Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 440
Should we celebrate 10 years of the global tobacco control treaty?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 18 (IPS) - February 27 will mark the 10th anniversary of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first global public health treaty.
Sexist Laws Still Thrive Worldwide
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18 (IPS) - A rash of sex discriminatory laws – including the legalisation of polygamy, marital rape, abduction and the justification of violence against women – remains in statute books around the world.
The Two Koreas: Between Economic Success and Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
SEOUL, Feb 18 (IPS) - The two Koreas are an odd match – both are talking about possible dialogue but both have different ideas of the conditions, and that difference comes from the 62-year-old division following the 1950-53 Korean War.
“HeForShe” Campaign Moves to the Next Stage
- Inter Press Service
Deadly Asbestos Still Costing Lives
- Inter Press Service
MÃLAGA, Spain, Feb 17 (IPS) - "I would get asbestos in my mouth, spit it out and carry on working," said 52-year-old Francisco Padilla. Exposure to this deadly mineral fibre over most of his working life has resulted in cancer and the removal of his left lung, the lung lining and part of his diaphragm.
Indigenous Peoples – Architects of the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 17 (IPS) - "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children" – an ancient Indian saying that encapsulates the essence of sustainability as seen by the world's indigenous people.
Maimed by Conflict, Forgotten by Peace: Life Through the Eyes of the War-Disabled
- Inter Press Service
MANNAR, Sri Lanka, Feb 16 (IPS) - It is a hot, steamy day in Sri Lanka's northwestern Mannar District. Mid-day temperatures are reaching 34 degrees Celsius, and the tarred road is practically melting under the sun.
OPINION: Developing Economies Increasingly Vulnerable in Unstable Global Financial System
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 16 (IPS) - After a series of crises with severe economic and social consequences in the 1990s and early 2000s, emerging and developing economies have become even more closely integrated into what is widely recognised as an inherently unstable international financial system.
Millennium Development Goals: A Mixed Report Card for India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (IPS) - Despite being one of the world's fastest expanding economies, projected to clock seven-percent GDP growth in 2017, India – a nation of 1.2 billion – is trailing behind on many vital social development indices while also hosting one-fourth of the world's poor.
Keeping Food Security on the Table at U.N. Climate Talks
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Feb 13 (IPS) - Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy.
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