Articles by IPS World Desk
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Secret Companies Allow Corrupt Cash to Flood Key Real Estate Markets
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – The governments of Australia, Canada, UK and USA need to close legal loopholes to prevent the corrupt elite from laundering the proceeds of grand corruption in their local real estate markets, the Berlin-based Transparency International said on March 29 in a new report, Doors Wide Open: Corruption and Real Estate in Key Markets.
→ read full articleClimate Breaks All Records: Hottest Year, Lowest Ice, Highest Sea Level
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – Climate has, once more, broken all records, with the year 2016 making history-highest-ever global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, unabated sea level rise and ocean heat. And what is an even worse– extreme and unusual trends continue in 2017.
→ read full articleSeven Scary Facts about Widening Gender Gap
IPS World Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2017
Women across the globe are facing new threats, which risk dismantling decades of hard-won rights and derailing the effort to end extreme poverty, an international confederation of civil society organisations has revealed ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
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