and Africa to ban the cultivation, import and export of all genetically modified maize. "I eat genetically modified maize, which I have been growing on my farm for more than seven years, and I am still alive," he declared. President-elect Pushes New Mexican Image in Washington
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (IPS) - Ahead even of his Saturday swearing in, Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto met here on Tuesday with President Barack Obama to lay out a vision for a new bilateral relationship based more on economics and less on security issues.
Mapuche Indians Fight New Airport in Southern Chile
- Inter Press Service
TEMUCO, Chile, Nov 28 (IPS) - "This is a project that reflects the occupation…of Mapuche territory," said Iván Reyes, an indigenous leader staunchly opposed to the construction of an international airport in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía.
Taking the Knowledge of Doha back to Kenya’s Rural Communities
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Nov 28 (IPS) - The skyscraper Qatari capital city of Doha is a far cry from Cecilia Kibe's home in Turkana district, a remote area in Kenya inhabited by mostly nomadic communities and pastoralists hit hard by the effects of climate change.
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