News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2077
HIV/AIDS: Fund Rejection Worries Health Campaigners
- Inter Press Service
Health rights activists in Malawi are expressing concern over the recent rejection of the country’s proposal for close to six hundred million dollars to the Global Fund to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria between 2011 and 2016.
ECUADOR: Delayed Return of Fishing's 'Golden' Years
- Inter Press Service
'This year there haven't been many 'dorados', but they're beginning to appear now,' Ramón Díaz says hopefully as he disembarks with his fellow fishermen after spending the entire night out on the water.
HUMAN RIGHTS: Mauritian Sex Workers Demand Rights
- Inter Press Service
'Sex workers rights are human rights', close to a hundred people shouted during a recent march in Rose-Hill, a major town in Mauritius. Their aim was to sensitise the population, particularly the parliamentarians, to the state of sex workers on the island.
PAKISTAN: Blasphemy Law Carries Over Into New Year
- Inter Press Service
In the face of protests and a nationwide strike called by hardline religious parties against any changes to the blasphemy law, Pakistani Christians have had little to cheer about over the Christmas and New Year season.
U.N. Threatens Ivorian Leaders With Possible War Crimes
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations has warned the beleaguered president of Cote d’Ivoire and his military leaders that they may well go the way of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir: face charges of war crimes and genocide before the international criminal court.
HEALTH-BANGLADESH: Equity Key to Cutting Child Mortality
- Inter Press Service
Poverty remains one of the problems of Bangladesh, but it has made, and continues to make, key progress when it comes to preventing deaths among its children.
Tunisian Unrest Stirs Arab World
- Inter Press Service
As Western countries were busy celebrating Christmas and dealing with air traffic holiday delays because of snow blizzards, the tranquil North African country of Tunisia was going through events that would have been thought unthinkable just three weeks ago - public unrest that saw thousands demonstrate against the regime of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
DEVELOPMENT: Running Out of Engineers
- Inter Press Service
As Brazil looks ahead to hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the country is struggling to line up the technical workers necessary for these projects, officials say.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Crackdowns Do Little to Address Sex Work
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in China are lauding a sweeping crackdown on prostitution across the country in recent months. But the sex trade continues to thrive in this booming nation, while services and support for women working in the industry remain inadequate, experts say.
BURMA: Junta’s Drug ‘Exports’ to China Test Economic Ties
- Inter Press Service
As military-ruled Burma prepares to unveil its new political cast, an enduring link between the junta and the country’s notorious drug lords is poised to come under the spotlight.
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