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Friday, October 9, 2015

THE WEEK WITH IPS 10/8

  2015/10/9 Click here for the online version of this IPS newsletter   

Healthy Oceans Key to Fighting Hunger
Marianela Jarroud
Seafood offers a large amount of animal protein in diets around the world, and the livelihoods of 12 percent of the global population depend directly or indirectly on fisheries and aquaculture. However, the impacts of climate change, plastic waste pollution, illegal fishing, and acidification ... MORE > >

Rise in Large Scale Refugees Triggers New International Population Order
Thalif Deen
As the unprecedented flow of hundreds and thousands of migrants and refugees continues from war-ravaged countries to Europe, a new study warns that large-scale migration from poorer to rich nations will be a permanent feature of the global economy for decades. The joint study by the World Bank ... MORE > >

TPP is “Worst Trade Agreement” for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
Tharanga Yakupitiyage
“The TPP will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries,” said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal. The controversial agreement is the largest trade deal in a ... MORE > >

Analysis: Is the Miracle of Microfinance Illusory?
S. Kulkami and Raghav Gaiha
Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, transformed the lives of millions of poor women through unsecured micro loans or micro credit to self-help groups. Microcredit evolved into microfinance that also includes savings and basic forms of insurance and transfer mechanisms. Within ... MORE > >

United Arab Emirates and Cuba Forge Closer Ties
Patricia Grogg
Cuba and the United Arab Emirates agreed to strengthen diplomatic ties and bilateral cooperation during an official visit to this Caribbean island nation by the UAE minister of foreign affairs, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. During his 24-hour stay, Al Nahyan met on Monday Oct. 5 with ... MORE > >

Opinion: American Exceptionalism on Child Rights
Kul Chandra Gautam
On 1 October 2015, Somalia ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), leaving the United States of America as the only remaining member state of the UN not to embrace this most universally accepted human rights treaty. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reflects the sentiments of ... MORE > >

The Global South Will Make Its Contribution to Fighting Climate Change
Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Seen for years as passive actors in the fight against global warming, more than 100 countries of the Global South have submitted their national contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonising their economies. With differing levels of ambition and some targets conditional on ... MORE > >

Brazil’s Expanded Climate Targets Frustrate Environmentalists
Mario Osava
Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction programme, hailed as bold, has nevertheless left environmentalists frustrated at its lack of ambition in key aspects. “The decision to present absolute reduction targets is praiseworthy, but they could be better and more ambitious, to the benefit of ... MORE > >

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