News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 1989
Q&A: Child Victims Have 'Leading Role' in Creating a Non-Violent Society
- Inter Press Service
Appointed to the gigantic task of building international understanding of violence against children and adolescents, 58-year-old Portuguese lawyer Marta Santos Pais is based in New York and works with a small staff of only seven people.
SIERRA LEONE: Growing Pains for Local Councils
- Inter Press Service
He was all over the place during the 2008 local council election campaign, but no one's seen the councillor since he won his seat, says Freetown journalist Ismael Bakarr. 'He just disappeared.'
Syria's Crackdown Undermines Claim for Seat in Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
When the General Assembly meets on May 20 to elect 15 new members for the Human Rights Council (HRC), the four candidates from the Asian Group - India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Syria - were until now considered certain winners for one primary reason: they remain uncontested on a 'clean slate' for four vacant uncompetitive Asian regional seats.
SRI LANKA: War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled
- Inter Press Service
It has been two years since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades long war, and life in general has begun to slowly edge back towards normalcy here. Not so for the country’s besieged media community, according to observers and journalists alike - reporting still feels hemmed in and muzzled, they say.
Drug-Related Violence Closing in on Mexican Capital
- Inter Press Service
The military offensive waged by the conservative government of President Felipe Calderón against drug cartels in northern Mexico has resulted in an appalling death toll and grief-stricken relatives mourning the victims, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Now the drug war is beginning to affect the capital, which had so far escaped the worst of the violence.
Dramatic End to Long Hunt
- Inter Press Service
In the middle of the night, in an affluent suburb a little over 50 kilometres north of Islamabad, Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was gunned down in a compound shielded by barbed wire-topped walls up to five-and-a-half metres high. He resisted, United States officials say, fighting till the death as he had vowed he would.
‘Good News’ on Holocaust Anniversary
- Inter Press Service
Israelis woke up in the morning of Holocaust Remembrance Day, switched on their radio, and heard unexpected 'good news'.
‘Transformational Moment’ for Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
Shabbir Hasan, 49, was woken up in the dead of the night to the sound of the 'roar of a really low-flying helicopter.' Hasan, a businessman, has lived in the hill station in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province all his life. The sleepy town is known for its educational institutions - and military establishments.
Food Price Hike Worsens Poverty in Asia
- Inter Press Service
An annual meeting of Asian finance ministers and central bank governors in Hanoi is set to address the fate of 64 million people in the region on the brink of extreme poverty. They are the worst affected by soaring food prices, which have hit record highs in the first two months of this year.
Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf
- Inter Press Service
Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both?
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