Global Issues
News headlines for “Global Financial Crisis”, page 447
Papal Visit Rekindles Hopes in Former War Zone
- Inter Press Service
MADHU, Sri Lanka, Jan 15 (IPS) - Jessi Jogeswaran, a 20-year-old woman from Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna district, waited over six hours with 18 friends in the sweltering heat just to get a glimpse of Pope Francis on Jan. 14.
In the Shadow of Glacial Lakes, Pakistan’s Mountain Communities Look to Climate Adaptation
- Inter Press Service
BINDO GOL, Pakistan, Jan 15 (IPS) - Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster.
Island States Throw Off the Heavy Yoke of Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
OPINION: For the Good of Humanity – Towards a Culture of Caring
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jan 13 (IPS) - About a week ago my wife was taken to hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia. She was promptly treated with antibiotics and, wonderfully, is now on the mend.
More Than Half of Africa's Arable Land ‘Too Damaged’ for Food Production
- Inter Press Service
NTUNGAMO DISTRICT, Uganda, Jan 13 (IPS) - A report published last month by the Montpellier Panel - an eminent group of agriculture, ecology and trade experts from Africa and Europe - says about 65 percent of Africa's arable land is too damaged to sustain viable food production.
Haitians Worry World Bank-Assisted Mining Law Could Result in “Looting”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (IPS) - With Haiti's Parliament possibly set to dissolve by Tuesday, civil society groups are worried that the Haitian president may move to unilaterally put in place a contentious revision to the country's decades-old mining law.
European Citizens Call for Increased Aid to Developing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 12 (IPS) - An overwhelming majority of citizens in the 28-member European Union (EU) - which has been hamstrung by a spreading economic recession, a fall in oil prices and a decline of its common currency, the Euro - has expressed strong support for development cooperation and increased aid to developing nations.
St. Vincent Embarks on Renewable Energy Path
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, Jan 12 (IPS) - For decades, the fertile slopes of La Soufriere volcano, which occupies the northern third of this 344-kilometre-square island, has produced illegally grown marijuana that fuels the local underground economy, and the trade in that illicit drug across the eastern Caribbean.
Women ‘Sewing’ a Bright Future in Northern Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 12 (IPS) - At 46, Naseema Nashad is starting her life over, not out of choice but out of necessity. The Afghan woman was just 25 years old when Taliban militants stormed Kabul and her family was forced to flee to neighbouring Pakistan to escape what they knew would be a brutal regime.
Bhopal Cloud Hovers Over Industrial Safety in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jan 11 (IPS) - Three decades after 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited plant in the central Indian city of Bhopal on Dec. 3, 1984 – killing an estimated 4,000 almost instantly and maiming and blinding hundreds of thousands of others – the world's worst industrial disaster remains a sharp lesson on the need for greater safety regulations in Asia's third-largest economy.
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