Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 25
BURMA: Ethnic Women Expose Opium Fields in Junta Strongholds
- Inter Press Service
A report exposing the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled Burma has brought to light an equally revealing story. It was produced by a team of ethnic women who risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit.
ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Future of China’s Tiger Farms in the Balance
- Inter Press Service
The road to the world’s first tiger summit in Vladivostok later this year will have to be paved with answers about the future of tiger farms in China and other East Asian countries, said conservationists.
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country
- Inter Press Service
Every morning Pepe Julian Onziema wakes up not knowing if she will live to see another rising sun. Onziema is transgender and she lives in fear for her life because of a national campaign criminalising gay people.
LABOUR: Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights Next on ILO’s Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Po Po has been enduring long hours of hard work, poor pay and abuse within the confines of her employer’s home for the past seven years. Poverty forced her to leave her family in eastern Burma and abandon a university education to work as a domestic helper in Thailand.
AFGHANISTAN: Officials’ Optimism on Economy Belies Deep Poverty
- Inter Press Service
Afghanistan may be one of the poorest countries in the world, but official figures do not quite paint a picture of a country deep in the throes of poverty and underdevelopment.
CLIMATE CHANGE: ‘Copenhagen Accord Not Legal, Kyoto Protocol Is’
- Inter Press Service
While the BASIC bloc countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - will submit their plans for voluntary mitigation actions by the Jan. 31 deadline stipulated by the Copenhagen Accord, they have taken care to emphasise that the agreement, reached at the end of the December climate change summit in the Danish capital, has no legal basis.
Q&A: ‘Saving Tigers is Good for Ecosystems, Biodiversity’
- Inter Press Service
The first Asian ministerial meeting to protect the tiger, one of the world’s most storied animals, is poised to test a new commitment between government leaders, the World Bank and the global conservationist movement.
CLIMATE CHANGE: After Copenhagen, Back to Basics for BASIC Bloc
- Inter Press Service
As environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India and China (BASIC) prepared to meet in the Indian capital on Sunday to draw up a post-Copenhagen strategy, there were great expectations on the role they could play in pushing a consensus on how the world should go about dealing with climate change.
FRANCE: Time to Pay Back Haiti
- Inter Press Service
As thousands of people filled Notre Dame Cathedral here Saturday evening in a special mass for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the solidarity and sadness reflected the historical ties that bind France to the Caribbean nation.
Q&A: From Simple Anti-War Agenda to Expansive Peace Initiatives
- Inter Press Service
Of approximately 170 peace museums that exist around the world, a third are found in Japan.
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