Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 463
Cuban Diplomacy Looks Towards Both Brussels and Washington
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jan 19 (IPS) - Cuba has decided to move ahead in its talks with the European Union towards an agreement on cooperation parallel to the negotiations aimed at normalising relations with the United States after more than half a century of hostility.
In India’s Western Gujarat State, Sustainable Energy Starts With the Sun
- Inter Press Service
BARODA, India, Jan 19 (IPS) - It began with an experiment to install photovoltaic cells over an irrigation canal that forms part of the Sardar Sarovar canal network – a massive hydel power project across the River Narmada that irrigates some 1.8 million hectares of arable land in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Pacific Islands Call for New Thinking to Implement Post-2015 Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jan 19 (IPS) - As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of poverty-alleviation targets set by the United Nations, come to a close this year, countries around the world are taking stock of their successes and failures in tackling key developmental issues.
OPINION: A New Era of Hemispheric Cooperation Is Possible
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Jan 18 (IPS) - Two decades after the first Summit of the Americas, a lot has changed in the continent and it has been for the good. Today, a renewed hemispheric dialogue without exclusions is possible.
Battle Heats Up Over Legalisation of Sex Work in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (IPS) - Thirty-six-year-old Chameli Devi, a sex worker operating out of New Delhi's G.B. Road - Asia's largest red-light district, housing an estimated 12,000 of India's three million sex workers – is an unhappy woman these days.
Papal Visit Rekindles Hopes in Former War Zone
- Inter Press Service
MADHU, Sri Lanka, Jan 15 (IPS) - Jessi Jogeswaran, a 20-year-old woman from Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna district, waited over six hours with 18 friends in the sweltering heat just to get a glimpse of Pope Francis on Jan. 14.
In the Shadow of Glacial Lakes, Pakistan’s Mountain Communities Look to Climate Adaptation
- Inter Press Service
BINDO GOL, Pakistan, Jan 15 (IPS) - Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster.
Island States Throw Off the Heavy Yoke of Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
OPINION: For the Good of Humanity – Towards a Culture of Caring
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jan 13 (IPS) - About a week ago my wife was taken to hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia. She was promptly treated with antibiotics and, wonderfully, is now on the mend.
More Than Half of Africa's Arable Land ‘Too Damaged’ for Food Production
- Inter Press Service
NTUNGAMO DISTRICT, Uganda, Jan 13 (IPS) - A report published last month by the Montpellier Panel - an eminent group of agriculture, ecology and trade experts from Africa and Europe - says about 65 percent of Africa's arable land is too damaged to sustain viable food production.
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