News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2098
SPAIN: Wikileaks Revelations Put Pressure on Justice Officials
- Inter Press Service
The highest authorities of Spain's judicial system will have to explain to the Congress of Deputies their repeated refusals to bring U.S. soldiers to trial for the 2003 killing of journalist José Couso in Baghdad. The recent diplomatic cables made public by the whistleblower organisation Wikileaks reveal contacts with U.S. authorities aimed at preventing a trial.
HAITI: Popular Anger Unabated over Chaotic Polls
- Inter Press Service
Furious demonstrations continued across Haiti on Wednesday following the Nov. 28 highly contested election in which thousands found themselves unable to vote.
POLITICS: U.N. Faces Hurdles As It Seeks Mediator’s Role in Burma
- Inter Press Service
Barely a week after a ranking United Nations official visited military-ruled Burma, the country’s strongman has sharply reminded the global body about the challenges that await any envoy who refuses to march in step with the junta.
COLOMBIA: Climate Science Reaching Out for Traditional Farmers' Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
The wide-ranging knowledge about climate variation possessed by native people and other small farmers, such as the people in one region of Colombia, is almost a perfect match to scientific measurements recorded on high-tech instruments.
The Roof Is Now the Field
- Inter Press Service
'We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now,' says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip.
AFRICA: Food Versus Biofuels Debate Continues
- Inter Press Service
'We’re going to Cancún no better off than we were in Copenhagen,' said Thuli Makama, the director of Friends of the Earth Swaziland, as she prepared to leave for the climate negotiations in Mexico.
Japan Under Fire for Abandoning Kyoto Pact
- Inter Press Service
Japanese NGOs feel that Prime Minister Naoto Kan's categorical statement in parliament on Monday that his government would not under any circumstances be party to a continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was signed in that historic city in 1997, went 'beyond irony'.
LATIN AMERICA: More Education and Cash Transfers Needed to Fight Inequality
- Inter Press Service
As the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean get back on track with the economic growth and poverty reduction they were achieving prior to the global economic crisis, improvements in education and cash transfers to households with children are emerging as key tools to begin to defeat inequality.
ECUADOR: Oil Shake-Up Means Flat Fees for Foreign Companies
- Inter Press Service
As the dust settles following contract negotiations with foreign oil companies, Ecuador is looking at a new map for its petroleum industry and trying to determine what it will mean in economic terms for this OPEC-member nation.
SRI LANKA: Doctors Put Life During Conflict Under Microscope
- Inter Press Service
During the last phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2008, information on the intensified fighting had slowed to a trickle. But in their November 2010 submissions to a government commission looking into the final days of the conflict, a group of doctors who served in the war zone have shed light on living conditions that were 'not fit for even animals'.
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