Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 161
In Northern Syria, Palestinians Finance Settlements in Kurdish-Occupied Areas
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 18 (IPS) - The video shows an empty house with even the door frames and windows torn out. Graffiti on the wall recalls that the building was once requisitioned by the Sham Legion, an Islamist faction from northern Syria.
Drought-Displaced Afghan Peasants Yearn for Their Rural Life
- Inter Press Service
Jul 17 (IPS) - The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons.Baba Jan, 60, a farmer in Badghis Province in Afghanistan has been forced to leave his home, not because of the war but due to the worst drought he has ever experienced. It is the second time this year he has been forced to leave his cherished home and life in the rural area for capital city, Kabul.
Guns for Hire? A Season for Mercenaries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Just after a band of mercenaries tried to oust the government in the Maldives back in 1988, I asked a Maldivian diplomat, using a familiar military catch phrase, about the strength of his country's “standing army.”
"Standing army?", the diplomat asked with mock surprise, and remarked perhaps half-jokingly, "We don't even have a sitting army."
'Spending Money on Education is Investing in Humanity'
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - As the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) looms, Education Cannot Wait's director Yasmine Sherif warned, "We are failing the promises we made on everything in the sustainable development goals, but especially on education because, without education, we cannot achieve any of the other sustainable development goals.”
'Passion Seeds' Fertilize Brazil's Semiarid Northeast
- Inter Press Service
ESPERANÇA, Brazil, Jul 14 (IPS) - Zé Pequeno cried when he learned that the heirloom seeds he had inherited from his father were contaminated by the transgenic corn his neighbor had brought from the south. Fortunately, he was able to salvage the native seeds because he had shared them with other neighbors.
Marginalising Key Populations Impacting Efforts to End HIV/AIDS Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Jul 14 (IPS) - A report released this week has highlighted how continuing criminalisation and marginalisation of key populations are stymying efforts to end the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Impatience as a Virtue
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 14 (IPS) - We all know and agree that patience is a virtue. It is indeed. With one exception.
In the face of a child’s suffering, impatience is the highest virtue. Or as we say in the spirit of Education Cannot Wait: “We must be unapologetically impatient” in our collective goal to reach 224 million crisis-affected children and adolescents with quality education.
Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Zimbabwe Polls
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Jul 13 (IPS) - Zimbabwe holds general elections next month amid growing human rights and press freedom concerns in what analysts say could mar conditions for undisputed poll results.
Women Recyclers in Bolivia Build Hope, Demand Recognition
- Inter Press Service
LA PAZ, Jul 12 (IPS) - They haul many kilos of recyclable materials on their backs but receive little in return. These Bolivian women who help clean up the environment from dawn to dusk are fighting for recognition of their work and social and labor rights.
Private and Public Spheres: Sweden and Mugabe
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jul 12 (IPS) - The war in Ukraine continues unabated; young men are sacrificed on battlefields, towns laid waste by aerial attacks, the threat of nuclear disasters is looming. People within an often formerly friendly inclined Europe are now wondering if Vladimir Putin has gone insane. The war in Ukraine is generally called “Putin’s war” and in April 2021 Putin signed a legislation providing him the right to run for two more consecutive terms, thus he could stay in power till 2036.
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