Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 11
Spanish NGO Recycles Used Oil into Solidarity with Peru
- Inter Press Service
Tons of artisanal soaps made from recycled olive oil are regularly shipped from Spain to Peru, where their sale and use helps finance local development and education for children in poor communities.
BRAZIL: Women in Favelas Broadcast Peace
- Inter Press Service
Local women's voices have begun to be heard over a community radio station now broadcasting in Complexo do Alemao, a clump of favelas or shantytowns on the north side of this Brazilian city that were ruled until recently by armed drug gangs.
MIDEAST: Germany to Deliver Weapons to Saudi Arabia
- Inter Press Service
The decision by the German government to deliver 200 state-of-the-art armoured tanks to Saudi Arabia, despite the Wahhabi monarchy’s human rights record and its recent violent intervention in Bahrain to repress the popular rebellion against the local ruling family there, illustrates the rhetorical nature of Western support to the so called Arab democratic spring.
INDIA: Unfazed by Nuclear Suppliers’ New Rules
- Inter Press Service
Confident in the large market it offers to the world’s nuclear suppliers, India has decided to shrug off new restrictions by a 46-nation cartel on the transfer of uranium enrichment and reprocessing technologies that potentially have military applications.
DEVELOPMENT: Civil Society Welcomes New FAO Chief
- Inter Press Service
The track record of the newly elected Brazilian chief of FAO is a promise in itself for civil society.
CUBA: Microcredit Knocks on Door...Softly
- Inter Press Service
A microcredit system could begin operating in Cuba as part of reforms adopted by the government of Raúl Castro to modernise the country's socialist economic system.
DRUGS: Central America Throws Ball into Consumer Nations' Court
- Inter Press Service
The leaders of Central America, Colombia and Mexico called on the governments of the world's main drug-consuming countries to play a stronger role in fighting drug trafficking and organised crime by stepping up control of weapons sales and taking effective measures to crack down on consumption.
Second Humanitarian Flotilla Prepares to Sail for Gaza
- Inter Press Service
As the second Freedom Flotilla, made up of some 10 ships carrying 1,000 activists from 20 countries, gets ready to sail for the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli authorities are stepping up their threats.
GUATEMALA: Multi-Partner Alliance Wages War on Hunger
- Inter Press Service
'Now I get supplies to feed my children, and I have a family garden where I grow carrots, onions and beets,' Marta Quinilla, a native of Uspantán, an area northwest of the Guatemalan capital that was devastated by the 36-year civil war, says cheerfully.
MALDIVES: Mining ‘Smoking Mountain’ of Rubbish for Energy
- Inter Press Service
Most visitors to the Maldives — a string of islands southwest of Sri Lanka — won’t miss the so-called 'smoking mountain' made from local residents’ trash as well as the garbage tourists leave behind in resorts nearby.
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