News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 595

  1. Women in War-Ravaged Afghanistan Fight Back for Their Rights

    - Inter Press Service

    KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov 05 (IPS) - Bullets, bombs, tyranny and torture. Children crying for food, civilians struggling to survive, women unable to walk out of their homes freely. When we are not under siege from bombs and landmines, ordinary Afghans suffer from hunger, natural hazards and poverty.

  2. UN at 75: Slow Death or a New Direction - Part 2

    - Inter Press Service

    LONDON, Nov 04 (IPS) - Kofi Annan's Secretary-General-ship was a second honeymoon for the UN, coming six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall it was a moment of hope and alignment between the major powers of which he took ample advantage.

  3. Solving the Challenge of Food Security Key to Peacebuilding in the Sahel

    - Inter Press Service

    BONN, Germany, Nov 03 (IPS) - In 2013, when Jamila Ben Baba started her company, the first privately owned slaughterhouse in Mali, she did so in the midst of a civil war as Tuareg rebels grouped together in an attempt to administer a new northern state called Azawad.

  4. UN at 75: Slow Death or a New Direction - Part 1

    - Inter Press Service

    LONDON, Nov 03 (IPS) - You cannot change the wind; but you can bend the sail - a favourite African proverb of Kofi Annan

    Let me begin with an appeal to our venerable friend, the UN: get down on the ground with the grandchildren. Just having celebrated its 75th birthday, we can hear your knees creak! The UN, for as long as I have known it up close - since its thirties - has often seemed prematurely old.

  5. Africa Must not Assume a ‘Business as Usual’ Approach to COVID-19 Recovery

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Nov 03 (IPS) - The corona virus pandemic is impacting Africa's population in quite differentiated ways and is significantly entrenching inequality. At the greatest risk are lives and livelihoods of the poor.

  6. Building Blocks for Nuclear Ban Treaty: NPT & Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Nov 02 (IPS) - The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will become binding law for participating states on January 22, 2021. Entry into force was triggered on October 24, the date marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, when Honduras become the 50th state to ratify the TPNW, reaching the threshold set by the treaty.

  7. Driving Climate Change from the Top in the Dominican Republic

    - Inter Press Service

    SANTO DOMINGO, Nov 02 (IPS) - When President Luis Abinader arrived at his inauguration in an electrically driven car as a symbolic gesture of his Government's intentions to make sustainable development one of its main objectives – he signalled the start of addressing climate change commitments in the country.

  8. The Rape of India's Dalit Women: It’s All about Power & Subordination

    - Inter Press Service

    HYDERABAD, India, Nov 02 (IPS) - Shabnam*, a young woman from Northern India's Haryana state, is two years away from becoming a law graduate. She sees parallels between her own rape and that of the 19-year-old Maha Dalit woman whose brutal rape and torture by a group of men from a "dominant" or "higher" caste in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh triggered nationwide protests.

  9. Economic Trends and What’s Important in Life

    - Inter Press Service

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    SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 02 (IPS) - US third quarter GDP numbers released two weeks ago delighted stock markets and President Trump. Output had picked up by 7.4%, annualised as 33.1%, the largest quarterly economic growth on record, almost double the old record of 3.9% (annualised as 16.7%) in the first quarter of 1950, seven decades ago.

  10. COVID-19: A Global Survey Shows Worrying Signs of Vaccine Hesitancy

    - Inter Press Service

    Nov 01 (IPS) - It has been nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a "public health emergency of international concern". Since then, more than 44 million cases have been recorded and over one million lives lost. Economic costs measure in trillions of dollars. Global recovery will take years.

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