Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 185
Money Laundering & Corruption Risks in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Jan 03 (IPS) - Over the last decades, the private investment fund sector has grown into a multi trillion-dollar industry. Private investment funds are vulnerable to money laundering because they contain a variety of structural risk factors that help camouflage illicit behavior.
Africa's Maternal Deaths Need Urgent Action to Meet SDG Goals
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA, Jan 03 (IPS) - As the effects of COVID-19 on Africa’s health sector become clearer, it looks the continent will need to take urgent steps to overcome the disruptions suffered in the breakdown in antenatal and postnatal care for women and newborns and neonatal intensive care units. The pandemic brought some setbacks to the gains achieved in maternal mortality over the past decade.
Living Another Year Dangerously
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jan 02 (IPS) - 2022 has been a year of great uncertainty when it seemed the world perilously reached the brink of self-destruction – be it human-induced climate change or military conflict. Welcoming 2022, we had enough reasons to be optimistic; but it was another ‘year of living dangerously’ – Tahun vivere pericoloso in the words of Soekarno, or an annus horribilis in the words of the late Queen Elizabeth.
US in Proxy War with Russia Doles out 100 Billion Dollars in Aid & Arms to Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 02 (IPS) - A US Senator once described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, perhaps facetiously, as “a Winston Churchill in a tee shirt”.
And last month, when he addressed the US Congress – with the presence of about 100 Senators and 435 Congressmen – he tried to re-live that moment.
War, Famine, Disease, Disasters – 2022 – a Year Staring at Apocalypse
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Dec 23 (IPS) - A year that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is ending with famine in Africa, while still spreading death and misery through an enduring pandemic and a deteriorating climate crisis -- 2022 has been an apocalyptic warning of the frailty of our planet and the woeful shortcomings of humankind.
Forget About All this Humanitarian Blah Blah (And Buy More Weapons)
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 22 (IPS) - Day after day, international humanitarian organisations launch desperate appeals for funding to continue saving some of the many lives at high risk. When they get a handful of dollars – even just one million – from a rich country, they welcome it as manna from heaven.
The Trap: A Journey from Afghanistan to Europe
- Inter Press Service
KABUL & ATHENS, Dec 22 (IPS) - Maliha looks confident in a café in Athens as she tells the story of her journey from Afghanistan to Europe. But as she starts recounting how a smuggler assaulted her in Turkey two years ago, she pauses, looking the other way and fiddling with her loose hair.
Raising the Alarm on the Slow Pace of Family Law Reform
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Dec 22 (IPS) - The writer is Campaign Manager - Global Campaign for Equality in Family LawIn September 2021, in the midst of a pandemic-related lockdown, a 15-year-old Muslim girl from Colombo, Sri Lanka was married off by her relatives to a much older man.
Gender Parity at the UN Willfully Ignores the Facts
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 21 (IPS) - There are two sides to the problem of Gender Parity at the United Nations.
On the one hand, member states need to appoint more women to their senior ambassadorial ranks. There is always tremendous competition for the post of UN ambassador, especially if a member state is on the UN security Council.
Gender Inequality: A Question of Power in a Male-Dominated World, Declares UN Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (IPS) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has singled out Gender Parity as one of his key priorities in his second term in office, beginning 2023.
Describing it as “a strategic goal of the Organization,” he pointed out some of the “notable advances achieved in the past five years.”
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