News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2018
Israel Accused of 'A Form of Ethnic Cleansing'
- Inter Press Service
'If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here,' says Israeli columnist Sefi Rachlevsky in the Israeli daily 'Haaretz'.
PAKISTAN: Citizens and NGOs Step Forward to End Illiteracy
- Inter Press Service
The man known as ‘Master Ayub’ holds classes for free, between three and seven o’clock. His classroom is a public park, and his students are street children six to 16 years of age who otherwise would be picking trash, begging, or slowly becoming petty thieves.
ECONOMY-LATIN AMERICA: 'Multilatinas' in a Globalised World
- Inter Press Service
Economic growth in Latin America is driving the expansion of corporations from this region throughout the world — even in countries of the industrialised North that formerly seemed out-of-reach.
Q&A: 'Microfinance Is Much More Than Just Credit'
- Inter Press Service
A day after U.S. assistant secretary of state for south and central Asian affairs Robert Blake appealed to the Bangladeshi government to reconsider its dismissal of 70-year-old microfinance guru Muhammad Yunus from the Grameen Bank, IPS spoke with the president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), currently the most comprehensive network of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the world.
WIKILEAKS: Australians Call For Legislation to Protect Whistleblowers
- Inter Press Service
Some Australians are convinced their government is sharing intelligence information with foreign powers about citizens implicated by documents released by Wikileaks.
Who Controls the Nuclear Control Agencies?
- Inter Press Service
As Japan struggles to confront a nuclear disaster that could be the worst in history, it seems clear that any discussion about the safety of nuclear energy should address the independence of regulatory agencies.
Libyan Rebels Form 'Interim Government'
- Inter Press Service
Libya's pro-democracy fighters have formed an 'interim government' even as forces backing the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, press ahead with attacks against them.
MOZAMBIQUE: Linette Olofsson - A Life Spent in Politics
- Inter Press Service
There is no way one can have a conversation with Linette Olofsson without being dragged into her collection of images about her community agricultural project in central Mozambican Province of Zambezia.
SOUTH AFRICA: Firebrand Politician Enters Mayoral Race
- Inter Press Service
The woman described by former South African President Nelson Mandela as his 'favorite opposition politician', Patricia de Lille, has thrown her hat in for the position of mayor of Cape Town.
Settlers Observe 'Day Of Rage' Pouring Wrath On Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
Israeli settlers observed their own 'Day of Rage' last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement structure by the Israeli authorities.
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