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- IPS Inter Press Service Indigenous Peoples
- The planet's roughly 350 million indigenous peoples took notable steps on the international stage in the last decade. They got the world's governments to agree to create a body to represent them at the United Nations, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and to appoint a special rapporteur responsible for their human rights. Yet the years 1995-2004, named by the UN as the Indigenous Decade, did not see a significant change in the living conditions of most "tribal", "aboriginal", "native" or "first" peoples. Calling those conditions "precarious", the UN has declared 2005-2014 a second Indigenous Decade. IPS, with its network of contributors at the UN and linked to indigenous communities worldwide, is committed to tracking the world community's efforts to do justice to the rights and aspirations of these peoples. - News rss feeds
- IPS Svenska
- IPS is the world´s leading provider of information on global issues, backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to more than 1,200 outlets. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service Eye on the IFIs
- They underpin the world's financial architecture, with the power to revamp whole economies and channel billions of development dollars each year. But the so-called International Financial Institutions -- the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund and regional investment banks -- face a new era of public scrutiny and challenges to their relevancy. How are the IFIs responding to growing demands from the South and civil society groups for greater democracy and accountability? And are they living up to their stated mission of promoting economic prosperity for all?. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service - Troubled Waters
- Sustainable development has been defined as an approach to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. It requires the integration of economic, social and environmental goals to make global society not just better off, but better altogether. IPS is committed to helping readers make sense of the issues and challenges presented by sustainable development. This site brings together a selection of special reports and related features on sustainable development. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service Africa & Europe: No More Trade-Offs
- Trade, not aid for Africa: rarely has a slogan promised more, and delivered less. According to World Bank statistics, the continent's share of global trade is a miniscule 1.4 percent -- down from 3.5 percent in 1970. This situation is scarcely improved by the fact that a successful conclusion to the latest round of international trade negotiations remains maddeningly elusive. All doom and gloom, then? Not necessarily. IPS analyses the problems that prevent Africa from taking its proper place in international trade, especially in terms of its relations with Europe. But our coverage also looks at how things can be done differently -- fair trade practices, for instance -- as well as organisations and motivated individuals who simply refuse to accept the status quo. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service - NAFTA - 10 Years Later
- On Jan. 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force among Canada, Mexico and the United States. Controversial then for what critics called its attack on national sovereignty and the deal's lack of protection for the environment and workers' rights, NAFTA still provokes debate. Critics say their dire predictions have come to pass -- environmental degradation, loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and Canada and a squeeze on small farmers in Mexico -- while the pact's boosters insist the results are much more favourable. A decade later the debate is heating up, as the agreement is seen as the model for the 34-nation Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). That proposed deal looks to be wilting after a November summit where southern countries led by Brazil opposed policies laid out by the United States. But NAFTA appears to be here to stay. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service - Transport
- IPS is the world´s leading provider of information on global issues, backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to more than 1,200 outlets. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service - Millennium Development Goals
- 2007 marks the halfway point between the 2000 UN Summit that established the Millennium Development Goals and the 2015 deadline for meeting them. Activists are using this mid-point to lobby governments to assess progress and to push for faster action.
The challenges are certainly daunting. World leaders signed on to MDGs targets that include halving poverty and hunger, reducing infant and maternal mortality, fighting AIDS and malaria and promoting sustainability.
IPS brings you independent reporting on the global response -- from communities, NGOs and policy-makers -- and whether it is making a difference on the ground. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service Mexico Elections 2006
- IPS is the world´s leading provider of information on global issues, backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to more than 1,200 outlets. - News rss feeds
- IPS Inter Press Service
- IPS is the world´s leading provider of information on global issues, backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries, with satellite communication links to more than 1,200 outlets. - News rss feeds