News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 243
Slavery Modernises, Adapts to Stay Alive in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 05 (IPS) - "Slave labour is not declining; it has taken on new forms and is growing; it expanded to new sectors where it did not previously exist," said Ivanete da Silva Sousa, an activist in the fight against modern-day slavery in northern Brazil.
Many Milestones but Painfully Slow Progress Towards Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 05 (IPS) - The narrative surrounding women's rights in 2020 carries much hope and possibility. A new decade is ushering in important anniversaries and milestones: 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, 110 years since the birth of International Women's Day and the 10-year countdown to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Coronavirus Exposes Global Economic Vulnerability
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 04 (IPS) - As the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 threatens a global pandemic, major stock markets around the world have suffered their worst performance since the 2008 financial crush.
Personal Conviction Versus Fandom: The Case of Mitt Romney
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Mar 03 (IPS) - "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. They were immediately silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots." 1 -- Umberto Eco
The great American impeachment show has ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. The dirt was washed away from President Trump, the perfect Teflon Guy. Maybe his invulnerability comes from the fact that he appears to be more of a brand than a real person, adapted to a frame of mind that increasingly dominates social media – cheap entertainment, shallowness, vulgarity, invectives, and catchy phrases without support in well-founded facts. Trump is all and nothing, a shape shifting trickster pretending to be the role model for voiceless masses.
Mexico’s Battle with Obesity
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 28 (IPS) - Paradoxically, when the number of people suffering from undernourishment or hunger has risen in the world, so, too, have those afflicted by overweight and obesity.
Latin America's second largest economy, Mexico, for instance, is currently battling one of the world's largest epidemics of obesity and its success is bound to be emulated by countries of the South.
The numbers involved are staggering. The director-general of the National Institute of Public Health, Dr Juan Rivera told the Financial Times that "seventy five percent of adults and 35 percent of children and adolescents are overweight or obese… The State has a duty to protect public health."
The Italian Pyramid: Scientific Observatory at the Top of the World
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Italy, Feb 27 (IPS) - Hello! Are you Italian?
No, I'm from Nepal.
Ops.Kaji Bista is the staff manager of the Ev-K2-CNR's innovative Pyramid International Laboratory/Observatory (known as the Italian Pyramid) at 5,050 m a.s.l. located in Lobouche.
Lucky Trump Looking Smug
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 (IPS) - Meeting the President of the Republic of Korea in September 2019, President Donald J Trump bragged that the "US economy is the envy of the world". Trump reiterated such claims in his State of the Union address in early February, hailing his own policies with typical humility.
Three Financial Firms Could Change the Direction of the Climate Crisis – and Few People Have Any Idea
- Inter Press Service
Feb 25 (IPS) - A silent revolution is happening in investing. It is a paradigm shift that will have a profound impact on corporations, countries and pressing issues like climate change. Yet most people are not even aware of it.
Preserving World’s Biodiversity: Negotiations Convene at FAO Headquarters
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 24 (IPS) - "The world out there is watching and waiting for results," Elizabeth Maruma Mrema warns while talking to IPS regarding the preservation of biodiversity of our planet.
India’s Orange Farmers Search for Sustainable Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
JAMPUI HILLS, India, Feb 24 (IPS) - India's Jampui Hills – a picturesque hill station in the north eastern province — has been know for decades as the Orange Bowl. But a changing climate has led farmers on a search for sustainable agriculture.
Hillol Datta, 26, travelled for two days from Kolkata to Jampui Hills – a picturesque hill station in the north eastern province of India – to see its fruit-laden orange orchards. However, after driving for several hours, all that the young traveller saw were bald patches along the hill slopes and scattered rows of areca (nut) palm trees.
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