Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 425
From Slavery to Self Reliance: A Story of Dalit Women in South India
- Inter Press Service
BELLARY, India, Apr 21 (IPS) - HuligeAmma, a Dalit woman in her mid-forties, bends over a sewing machine, carefully running the needle over the hem of a shirt. Sitting nearby is Roopa, her 22-year-old daughter, who reads an amusing message on her cell phone and laughs heartily.
To Defend the Environment, Support Social Movements Like Berta Cáceres and COPINH
- Inter Press Service
BERKELEY, California, Apr 20 (IPS) - The 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America has been awarded to Berta Cáceres, an indigenous Honduran woman who co-founded the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, known as COPINH.
Opinion: Pillar of Neoliberal Thinking is Vacillating
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 20 (IPS) - This month's World Economic Outlook released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) only confirms that consequences of the collapse of the financial system, which started six years ago, are serious. And they are accentuated by the aging of the population, not only in Europe but also in Asia, the slowing of productivity and weak private investment.
Opinion: Realising Unfinished Business of MDGs : A Call for Greater Action and Investment for Malaria
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 20 (IPS) - Later this week, communities around the world will commemorate World Malaria Day for the last time in the context of the global development priorities set in 2000.
Tribunal Ruling Could Dent “Monster Boat” Trawling in West African Waters
- Inter Press Service
Instead of Scaling up Funding for Education, Major Donors Are Cutting Back
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 18 (IPS) - Despite commitments by the international community to achieve universal primary education by 2015, funds for education have been decreasing over the past ten years, according to a report released Friday by the global advocacy campaign ‘A World at School'.
Women Farmers in Patagonia Rewrite Their History in Chile
- Inter Press Service
VALLE SIMPSON, Chile, Apr 17 (IPS) - More than 100 women small farmers from Chile's southern Patagonia region have joined together in a new association aimed at achieving economic autonomy and empowerment, in an area where machismo and gender inequality are the norm.
Fears Grow for Indigenous People in Path of Massive Ethiopian Dam
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 17 (IPS) - A United Nations mission is due to take place this month to assess the impact of Ethiopia's massive Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project on the Omo River which feeds Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, lying mostly in northwest Kenya with its northern tip extending into Ethiopia.
Investigation Tears Veil Off World Bank’s “Promise” to Eradicate Poverty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 (IPS) - An expose published Thursday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners has revealed that in the course of a single decade, 3.4 million people were evicted from their homes, torn away from their lands or otherwise displaced by projects funded by the World Bank.
Clean Cookstoves Could Change the Lives of Millions in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
PHARPING, Nepal, Apr 15 (IPS) - When 26-year-old Laxmi married into the Archaya household in Chhaimale village, Pharping, south of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, she didn't think she would be spending half the day in the kitchen inhaling smoke from the stove.
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