Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 432
Development and Taxes, a Vital Piece of the Post-2015 Puzzle
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (IPS) - Public funds are vitally important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), making corporate tax avoidance trends a pressing issue for post-2015 Financing for Development discussions.
‘Water Man of India’ Wins Stockholm Water Prize
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 (IPS) - A conservationist known as ‘The Water Man of India' has been named Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for 2015.
Opinion: Sustainable Development Goals Could Be a Game-Changer for Water
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (IPS) - Suppose money was being deposited and withdrawn from your bank account, but you didn't know how much. And suppose you knew you had bills coming due, but you didn't know when or what amount would be required to cover them.
Women in the Philippines at the Forefront of the Health Food Movement
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Mar 20 (IPS) - When Tinay Alterado's team from ARUGAAN, an organisation of women healthcare advocates, visited Eastern Visayas, a region of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, they noticed that the relief and rescue sites were flooded with donated milk formula, which nursing mothers were feeding to their babies in vast quantities.
Why Investors Should Think Twice before Investing in Coal in India – Part 2
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 19 (IPS) - In November last year, India's power minister Piyush Goyal announced that he plans to double coal production in India by the end of this decade and, in an effort to enhance production, the Indian government has started a process of auctioning coal blocks.
World’s Richest One Percent Undermine Fight Against Economic Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - The growing economic inequalities between rich and poor – and the lopsided concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the world's one percent - are undermining international efforts to fight global poverty, environmental degradation and social injustice, according to a civil society alliance.
In Thrall to the Mall Crawl and Urban Sprawl
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 19 (IPS) - There's little argument about the basic facts: It's ugly (think strip malls and big box stores). It's not very convenient (hours spent behind the wheel to get to work). And it wreaks havoc on the natural environment (lost farmland and compromised watersheds).
Nobel Peace Laureate Calls for Global Human Compassion to Combat Child Slavery
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has called for globalised human compassion to combat the global and persistent problems of child labour and child slavery.
Key to Preventing Disasters Lies in Understanding Them
- Inter Press Service
SENDAI, Japan, Mar 18 (IPS) - The Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction concluded on Wednesday after a long drawn-out round of final negotiations, with representatives of 187 U.N. member states finally agreeing on what is being described as a far-reaching new framework for the next 15 years: 2015-2030.
Banana Workers’ Strike Highlights Abuses by Corporations in Costa Rica
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Mar 18 (IPS) - A strike that has brought activity to a halt since January on three major banana plantations on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast, along the border with Panama, has highlighted the abuses in a sector in the hands of transnational corporations and has forced the governments of both countries to intervene.
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