Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 423
Expo 2015 Host City Promotes Urban Food Policy Pact
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Apr 28 (IPS) - How can we provide healthy food for everyone, without threatening the survival of our planet? This is the fundamental issue at the centre of Expo 2015 – which has ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life' as its central theme – and a huge challenge for cities.
Cash-Strapped Latin American Countries Turn to China for Credit
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 28 (IPS) - Angolans are generally grateful for China's participation in the reconstruction of their central African country, in spite of the fact that some of the roads and buildings built by Chinese firms are of poor quality, and mainly Chinese labourers have been hired rather than local workers.
Opinion: Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realising Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Our world is out of balance. It is both wealthier and more unequal today than at any time since the Second World War.
No Woman, No World
- Inter Press Service
Want to Help Nepal Recover from the Quake? Cancel its Debt, Says Rights Group
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - The death toll has now passed 3,300, and there is no telling how much farther it will climb. Search and rescue operations in Nepal entered their third day Monday, as the government and international aid agencies scramble to cope with the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck this South Asian nation on Apr. 25.
Grenada Braces for Impacts of Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Middle East Conflicts Trigger New U.S.-Russia Arms Race
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - The escalating military conflicts in the Middle East – and the month-long aerial bombings of Yemen by an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia – have triggered a new arms race in the politically-volatile region.
Opinion: Arab Youth Have No Trust in Democracy
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 27 (IPS) - The results of a survey of what 3,500 young people between the ages of 18 and 24 – in all Arab countries except Syria – feel about the current situation in the Middle East and North Africa have just been released.
New Anti-Terrorism Law Batters Cameroonians Seeking Secession
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Apr 26 (IPS) - Cameroon's government under President Paul Biya is bearing down on a separatist movement fighting for the rights of a minority English-language region, using as its weapon a sweeping new anti-terrorism law introduced at the end of last year.
Swelling Ethiopian Migration Casts Doubt on its Economic Miracle
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 25 (IPS) - The 28 Ethiopian migrants of Christian faith murdered by the Islamic State (IS) on Apr. 19 in Libya had planned to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of work in Europe.
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