Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness — Global Issues

Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness — Global Issues

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A polio vaccinator administers the oral polio vaccine to a child in Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS Opinion by Ifeanyi Nsofor (abuja) Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Jun 22 (IPS) – For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju – a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker – rode for more…

Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy — Global Issues

Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy — Global Issues

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President Jair Bolsonaro launched the sale of shares of Eletrobras, the largest company in the electricity sector in Brazil, which will be privatized through its capitalization. The State will remain as a minority partner, in a privatization process approved by Congress, conditional on the construction of gas thermoelectric power plants…

Tobacco Consumption Slows in the West, Grows in Africa, say Researchers — Global Issues

Tobacco Consumption Slows in the West, Grows in Africa, say Researchers — Global Issues

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As cigarette smuggling in Southern Africa becomes big business, researchers have expressed concern that tobacco consumption is increasing in younger people and developing countries. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS by Ignatius Banda (bulawayo, zimbabwe) Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 21 (IPS) – Cigarette smuggling has emerged as one…

OECDs Regressive World Corporate Income Tax Reform — Global Issues

OECDs Regressive World Corporate Income Tax Reform — Global Issues

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Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 21 (IPS) – After decades of rejecting international tax cooperation under multilateral auspices, rich countries have finally agreed. But, by insisting on their own terms, progressive corporate income…

War in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend — Global Issues

War in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend — Global Issues

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View of the United Nations General Assembly, which on three occasions this year has censured the invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine and where many countries have expressed non-alignment with the positions taken by the contenders. CREDIT: Manuel Elias/UN by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Monday, June 20, 2022 Inter Press Service CARACAS,…

Who Should Be the Next UN Climate Change Head? — Global Issues

Who Should Be the Next UN Climate Change Head? — Global Issues

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UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa addresses the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Her second, three-year term as head of UNFCCC ends in July. Opinion by Felix Dodds, Chris Spence (new york) Monday, June 20, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jun 20 (IPS) – With Patricia Espinosa due to step…

the Rich Prevail Over the Poor — Global Issues

the Rich Prevail Over the Poor — Global Issues

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by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, June 20, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) – The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated the world’s poorer nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, depriving them of any wide-ranging intellectual…