Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 197
Guatemalans Fight Extractive Industries
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCIÓN MITA, Guatemala, Sep 21 (IPS) - The majority of the Guatemalan population continues to oppose mining and other extractive projects, in the midst of a scenario of socio-environmental conflict that pits communities defending their natural resources against the interests of multinational corporations.
UN and Partners Called to Act Urgently with Education in Emergencies at Education Summit
- Inter Press Service
United Nations, Sep 18 (IPS) - Suicide bombings shattered Aisha Khurram’s school, and her university was attacked by terrorists – but despite learning in an environment where the walls were colored by blood spatter, it never shook her determination to be educated.
Achieving Lifelong Independence for People with Disabilities
- Inter Press Service
San Francisco, Sep 16 (IPS) - Vernae Gallaread aspires to teach sign language to people with disabilities and to families who cannot afford sign language lessons for their children.
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 16 (IPS) - International Equal Pay Day, observed officially by the United Nations on 16 September, aims to draw attention to the gender pay gap – the difference between what a woman earns compared to a man for work of equal value – and the systemic inequalities it is rooted in.
Killings, Abductions Fuel Fear of Taliban Return in North-West Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Sep 14 (IPS) - The killing of eight people by the outlawed Tehreek Taliban Pakistan on September 13 has given credence to the fear of a new wave of terrorism in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Africa Struggles with Neo-Colonialism
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 13 (IPS) - After a quarter century of economic stagnation, African economic recovery early in the 21st century was under great pressure even before the pandemic, due to new trade arrangements, falling commodity prices and severe environmental stress.
Multi-Faith Team Urges Repeal of Blasphemy Laws -- in the Name of Religious Freedom
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - In nations lacking certain religious freedoms, the bold multi-faith membership of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable’s Campaign to Eliminate Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws, would be forbidden.
An Unsealed Indictment of Trump’s Crimes Against Migrant Families
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, USA, Sep 09 (IPS) - For a while in 2018, the Donald Trump administration’s “family separation” policy looked like it might become the Stalingrad of his war on immigrants. It was clearly a bridge too far politically, given the global outcry it provoked. Even parts of the Republican party couldn’t stomach it. So Trump retreated strategically on family separation, and intentionally left the program so disorganized that reuniting parents and children became a still-incomplete ordeal.
UN Report Details Taliban Abuses in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 08 (IPS) - This week, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, released his first report. It is a catalog of abuses under Taliban rule since August 2021 and their devastating impact on Afghans.
Afghanistan: The Year of Illusions
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) - Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban "Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan," signed on 29 February 2020, is deemed by many as the submission of a superpower to a group that had perpetrated acts of extreme ferocity and terror.
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