Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 430
Exodus in the Bay of Bengal
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 05 (IPS) - For a while it went unnoticed: a boatload of migrants here, a vessel full of refugees there. But since 2012, the complex and unregulated movement of human beings through South and Southeast Asia– and the fate of those who put their lives in the hands of smugglers and at the mercy of the high seas – is becoming bleaker with each passing day.
The U.N. at 70: A Time for Reflection and Reform
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 05 (IPS) - Seventy years since its inception, the United Nations remains at the core of the multilateral system. The world body, together with the Bretton Woods institutions, was conceived in the mid-1940s by the architects of the postwar order with the central aim of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war on the one hand, and the need to reconstruct and revive the global economy on the other.
8.2 Million Iraqis In Need of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 05 (IPS) - As fighting drags on between Iraqi armed forces and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), millions of refugees caught between the warring groups are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
Opinion: For a New Generation of Climate Activists, It's Too Late to Wait
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Jun 04 (IPS) - I remember pretending not to be so excited. There was this nervous energy that kicked up my heels as I prowled through the U.N. negotiations that afternoon. You could feel it all around. Circling our meeting point like sharks quietly rounding our prey. If you knew what to look for, you would know exactly what was about to happen.
‘Legal Friends’ Fight Gender Violence in Rural India
- Inter Press Service
BETUL, India, Jun 04 (IPS) - Mamta Bai, 36, distinctly remembers the first time the police came to her village: it was December 2014 and her neighbour, Purva Bai, had just been beaten unconscious by her alcoholic husband, prompting Mamta to make a distress call to the nearest station.
Thirsty in Nicaragua, the Country Where ‘Agua’ Is Part of Its Name
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Jun 04 (IPS) - Nicaragua, the Central American country with the most abundant water sources, and where water – "agua" in Spanish – is even part of its name, is suffering one of its worst water crises in half a century, fuelled by climate change, deforestation and erosion.
As Jamaica's Prime Forests Decline, Row Erupts Over Protection
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTON, Jun 04 (IPS) - For Jamaica, planting more trees as a way to build resilience is one of the highest priorities of the government's climate change action plan. So when Cockpit Country residents woke up to bulldozers in the protected area, they rallied to get answers from the authorities.
‘Ethical Fashion’ Champions Marginalised Artisans from South
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jun 04 (IPS) - "Work is dignity," says Simone Cipriani. "People want employment, not charity."
Pacific Civil Society Swings Out Against Free Trade Agreement
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Jun 03 (IPS) - Fourteen Pacific Island Forum countries are currently locked in negotiations with their two largest economic neighbours, Australia and New Zealand, to forge a new regional free trade agreement called ‘PACER Plus', which supporters believe will boost economic growth in the region.
Climate Fund Rolls Out Amid Hopes It Stays "Green"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (IPS) - After a difficult infancy, the Green Climate Fund is finally getting some legs. The big question now is what direction it will toddle off in.
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