Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zahira Kharsany JOHNNESBURG, Oct 29 (IPS) – More than 116 million people in 131 countries across the world participated in the global ”Stand Up and Take Action” campaign that became the biggest mass mobilisation on a [...]
ARGENTINA: New Movement to Combat Poverty
October 25, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, October 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Oct 24 (IPS) – A new movement formed by a host of political, social, labour and cultural organisations of Argentina launched an action plan Friday to reduce poverty and child mortality and [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Now Sit Up and Listen – to 117 Million People
October 23, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Sanjay Suri LONDON, Oct 23 (IPS) – For every one in 50 people around the world to make a point of standing up somewhere on the planet to say the same kind of thing [...]
ECONOMY-US: It’s Not the ”Greedy Poor People”
October 23, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 23 (IPS) – A 31-year-old law designed to put an end to ”redlining” and other restrictive practices that effectively shut poor and minority families out of home-ownership and neighbourhood [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. David Cronin BRUSSELS, Oct 27 (IPS) – With signs of a recession preoccupying policy-makers in industrialised countries, prospects for the success of an international conference on providing finance to the world’s poor do not appear high. [...]