News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 142
Cost of living crisis hits poorest the hardest, warns UNCTAD
- UN News
Billions of people are facing the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation due to rising food and energy prices amid rapid inflation and increasing debt, leaving the most vulnerable consumers in a dire situation, said the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD on Tuesday.
Smallholder Farmers in Uganda Recruit Black Soldier Fly for Green Fertiliser
- Inter Press Service
Kampala & Kayunga, Jul 19 (IPS) - The conflict in Ukraine has led to an increase in fertiliser prices in Uganda and neighbouring Kenya. Amidst the shortages, some farmers are shifting to a more sustainable way of enriching their soils using frass from the Black Soldier Fly.
Reject CPTPP, Stay out of New Cold War
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Jul 19 (IPS) - Joining or ratifying dubious trade deals is supposed to offer miraculous solutions to recent lacklustre economic progress. Such naïve advocacy is misleading at best, and downright irresponsible, even reckless, at worst.
Clean Energies Seek to Overcome Obstacles in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 18 (IPS) - The multitude of solar panels stands out along a dirt road in an unpopulated area. Although located just an hour's drive from Buenos Aires, the new solar park in the municipality of Escobar is in a place of silence and solitude, symbolic of the difficulties faced by renewable energies in making inroads in Argentina.
Kenya’s Kuruwitu corals are back, thanks to local conservation drive
- UN News
A small, quiet village in Kenya has found a new purpose in the fishing industry through a successful marine coral conservation project, the first of its kind in the Marine Protected Areas of the western side of the Indian Ocean.
A safe space for Venezuela’s indigenous women
- UN News
Venezuela's rural, remote, indigenous communities have been particularly affected by COVID-19 and the country's socio-economic crisis; community gardens help Wayúu women from Rio Negro to make ends meet, and provide a haven from violence.
Ensure peaceful and constitutional transfer of power in Sri Lanka, urges UN Resident Coordinator
- UN News
The head of the UN Country Team in Sri Lanka has urged senior politicians to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in line with the national Constitution, following weeks of protests that finally saw the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday.
Achieving the SDGs in Extraordinary Times
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Jul 15 (IPS) - The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises.
Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jul 14 (IPS) - While the world’s big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines and assuring their optimal functioning, barley no money has been invested in the hundreds of millions human workers, who are left shockingly unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.
World Faces Cascading Crises Causing Profound Suffering & Multiple Famines
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - In his opening address to the 2022 Ministerial meeting of the High-Level Political Forum on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, July 13-15.Our world is in deep trouble – and so too are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Time is running out. But there is still hope. Because we know what we need to do:
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