The Week with IPS11/11/2016

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	Iran Deal Is Key Test of Trump’s Commitment to NATO Allies Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton threatens to mainstream the Islamophobia, misogyny, racism, and anti-Semitism that swirled around his candidacy and supporters. On the foreign policy front his comments were no less shocking. But the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump hasn’t discussed in any ... MORE > >
	Changing Determinants of Global Income Inequality Jomo Kwame Sundaram Global income inequality among different regions began to increase about five centuries ago, before accelerating two centuries ago. The data suggest a brief reversal during the Golden Age quarter century after the Second World War, and in the last decade, with higher primary commodity prices once ... MORE > >
	Trump Threatens the World with Climate Disaster John Scales Avery By sabotaging Bernie Sander's primary campaign, the Democratic National Committee seems to have committed suicide and destroyed the Democratic party. USA's mass media were also responsible for the stolen primary, and for Donald Trump's election to the US Presidency. John Scales AveryBernie ... MORE > >
	U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump Urged to Ensure Human Rights for All Tharanga Yakupitiyage Across the world, human rights groups are reacting to the election of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States, urging him to make a renewed commitment to human rights. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, President-elect Trump announced his victory, saying the country must ... MORE > >
	Will Free Expression Equal Terrorism in Zimbabwe? Busani Bafana Four years ago, a faceless writer using the nom de guerre Baba Jukwa set Facebook agog with detailed exposes of machinations within the ruling Zimbabwe National People’s Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF). Garnering over 400,000 followers on Facebook, Jukwa pierced the veil over freedom of ... MORE > >
	Options Lacking to Help Developing Countries Avoid Debt Crises Tharanga Yakupitiyage and Lyndal Rowlands Despite many developing countries facing a very real risk of falling into debt crisis - the current options available to assist countries to manage their debts are surprisingly lacking. This scenario formed the basis of discussions on Monday 31 October at a Group of 77 (G77) seminar on ... MORE > >
	Peace Fails to Bring Prosperity in Eastern Sri Lanka Amantha Perera It is a Tuesday afternoon and only a handful of devotees have flocked to the Meera Grand Mosque in Katankuddi, about 300 kms east of the capital Colombo. As they prostrate in prayer, the wall in front of them is anything but pious. It is pock-marked with hundreds of holes bored into it when ... MORE > >
	Did You Try Out Rosemary’s Ceci or Makhlouta with Banana Bread? Baher Kamal The original inhabitants of Planet Earth already knew—and still know how to eat healthy. Modern, urbanised and industrialised people mostly not. Anyway, life can be made easier than one may think. Just see what a world leading specialised body in the field of food and nutrition advises on what to ... MORE > >
	Beyond Calais: A Perspective on Migration, Agriculture and Rural Development José Graziano da Silva Migration is part of the process of development. It is not a problem in itself, and could, in fact, offer a solution to a number of matters. Migrants can make a positive and profound contribution to the economic and social development of their countries of origin, transit and destination alike. To ... MORE > >
	Canadian Indigenous Injustice: A Colonial Problem? Rose Delaney The history of Canada’s indigenous population has been, for the most part, kept in the shadows. According to leading expert on indigenous justice Lisa Monchalin, the consequences of colonialism and dispossession on native communities have been “glossed over”, unacknowledged and dismissed by the ... MORE > >
	The Perils of Writing about Toilets in India Lyndal Rowlands Journalist Stella Paul was midway through an interview about toilets when she found herself, and the women she was speaking to, under attack from four angry men. “This man, he comes and he just grabs this woman by her hair and he starts dragging her on the ground and kicking her at the same ... MORE > >
	Latin America to Take the Temperature of Paris Agreement at Climate Summit Diego Arguedas Ortiz With the ratification and entry into effect of the Paris Agreement still fresh, the countries of Latin America are heading to the climate summit in Marrakesh in search of clear rules that will enable them to decarbonise their economies to help mitigate global warming. Approved on Dec. 12, 2015 ... MORE > >
	Paris Climate Agreement: Hard Work Starts Now Lyndal Rowlands The Paris Climate Change Agreement Enters into force on Friday 4 November, just days before the UN’s 22nd climate change conference begins in Marrakech, Morocco. “It’s a historic milestone for the whole world, especially for international cooperation, it’s unprecedented, however the hard ... MORE > >
	World to Cut Gas Emissions by 25 Percent More Than Paris Agreement Baher Kamal On the eve of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement today Nov. 4, the United Nations sounded new climate alarm, urging the world to ‘dramatically’ step up its efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by some 25 per cent more. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in its ... MORE > >