News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2019
HEALTH: Scare Haunts HIV/AIDS Patients in Ukraine
- Inter Press Service
Fears are growing among HIV/AIDS sufferers in the Ukraine amid claims from some patients that they have been denied life-saving medicines by authorities as a crackdown is launched on drug substitution therapy.
SRI LANKA: Parliamentarian Breaks Silence on Domestic Violence
- Inter Press Service
She became famous playing the role of ‘Pabha’, a poor young girl in love with a rich man in a long running hit television series here. But these days, Upeksha Suwarnamali is better known for her real-life role: A victim of domestic violence turned champion of abused women.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Managing Mental Illness on a Few Pesos a Month
- Inter Press Service
Cristina, 41, was able to support the last two of her five children despite the fact that she could neither read nor write. Raised by a step-grandfather, she started working as a house cleaner when she was 14 and had the misfortune to have children by two alcoholic and abusive men.
JAPAN: Vulnerability and Uncertainty Prevail In Wake of Nuclear Disaster
- Inter Press Service
Accidents at four nuclear power reactors hit by the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima have left thousands of residents in the vicinity facing an uncertain future as they prepare for evacuation orders to protect them from dangerous radiation contamination.
Sugar Cane and Ethanol Boom Drives Development in Southern Brazil
- Inter Press Service
The roads are exceptionally good and numerous here, in contrast with other parts of Brazil, but the monotony of the landscape is not inviting to tourists. Sugar cane fields stretch to the horizon along a 400-km stretch of highway to the north of São Paulo.
ZAMBIA: Young Voters Push Grassroots Issues to the Fore
- Inter Press Service
Concina Haajila was only a year old in 1991 when Zambia turned from 27 years of autocracy and dictatorship to political pluralism and democratic governance. During the past 20 years she and millions of her peers have grown to adulthood and become disenchanted with the politics of their nation which have swung from an issue base to hero worship and personal purse enlargement.
MALAWI: Enterprising Approach Underlies New Sanitation Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The market can do better: a sanitation and hygiene campaign to be launched in Malawi plans to apply this tenet to improve cleanliness and public health the country's cities.
BOLIVIA: Cochabamba Still Thirsty
- Inter Press Service
There is still no apparent solution to the unsatisfied demand for drinking water in Cochabamba, 11 years after this central Bolivian city made international headlines with a popular uprising that halted the privatisation of water service.
ECUADOR: Water Management Transcends 'Public or Private' Debate
- Inter Press Service
For one day, civil servants are trading their desks for the chilly highland plains in a rural community 3,500 metres above sea level on the outskirts of the Ecuadorian capital, where they are helping to plant native trees.
Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone
- Inter Press Service
Canadian Kevin Freedman is celebrating World Water Day Tuesday by living on 25 litres of water a day, instead of the North American average of 330 litres per day. And he has enlisted 31 others in his 'Water Conservation Challenge' to go water- lean, using just 25 litres per day for cooking, drinking, cleaning, and sanitation for the entire month of March.
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