Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 506
Proposed Arms Embargo on Syria a Political Mockery
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 14 (IPS) - When the 15-member Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, fails to resolve a military conflict, it invariably exercises one of its tried, and mostly failed, options: punish the warring parties by imposing punitive sanctions.
Europe and the United States, Allies in Crisis
- Inter Press Service
BARCELONA, Jul 14 (IPS) - A few decades ago, even before the end of the Cold War and before and after Ronald Reagan's election to the White House, analyses regularly referred to U.S. decadence. At other times, it was Europe's turn for pessimistic descriptions, especially when it could not overcome its ambivalence over deepening integration, and above all because of the failure of its constitutional project.
New BRICS Monetary Fund May Reproduce Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Jul 12 (IPS) - The first common institutions to be set up by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS – are financial, and have arisen as a result of reforms to an international system that continues to largely ignore the growing influence of emerging countries.
Ever Wondered Why the World is a Mess?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 11 (IPS) - While the Third World War has not been formally declared, conflicts throughout the world are reaching levels unseen since 1944.
Scepticism as “Green Goods” Trade Talks Begin
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 11 (IPS) - Formal negotiations began this week around the increasingly significant global trade in "environmental goods", those technologies seen as environmentally beneficial, including in combating climate change.
Reproductive Rights Take Centre Stage at U.N. Special Session
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 10 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues negotiations on a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for its post-2015 development agenda, population experts are hoping reproductive health will be given significant recognition in the final line-up of the goals later this year.
Young Latin Americans Face Spiral of Unemployment, Poverty
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jul 10 (IPS) - In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next. Civil society groups, academics and young people themselves say it is imperative to strengthen the connection between education today and decent employment tomorrow.
OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 (IPS) - An African proverb says "a child that we refuse to build today will end up selling the house that we may build tomorrow."
Shea Harvesting Good for Income, Bad for the Environment in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Jul 10 (IPS) - The shea tree, a traditional African food plant, represents a major source of income for women in Ghana's Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions, but they are helping to destroy the very resource that gives them money by cutting it down to produce charcoal.
Zimbabwean Girls Venture into Technological Innovation
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 10 (IPS) - For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.
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