Global Issues
News headlines for “Democracy”, page 244
Bridging the Gap and Crossing the Bridge
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 09 (IPS) - It may be a challenge, but it is also an absolute necessity: bridging the gap between international law and reality and quickly crossing the bridge to reach all crisis-affected children and youth left furthest behind. Inclusive and equitable quality education is the right of every girl and boy and the objective of Sustainable Development Goal 4.
The New Social Contract: an Opportunity for Deliberative Participation
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 09 (IPS) - These days there hasn’t been certainly a shortage of reports portraying the decline of liberal democracy around the world.
With rising popularism and a divisive use of social media, we should not be surprised about a general malaise taking roots in most advanced liberal democracies.
Calls to Halt Construction of Massive Oilfield in One of Africas last Wildernesses
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Jul 08 (IPS) - Wildlife and environmental campaigners have called for international action as concerns grow over a project to create a massive oilfield in one of Africa’s last wildernesses.
Another Impending Cataclysm in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 08 (IPS) - The Biden administration made a decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan based on the Trump-Taliban agreement. Their last combat soldier may have already left. There is nothing to argue about!
Investing in Education as Driver for All Our Futures
- Inter Press Service
ISLAMABAD / LAGOS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Never before have so many children been out of school. 1.6 billion children and young people – more than 90% of students worldwide – have been impacted by school closures during the pandemic. Hundreds of millions of those children have gone without any learning at all, deprived of all the benefits that being in school provides.
Why we Need to Build Economies – not Walls – to Stop Migration
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 06 (IPS) - If you speak to farmers in El Salvador, many will tell you about the time they were driven to head north across Central America towards the US. The routes to the border are many, but the origins are so often the same: desperation and hope that better employment opportunities can be found elsewhere.
UN Ready for Breakaway Nations but the Pace Remains Slow
- Inter Press Service
Jul 05 (IPS) - When the United Nations renovated its building at a cost of over $2.1 billion, as part of a seven-year refurbishing project back in 2014, the seating in the cavernous General Assembly hall was increased from 193 to 204—primarily in anticipation of at least 11 new member states joining the world body sooner or later.
Flaws in Asia’s Pearl
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Jul 05 (IPS) - For well over a century Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, has been known to the world as the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’ for its multifaceted attractions. That is until blurb writers ruined it all with hyperbolic epithets that obscured the country’s magnetic charms, which attracted visitors from around the globe.
Modern Slavery: How Consumers Can Make a Difference
- Inter Press Service
Jul 04 (IPS) - Few people want to buy products that involve the exploitation or enslavement of the workers who make them – but that’s exactly what most of us do on a daily basis.
Families Search for Loved Ones Gone Missing in Post-War El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Jul 02 (IPS) - The pain that María Estela Guevara feels over the disappearance of her niece Wendy Martínez remains as intense as it was four years ago, when she learned that the young woman, then 31, had vanished without a trace in eastern El Salvador.
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