Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 236
Bukele Speeds Up Moves Towards Authoritarianism in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 17 (IPS) - The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has been widely criticised for his authoritarian tendencies, but has said that the changes he plans will be long-term - which to his critics means a further undercutting of the weak democratic institutions that he has already begun to dismantle.
If Women Farmers were Politicians, the World Would be Fed, says Danielle Nierenberg
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Sep 17 (IPS) - Women, key contributors to agriculture production, are missing at the decision table, with alarming consequences, says Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg in an exclusive interview with IPS.
Venezuela’s Glimmer of Hope
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 17 (IPS) - This is the third serious attempt to inject some momentum in the negotiations between the Venezuelan government and opposition. Negotiations have been taking place in Mexico since last Friday, with Norway acting as mediator.
COVID-19 Recovery Requires Justice Beyond Rhetoric
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Sep 16 (IPS) - Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have exacerbated rather than reduced global inequalities. On the one hand, the net wealth of billionaires has risen to record levels since the outbreak of the pandemic (increasing by more than US$ 5 trillion to US$ 13.1 trillion from 2020 to 2021), on the other hand, the number of people living in extreme poverty has also increased massively (by approx. 100 million to 732 million in 2020).
Even as IUCN Congress Closes, Conservation Debate Hots Up
- Inter Press Service
MARSEILLE, France, Sep 15 (IPS) - One of the most hotly debated issues at the recently concluded IUCN Congress in Marseilles was about designating 30 percent of the planet's land and water surface as protected areas by 2030.
White Privilege: What It Is, What It Means and Why Understanding It Matters
- Inter Press Service
Sep 15 (IPS) - A prestigious, private school in Pretoria, South Africa, recently became a site of protest. Black learners and parents accused Cornwall Hill College of rejecting calls to make its whites-only board more representative of its diverse learner body.
The Covid-19 Youth Employment Crisis in Asia & the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 15 (IPS) - A pre-pandemic report published by the International Labor Organization, ILO, the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020, offered a sober analysis on the job market prospects for youth.
As War Keeps Poisoning Humanity, Organizing Continues to Be the Antidote
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Sep 14 (IPS) - Last weekend, U.S. corporate media continued a 20-year repetition compulsion to evade the central role of the USA in causing vast carnage and misery due to the so-called War on Terror. But millions of Americans fervently oppose the military-industrial complex and its extremely immoral nonstop warfare.
Food Systems Summit’s Scientistic Threat
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 14 (IPS) - Timely interventions by civil society, including concerned scientists, have prevented many likely abuses of next week’s UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). The Secretary General (UNSG) must now prevent UN endorsement of what remains of its prime movers’ corporate agenda.
South-South & Triangular Cooperation to Help Achieve UNs Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 (IPS) - The 2021 high-level commemoration of the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, organized ahead of the opening of the seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, provided an opportunity to discuss Southern solidarity in support of a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable future while effectively responding to the global COVID-19 crisis across the global South.
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