Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 353
“Women in the UN working together to improve the lives of women worldwide”
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 02 (IPS) - This International Women's Day we celebrate women in the changing world of work, recognizing the need to fully realize women's working potential in order to achieve Agenda 2030. We know that when women earn money, they spend it on feeding their families and educating their children. It is estimated that if women farmers had the same access to resources as men, the number of hungry people in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million.
Valuing Women’s Unpaid Work
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 02 (IPS) - Women's work remains unaccounted for even though the issue of unpaid work carried out by women is being discussed globally at the policy, academic as well as practitioners' levels.
Stemming Illicit Financial Outflows
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb 28 (IPS) - International capital flows are now more than 60 times the value of trade flows. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is now of the view that large international financial transactions do not facilitate trade, and that excessive financial ‘elasticity' has been a major cause of recent financial crises.
These Women Cannot Celebrate Their Day
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 27 (IPS) - This is a story that one would wish to never have to write—the story of hundreds of millions of life-givers whose production and productivity have systematically been ‘quantified' in much detailed statistics, but whose abnegation, human suffering and denial of rights are subject to just words.
Avoid Patent Clauses in Trade Treaties that can Kill Millions
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Feb 27 (IPS) - Recently a very interesting article on why there are inequalities in access to health care and how medicine prices are beyond the reach of many people was published in The Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world.
Corruption: Promises, But Not Enough Progress from G20 Countries
- Inter Press Service
ROME/BERLIN, Feb 27 (IPS) - Open data is a pretty simple concept: governments should publish information about what they do to fight corruption– data that can be freely used, modified and shared by anyone for any purpose, according to two major international anti-corruption watchdogs. This is particularly important in the fight against corruption.
Maritime Boundary Dispute Masks Need for Economic Diversity in Timor-Leste
- Inter Press Service
MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb 27 (IPS) - Juvinal Dias has first-hand experience of mistreatment at the hands of a foreign power. Born in 1981 in Tutuala, a village in the far east of Timor-Leste, Dias' family fled into the jungle following the 1975 invasion by Indonesia.
Five Key G20 Powers Break Promise to Help Tackle Corruption
- Inter Press Service
ROME/BERLIN, Feb 23 (IPS) - Five key G20 countries are failing to meet commitments to publish data that helps tackle corruption, warns a new report by international anti-corruption watchdogs.
Humankind’s Ability to Feed Itself, Now in Jeopardy
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 22 (IPS) - Mankind's future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a new United Nations' report.
Trump Marks the End of a Cycle
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 21 (IPS) - Let us stop debating what newly-elected US President Trump is doing or might do and look at him in terms of historical importance. Put simply, Trump marks the end of an American cycle!
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