Global Issues
News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2434
MIDEAST: NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
- Inter Press Service
This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
ECONOMY: 'Africa Is Paying Most for a Crisis Not of its Making'
- Inter Press Service
The global economic crisis has hit the African continent especially hard despite not being involved in its making, civil society organisations gathered in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo heard at the fifth people’s summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
RIGHTS-ITALY: Trafficking From Nigeria Rises Sharply
- Inter Press Service
An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy.
INDIA: Deeper Probe Sought on Chopper Crashes Killing Politicians
- Inter Press Service
After an aviation accident claimed yet another of India’s top leaders recently, experts are calling for stricter controls on the use of helicopters and small aircraft by politicians in a hurry to reach their destinations.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Crisis Chews Women Up, Spits Them Out
- Inter Press Service
Vanessa Madrigal was working as a secretary for a private clinic in the Costa Rican capital, but only a month after returning from maternity leave she was fired, struck by one of the waves of layoffs that have swept across Central America in the wake of the global financial tsunami.
LATIN AMERICA: 'The More Guns, the More Violence'
- Inter Press Service
Traffic in light weapons and small arms is one of Latin America's major disarmament concerns, because they fuel urban violence, especially in countries like Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil.
CUBA: Scientists, Farmers Fighting Climate Change - Together
- Inter Press Service
Cuba is facing the challenge of boosting agricultural output under difficult climate conditions and on soils badly deteriorated by erosion, salinity and other problems. And scientists have a strategic role to play, provided they do not sit in their laboratories but get out into the fields where the action is.
BRAZIL: Artistic Energy as Antidote to Exclusion
- Inter Press Service
Putting the power of art to the test in extreme situations has become an unintended but necessary task for the Axé Project, a Brazilian non-governmental organisation (NGO) aimed at creating the conditions for street kids and other at-risk children to overcome educational, family and community exclusion.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: ‘The Problem Is We All Work in Silos’
- Inter Press Service
As secretary-general of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in September 1994, Nafis Sadik had described as a 'quantum leap' efforts to reinforce commitments in addressing infant and maternal mortality, education and reproductive health and family planning.
HEALTH: Asian Countries Race to Produce Vaccine for H1N1 Virus
- Inter Press Service
The race to mass-produce vaccines for the lethal H1N1 virus has attracted contenders from Asia’s developing countries, confirming a noticeable expansion of a field that has been dominated by flu vaccine production centres in Europe and North America.
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