Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 394
Opinion: A Call for Public Participation in National Budget Processes
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 09 (IPS) - After forming governments, authorising them to tax us and to spend on our collective needs, do we remain watchful about our money? No, we don't. Not even when we know governments borrow from money markets on the strength of the tax fund created, often beyond our means to repay. Why?
Opinion: From Inequality to Inclusion
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 08 (IPS) - Recent years have seen a remarkable resurgence of interest in economic inequality, thanks primarily to growing recognition of some of its economic, social, cultural and political consequences in the wake of Western economic stagnation.
Women Revolutionise Waste Management on Nicaraguan Island
- Inter Press Service
ALTAGRACIA, Nicaragua, Sep 07 (IPS) - A group of poor women from Ometepe, a beautiful tropical island in the centre of Lake Nicaragua, decided to dedicate themselves to recycling garbage as part of an initiative that did not bring the hoped-for economic results but inspired the entire community to keep this biosphere reserve clean.
World Running Out of Time to Save Oceans
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 07 (IPS) - The United Nations is posting a new environmental warning: the world is running out of time to prevent the gradual degradation of the world's oceans and the widespread destruction of marine life.
Q&A: “We Must Put Everything Aside and Just Focus on Water”
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sep 04 (IPS) - Globally, more than 748 million people do not have access to safe drinking water. That is more than double the population of the entire United States.
Crisis in Brazil Hampers Infrastructure under Construction
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 04 (IPS) - Besides suffering from macroeconomic imbalances, like a drop in GDP, a high inflation rate and a large public deficit, Brazil is experiencing heavy losses as many oil industry and logistical works grind to a halt.
Europe Invaded Mostly by “Regime Change” Refugees
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (IPS) - The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe were triggered largely by U.S. and Western military interventions for regime change – specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria (a regime change in-the-making).
Two Indigenous Solar Engineers Changed Their Village in Chile
- Inter Press Service
CASPANA, Chile, Sep 02 (IPS) - Liliana and Luisa Terán, two indigenous women from northern Chile who travelled to India for training in installing solar panels, have not only changed their own future but that of Caspana, their remote village nestled in a stunning valley in the Atacama desert.
Opinion: Women in the Face of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Sep 02 (IPS) - After surviving the storm surge wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in November 2013, women in evacuation centres found themselves again fighting for survival … at times from rape. Many became victims of human trafficking while many more did anything they could to feed their families before themselves.
Who Will Pay the Price for Australia’s Climate Change Policies?
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Sep 02 (IPS) - Rowan Foley has spent many years as a ranger and park manager, caring for Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park Aboriginal lands in the spiritual heart of Australia's Red Centre in the Northern Territory. He has been observing the effects of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events on his people, residing in some of the hottest regions of the country.
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