Global Issues
News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2364
ASIA: ‘Mekong Media Should Ask Tougher Questions’ — Editor
- Inter Press Service
Countries in the Mekong region have indeed opened their borders and former foes become friends, but several of them are still ruled by authoritarian governments that put limits on media and other freedoms.
CLIMATE CHANGE: World Bank Touts Carbon Market
- Inter Press Service
The World Bank proudly defended the global carbon market in the Danish capital Tuesday for its 'contribution' to efforts to mitigate climate change, in spite of criticism from civil society.
URUGUAY: Personal Touch Gets Kids Back in the Classroom
- Inter Press Service
Camila lasted just one day at the junior high school in Gruta de Lourdes, a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital. This brief taste of secondary education proved to be as difficult and boring as she had been warned by her cousins, who had dropped out of school before her. But then she found a special kind of classroom that changed everything.
RIGHTS-ZAMBIA: ‘Justice Prevailed’ — Says New Editor Acquitted of False Charges
- Inter Press Service
Chansa Kabwela faced a five-year jail sentence when she sent photographs of a woman giving birth without help in the country’s largest hospital to government officials.
FINLAND: Biodiesel Breakthrough or Environment Nightmare?
- Inter Press Service
As Finnish energy major Neste Oil scales up production of its ‘green’ diesel NExBTL, environmental activists fear that more land will go under palm oil plantations at the expense of Southeast Asia’s threatened rainforests.
UGANDA: Mob Justice Increases as Court Backlogs Escalate
- Inter Press Service
Sam Kubo had gone to lease out his 600 hectares of land in Kayunga district. But instead he went to his death.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Brazil Defends Biofuels
- Inter Press Service
Being the world’s largest producer and exporter of ethanol it is natural for the Brazilian government and its partners to push biofuels as the only real alternative for a world trying wean itself away from fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
Q&A: ‘Nuclear Energy Is Not a Solution to Climate Change’
- Inter Press Service
As the threat of nuclear weapons looms large over the very existence of life on earth, Dr Sue Wareham, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons’ (ICAN) Australian board member, is calling for a speedy abolition of these weapons and the rejection of nuclear power as a solution to climate change.
AFGHANISTAN: Troop Surge Spurs Obama’s Popularity
- Inter Press Service
A poll released today finds that support among the United States public for President Barack Obama’s troop 'surge' in Afghanistan has risen sharply since he delivered his speech last week. But, a plurality of the U.S. public do not believe Obama will follow through on his commitment to begin a withdrawal of U.S. forces in 18-months.
CLIMATE CHANGE: No Closed Doors at Parallel Summit
- Inter Press Service
Two blocks from the Metro station on the busy M-1 Line, the first indication that pedestrians are slipping into the space-time continuum known as the 'Free City' is the ubiquitous graffiti and occasional 'boom!' of small explosive devices like M-80s echoing through the cobbled streets.
Powered by
Web feed for Trade, Economy, & Related Issues news headlines