Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 495
OPINION: Building a Sustainable Future: The Compact Between Business and Society
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 27 (IPS) - Can we envision a day when a critical mass of companies is investing in a better world? Where business is delivering value for the long-term – not just financially, but also socially, environmentally and ethically? Over a decade ago, it was hard to imagine, but we can now say with confidence that a global movement is underway.
Amid Crisis, Puerto Rico’s Retirees Face Uncertain Future
- Inter Press Service
SAN JUAN, Aug 27 (IPS) - A feeling of insecurity has overtaken broad sectors of Puerto Rican society as the economy worsens, public sector debt spirals out of control, and the island's creditworthiness is put in doubt.
Nepal Landslide Leaves Women and Children Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
DABI, Nepal, Aug 27 (IPS) - Living in a makeshift tarpaulin shelter, which barely protects her family from the torrential rainfall or scorching heat of this remote village in southern Nepal, 36-year-old Kamala Pari is under immense stress, worrying about her financial security and children's safety.
World Bank Urged to Rethink Reforms to Business-Friendliness Report
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (IPS) - Civil society groups from several continents are stepping up a campaign urging the World Bank to strengthen a series of changes currently being made to a major annual report on countries' business-friendliness.
Threat of Hydropower Dams Still Looms in Chile’s Patagonia
- Inter Press Service
COYHAIQUE, Chile, Aug 26 (IPS) - After its victory in a nearly decade-long struggle against HidroAysén, a project that would have built five large hydroelectric dams on wilderness rivers, Chile's Patagonia region is gearing up for a new battle: blocking a quiet attempt to build a dam on the Cuervo River.
OPINION: Towards a Global Governance Information Clearing House
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN/ROME, Aug 26 (IPS) - Inter Press Service News Agency has braved severe political assaults and financial tempests since 1964, when Roberto Savio and Pablo Piacentini laid its foundation as a unique and challenging information and communication system.
OPINION: Boosting Resilience in the Caribbean Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 26 (IPS) - Having lived and worked for more than a decade in four Caribbean countries, I have witnessed firsthand how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are extremely vulnerable to challenges ranging from debt and unemployment to climate change and sea level rise.
U.N. Conference Set to Bypass Climate Change Refugees
- Inter Press Service
New York's Homeless Pushed Deeper into the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (IPS) - Joe sits on newspapers spread on the sidewalk by the entrance to midtown's Grand Central Station. His head rests in his hands, only looking up when coins from passersby clink into his paper cup.
Bangladeshi Girls Seek Equal Opportunity
- Inter Press Service
RANGPUR, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (IPS) - Until five years ago, Shima Aktar, a student in Gajaghanta village in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh, about 370 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, was leading a normal life. But when her father decided that it was time for her to conform to purdah, a religious practice of female seclusion, things changed.
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