News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2097
LATIN AMERICA: Biodiversity Superpower Faces Development Dilemma
- Inter Press Service
If Latin America is to sustain continued economic growth, it faces the dilemma of either threatening its rich biodiversity or transforming into a global leader in providing environmental services based on its unique ecosystems.
CLIMATE CHANGE: New Forest Agreement - REDD Hot Issue at Cancún
- Inter Press Service
A large number of social organisations are not pleased with the international convention on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) being negotiated at the COP16 climate summit.
Q&A: 'More Women Peacekeepers Is Not the Solution'
- Inter Press Service
For two decades, women around the world have marked 'Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence', which fall between the International Day Against Violence Against Women on Nov. 25 and International Human Rights Day on Dec. 10.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Lost in Cancún
- Inter Press Service
'The hurricane season officially ended on Nov. 30,' a local shopkeeper told this journalist reassuringly as she entered his store with her hair blown in every direction by the wind on a drizzly, cloudy day.
Quantifying Latin American Cattle Emissions a Vital Climate Tool
- Inter Press Service
Some of Latin America's major cattle-producing countries will begin working as a team in 2011 to quantify the greenhouse-effect gas emissions from their bovine industry -- and to come up with options for reducing them.
UGANDA: 'Why Waste ARVs on Sex Workers?'
- Inter Press Service
Sex workers, among the populations most at risk of HIV infection in Uganda, say they are yet to realise their right to health.
PAKISTAN: Too Many Nets, Too Little Fish
- Inter Press Service
The last time Moazzam Khan saw sawfish in the Arabian Sea was in 1984. 'At one time, salted and dried fish formed a large part of our exports,' recalls Khan, director general of the Karachi Fisheries Department. 'In the last 30 years, there may be other marine life that may have vanished of which we may not be aware.'
ZIMBABWE: Sixteen Days of Activism Not For All, Say Police
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of residents from civil society organisations marched in the streets of Bulawayo on Dec. 1 to mark the 16 days of Activism Against Violence Against Women and Girls . But sex workers and members of gay groups were barred by police from joining the demonstration.
CUBA: Foreign Ministry Explains Controversial 'Sexual Orientation' Vote to Activists
- Inter Press Service
Gay rights advocates in Cuba received an unprecedented response from Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, in a meeting held at the ministry itself, after they complained about this country’s support in the United Nations for an amendment seen as a step backwards from the government’s position against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Rights Groups Fear Wikileaks Backlash Against Activists
- Inter Press Service
Some of the United States' leading human rights organisations are concerned for the safety of human rights advocates in countries with repressive regimes, where disclosure by Wikileaks could put them in deadly harm.
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