News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 149
If Women Dont Lead, Well Lose the Battle Against Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jun 01 (IPS) - We are in the midst of so many crises across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: the most unequal, water scarce, least democratic region in the world, with the widest gender gap, multiple armed conflicts raging across it, and fragile states on the brink.
Restore Land to Tackle Multiple Crises
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Jun 01 (IPS) - Land is our lifeline on this planet. Yet ‘business as usual’ in how we manage land resources puts our own future on planet Earth in jeopardy, with half of humanity already facing the impacts of land degradation.
Ukraine: ‘Perfect storm’ threatens economic devastation in developing world
- UN News
Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine is causing immense suffering and devastation there, but also creating a “perfect storm” which could devastate the economies of “many developing countries”, the UN chief warned on Wednesday.
Developing Countries and the Perfect Storm - Part I: What Should Developed Countries Do?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 01 (IPS) - Developing countries – in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America and in the Middle East - are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the climate change crisis, the debt crisis and, on top of all this, a global recession. The crises have overlapped, and each has added to the problems created by the previous ones.
“Gun Control” at the Pentagon? Don’t Even Think About It
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jun 01 (IPS) - New outcries for gun control have followed the horrible tragedies of mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo. “Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in New York, to far too many places where innocents have died,” President Biden declared over the weekend during a university commencement address.
Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - US and allied economic sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine have not achieved their declared objectives. Instead, they are worsening economic stagnation and inflation worldwide. Worse, they are exacerbating hunger, especially in Africa.
Davos Fails on Financial Transparency - And Everything Else
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 31 (IPS) - At this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos which ended last week, the attention of the world’s financial and economic elite was captured by the war in Ukraine whose president Volodimir Zelensky used his address to call to “complete withdrawal of foreign businesses from the Russian market”, despite 380 of the largest multinational companies still operating in Russia.
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans Saving Countrys Dead Economy
- Inter Press Service
Harare, May 31 (IPS) - Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives.
A Global Food Crisis: Shortage Amidst Plenty
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, May 30 (IPS) - India is being asked by the US government and the IMF to reconsider its decision to suspend wheat exports. Their cited concern is that export restrictions will exacerbate food shortages amidst Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But the argument does not stand ground technically or morally.
UN 'Deeply Troubled' by Impending Cuts on Development Aid by Rich Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (IPS) - The four-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has triggered a hefty increase in military spending among Western nations and a rise in humanitarian and military assistance to the beleaguered country, is now threatening to undermine the flow of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the world’s poorer nations.
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