News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2015
Global Compact Rejects Independent Panel's Criticism
- Inter Press Service
An independent UN body has criticized the Global Compact, the largest initiative for corporate social responsibility, for not sufficiently monitoring the human rights and environmental commitments of participating companies.
African Union Urges Libya Dialogue
- Inter Press Service
The Libyan government has agreed to a range of proposals from the African Union at a high level meeting held in Addis Ababa Friday, including democratic reforms and talks with the rebels.
South African Farmers Set Up in Congo
- Inter Press Service
In the hope of strengthening its agricultural production, the Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 hectares of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers.
New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts
- Inter Press Service
In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall Thursday, chanting 'The people united will never be defeated!'
Heaviest Ever Floods in Northern Namibia
- Inter Press Service
North-central Namibia is experiencing the heaviest floods ever recorded, but unlike in previous years, the area is fully prepared.
ECUADOR: Catholics Demand Removal of Far-Right Bishop
- Inter Press Service
The appointment of an ultra-conservative priest as apostolic administrator of the diocese of Sucumbíos, in northeastern Ecuador, triggered open rebellion among a large proportion of the area's Catholics, with the support of civil society organisations and even of President Rafael Correa himself.
DR CONGO: Beauty of a Bean Wins Farmers' Hearts
- Inter Press Service
Smallholder farmers in Bandundu Province are boosting their harvests with the help of the sweetly-named velvet bean.
TURKEY: Old Colonial Rivalries Revive over Libya
- Inter Press Service
Turkish volte-face Thursday evening to make a sizeable military contribution to NATO's intervention in the Libyan crisis, after two weeks of fierce opposition to the Alliance's mingling with Arab affairs, has further blurred Ankara's position in the Northern African conflict.
Public Momentum Builds Against Nukes
- Inter Press Service
Willing or not, the handful of nations armed with nuclear bombs will likely find it ever more difficult in the next few years to reject growing international opinion in support of complete abolition of nuclear weapons, anti-nukes activists and politicians say.
Foreign Labourers Targeted Throughout Bahrain
- Inter Press Service
As protests in Bahrain continue, increasingly migrant workers are being victimised in violent hate crimes.
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