News headlines for “Third World Debt Undermines Development”, page 1398
BRAZIL: Ambitious Development Plan to Cut Inequality
- Inter Press Service
Brazil will be 'radically less unequal' and less vulnerable to shocks from the outside when it celebrates 200 years of independence from Portugal, if the Strategic Affairs Secretariat's (SAE) plans for the next 12 years are put into practice, according to a high-ranking official.
TRINIDAD: Women Demand a Real Gender Policy
- Inter Press Service
A few days after she created history by becoming the first woman to be elected as opposition leader and the leader of a major political party in Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad Bissessar was kicking mad at the 'misunderstanding' of the role of women and their contribution to society.
ENVIRONMENT-MEXICO: Green Areas to the Highest Bidder
- Inter Press Service
Activists in Mexico complain that the deforestation threatening the environmental health of Mexico has been accentuated by the granting of public areas to private companies.
Q&A: 'Israeli Siege Causing De-development of Gaza'
- Inter Press Service
For the first time since September 2006, Mahmoud Abu Rahma, a leading figure in the Palestinian human rights group Al Mezan, has been granted permission to travel outside Gaza.
Q&A: Qualified Women Have Better Chance in Top Jobs
- Inter Press Service
Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time when the world body has placed a high priority on gender empowerment.
EUROPE: Green Finance Wise, or Otherwise
- Inter Press Service
A plan to give the European Union's lending arm a beefed-up mandate for financing the fight against climate change has drawn a sceptical response from campaigners on green and economic justice issues.
COSTA RICA: Headhunting First-World Seniors
- Inter Press Service
The Costa Rican government has declared retirement communities, aimed at attracting U.S. pensioners, to be 'of national interest.' Plans to create 'retirement clusters' providing complete health services for older adults are seen as a profitable prospect for this Central American country.
SOUTH AFRICA: Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness
- Inter Press Service
While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness.
INDIA: No Stopping Reserved Seats for Women in Parliament
- Inter Press Service
With assured backing from India's main opposition groups, the ruling Congress party hopes to see voted through in the upper house of Parliament Monday a bill reserving 33 percent of seats in national and provincial legislatures for women.
Q&A:: 11.8 Seconds That Broke Taboos for Women
- Inter Press Service
Dressed in an abaya (long, loose gown worn by women to cover their dress) and a headscarf, Naseem Hameed cannot be recognised as she alights from a crowded, rickety public bus to reach her destination — the sports stadium.
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