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IPS Inter Press Service - CHALLENGES 2005-2006 The year past, the year ahead
From the tragedy of wars and terrorism to efforts to build peace; from global cooperation and solidarity to go-it-alone attitudes; from the grassroots-on-up to the UN-on-down in working towards the Millennium Development Goals; from recovery after natural disasters to the ongoing fight against climate change; from the expansion of HIV/AIDS to the rapid growth of scientific knowledge; and from dictatorship and repression to freedom, human rights and democracy, IPS has brought you facts and insight into the pressing issues of a complex globalised world, and will continue to do so as we head into the new year.
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GENEVA, Jan 21 (IPS) - A busy negotiating schedule is lined up for this year at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The question remains whether negotiators will have to continue passing the time as the powers-that-be in Washington are consumed by pre-election politics, or if the technical solutions which they have been working on could, in fact, lead to a conclusion of the Doha Development Round.
TEHRAN, Jan 21 (IPS) - While Iranians have legitimate worries that their country may suffer a military attack by the United States or become a victim of more sanctions for its nuclear policies, analysts say that the real dangers in 2008 are internally generated ones.
WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (IPS) - The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has ruled Japan for all but one of the last 53 years. But the LDP's unpopularity, the rise of a strong second party with a charismatic leader and a limp economy may combine to upend Japanese politics in 2008.
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan 15 (IPS) - Last year, the United States woke up to the reality of hundreds of thousands of soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and began to grapple with what to do about it.
SAN DIEGO, California, Jan 14 (IPS) - Environmentally-friendly buildings have evolved from hippy habitats to office towers and shopping centres, becoming a far more commonplace presence in city skylines and communities throughout the United States, as well as overseas.
DHAKA, Jan 14 (IPS) - Bangladesh's military-backed interim government faced hard challenges on the political and economic fronts as it stepped into its second year on the weekend.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10 (IPS) - As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon begins his second year in office, he has refused to claim any tangible successes during 2007, nor has he laid out any clear-cut strategy to meet the political and economic challenges facing the United Nations in 2008.
HAVANA, Jan 4 (IPS) - Increasing food production is the main challenge to be faced by the Cuban economy this year, to improve people’s quality of life. It was one of the recurrent themes raised at the popular debates convened on the government’s initiative in the second half of 2007.
NEW YORK, Jan 2 (IPS) - The U.S. government's spotty record in obtaining convictions of people charged with providing "material support" to terrorist organisations is adding new impetus to the efforts of prominent constitutional lawyers to seek substantial changes in the law.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 2 (IPS) - The Brazilian economy is finally coming close to the dream of creating the "broad mass consumer market" announced in 2002 as a campaign promise by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But several hurdles still lie ahead.
WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (IPS) - The end of 2007 produced a telltale indication of what the New Year seems likely to bring to Iraq.
JERUSALEM, Jan 2 (IPS) - The year begins after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas renewed peace talks with Israel that had been frozen for seven years and agreeing with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to make every effort to forge a peace deal by the end of 2008 that would ensure the Palestinians an independent state.
PENANG, Jan 2 (IPS) - Malaysia enters what is widely expected to be an election year with its ruling coalition looking its frailest in recent times. Economic grievances, inter-religious disputes and unfulfilled pledges have spawned growing disillusionment with the administration of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi that could erode popular support for the ruling coalition.
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (IPS) - If the last days of 2007 are any indication, U.S. President George W. Bush’s last year in office is shaping up as grim and lonely.
BEIJING, Dec 30 (IPS) - For a former guerilla party that derives legitimacy by providing economic prosperity to 1.3 billion people, the revelation that Chinese Communist Party leaders, polled in a recent survey, saw surging inflation as the biggest threat facing them in 2008, was alarming.