News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 144
All rural workers deserve social protection coverage: New ILO report
- UN News
Social protection for rural workers “remains a dream”, according to a report launched in Geneva on Thursday by the Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), part of the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO).
Sanctions Are a Boomerang
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Jul 07 (IPS) - Economic sanctions against countries whose behavior is reproached by the West operate as punishment although they fail in their declared political objectives, and in cases such as Venezuela the contrast is clearly on display in the windows of high-end stores that sell imported goods.
Sri Lanka's misery should be warning to us all on global food, fuel and finance crisis: UNDP
- UN News
Countries already under pressure from the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic turmoil and human misery as Sri Lanka, with the war in Ukraine dragging on, unless the international community agrees to radical financial measures to help countries saddled with debt, the UN said on Thursday.
Recovering Edible Food from Waste Provides Environmental and Social Solutions in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 06 (IPS) - For 30 years, Tomasa Chávez visited the Central Market of Buenos Aires and rummaged through the tons of fruits and vegetables that the stallholders discarded, in search of food. Today she continues to do so, but there is a difference: since 2021 she has been one of the workers hired to recover food as part of a formal program launched by the Central Market.
UN and UEFA score Sustainable Goals as women’s Euro tournament kicks off
- UN News
On Wednesday, the first day of the Women’s Euro 2022 football tournament, the United Nations launched Football For The Goals (FFTG), an initiative aimed at tapping into the power of the game to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s blueprint for a fairer, greener future.
The Rape of the Indian Ocean; The Story of the Yellow Fin Tuna
- Inter Press Service
ROME / LONDON, Jul 05 (IPS) - Over the last past several decades marine fish stocks worldwide have been under intense threat. There have been many high sounding declarations and agreements to reduce catch effort, to use more environmentally friendly fishing gear, to prevent illegal fishing and to impose “closed seasons” to allow stocks to recover.
Animals are Core to Pandemic Prevention We Must Strengthen Their Defences
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jul 05 (IPS) - World Zoonoses Day, which will be commemorated on July 6, celebrates the success of the first vaccine which was created against the zoonotic disease ‘rabies’. It was developed by Louis Pasteur, a French biologist on 6 July, 1985. The ongoing discussions at the World Health Organization (WHO) around a new, landmark ‘pandemic prevention treaty’ shows that the world is starting to act on the lessons it learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 05 (IPS) - Long seen as means to seek advantage on the pretext of providing mutual benefit, free trade agreements (FTAs) may increasingly be used as economic weapons in the emerging new Cold War.
Nature-Positive Ventures Crucial for Africa's future, say experts at Africa Green Economy Conference
- Inter Press Service
Toronto, Jul 04 (IPS) - Africa’s unique natural capital assets were the center of conversation at the 2022 Africa Green Economy Conference. Held in a hybrid format from June 27 to 30, participants gathered to discuss the value of nature in Africa’s economy and call for more nature-positive ventures in development.
What COVID-19 taught us about risk in a complex, inter-connected world
- UN News
A new UN report has shed fresh light on the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed cascading risks, particularly on vulnerable people, worldwide.
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