Global IssuesNews headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 7
The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 23 (IPS) - This week the 2024 annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address the multiple global crises, from climate catastrophes to unfettered capitalism, inequality, social injustice, wars and conflict.
Ukraine: Bucha and Irpin rise from the ashes of Russian military occupation
- UN News
When the Russian occupation of Bucha in the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine ended in March 2022, widespread destruction was revealed, and a UN commission concluded that war crimes had been committed against the civilian population. Two years on, life is returning to the town on Kyiv’s outskirts and nearby Irpin, which have been restored with UN support.
Pakistan’s Election Outcomes Leave Many Unhappy
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 22 (IPS) - Pakistan’s 8 February election has resulted in an uneasy compromise that few wanted or expected. There’s little indication the outcome is going to reverse recent regression in civic freedoms.
Climate and conflict collide on the high seas: UN warns of soaring costs and delays
- UN News
Attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea coupled with wider geopolitical and climate-related crises, are upending international trade, inflating costs and causing major delays, the UN’s trade and development body said on Thursday.
UN forum: Nations must collaborate now or risk further setbacks in sustainable development
- UN News
Today’s multilateral arrangements – global and regional organizations and major development banks – are “not up to the job” of helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the deputy UN chief said on Tuesday.
Making Chile’s Economy More Dynamic, Greener, and Inclusive
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Feb 19 (IPS) - Chile’s economy is at a crossroads. Strong policies have successfully brought down high inflation and reduced the large current account deficit that emerged during the pandemic. Increases in social benefits have provided some relief in response to discontent over inequality.
Imperialism, Globalisation and Its Discontents*
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 19 (IPS) - Imperialism continues to dominate the world. Globalisation is losing to some of its anti-theses, but imperialism still rules, increasingly by law, albeit in changing even contradictory ways.
UN Tax Convention is Historic Opportunity at Risk of Failing
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Feb 15 (IPS) - In late November, the UN General Assembly passed a landmark resolution signaling a start on working on a UN framework convention on taxation.
Start-ups Powering up Africas Solar Energy Ecosystem
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 14 (IPS) - Often referred to as the “Sun continent,” Africa receives more hours of bright sunlight than any other continent. But even with 60 per cent of the world’s solar resources, Africa has only one per cent of solar generation capacity, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
North Ignores Perfect Storm in Global South
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 14 (IPS) - A gathering ‘perfect storm’ – due to various developments, several quite deliberate – now threatens much devastation in the global South, likely to most hurt the poorest and most vulnerable.
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