Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 443
Major Extractives Firms No Longer Ignoring Community Consent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - New research from Oxfam, an international aid agency, finds that some of the largest multinational oil and mining companies are increasingly incorporating principles of community consent into their day-to-day operations.
U.S.: Consumer Protection Agency Takes on "Financial Tricks and Traps"
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 27 (IPS) - In the wake of the epidemic of home foreclosures, banking scandals and resulting massive financial regulation overhaul two years ago known as the Dodd-Frank legislation, the U.S. government created a new federal agency to protect consumers from being taken advantage of by banks and other institutions.
Multilateralism is at a Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 27 (IPS) - Multilateralism is at a crossroads. This is a crucial matter for environmental and sustainability issues, as we have seen in the Rio+20 Summit, and for trade and other economic matters. The G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, focused precisely on improving our collective response to the current economic turbulence, which is at the heart of developments in the European Union (EU) as well.
Arab Spring Teaches Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Sep 27 (IPS) - African leaders should take note of the lessons learned from the Arab Spring and realise that ensuring good governance and food security will avoid crises on the continent, says Kofi Annan, chairman of the Africa Green Revolution Alliance.
Serbians Unite Against Nickel Extraction
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Sep 27 (IPS) - A popular Serbian proverb quips that when it comes to politics there are as many opinions as there are people in this central European country of seven million.
Starving for an Equitable Food System
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - The root cause of hunger and malnutrition for millions of people worldwide lies in the severely skewed and unfairly structured hierarchy of policymakers, not in natural disasters or food shortages, according to the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 (RTFN Watch) released Tuesday.
U.N. Takes Up Intervention Plan on Mali
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday began to debate a plan to deploy West African peacekeeping troops to tackle the six-month Islamist insurgency in northern Mali.
Q&A: Migration Now a Key Part of the Global Economy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - As international migration continues to grow in scope, complexity and impact, effectively managing it has steadily moved up on the agenda of the international community.
U.N. Chief Fires Up Private Investment for Global Energy Solutions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Following a lukewarm outcome of the Rio+20 sustainable development negotiations in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is moving full-steam ahead on a new initiative aimed at leveraging public-private partnerships to bring modern energy to over one billion people by 2030.
Smuggling Freely Across the Colombia-Venezuela Border
- Inter Press Service
SAN CRISTÓBAL, Venezuela, Sep 26 (IPS) - It's a straightforward calculation: a litre of gasoline costs 62 times more in Colombia than in Venezuela, a difference that fuels smuggling and crime along the border.
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