Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 544
Q&A: Africa’s Tremendous Progress Amid War and Famine
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 28 (IPS) - The issue of peace and security, particularly in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, are expected dominate the discussions at the African Union's (AU) semi-annual summit being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week.
U.S. Tightens Development Safeguards
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (IPS) - Development activists and rights watchdogs are applauding a surprise strengthening of environmental and human rights policies governing U.S. development funding and overseas financial assistance.
Switching Off Market ‘Reforms’ in the Philippines
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Jan 27 (IPS) - After two decades of aggressively privatising its public services, the Philippines is beginning to realise the cost of mindless market reforms.
When the Suicide Pilots Said Goodbye
- Inter Press Service
CHIRAN (Japan), Jan 26 (IPS) - They were known as the Kamikaze who swooped down on enemy ships with their bomb-laden planes – with the pilots inside. A museum here is now planning to register the last letters of Japan's famed World War II suicide bombers as a Unesco Memory of the World document. The museum is calling these records "symbolic" of the country's commitment to peace.
Argentine Activists Win First Round Against Monsanto Plant
- Inter Press Service
CORDOBA, Argentina, Jan 25 (IPS) - Residents of a town in Argentina have won the first victory in their fight against biotech giant Monsanto, but they are still at battle stations, aware that winning the war is still a long way off.
Decriminalisation Comes to Davos
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 (IPS) - In the exclusive, rarified air of Davos, Thursday's attendees at the World Economic Forum shared in a whiff of decriminalisation at a panel on drug policy in the Swiss alpine city that included former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Texas Governor Rick Perry and the head of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth.
Big Gap Surfaces in Davos
- Inter Press Service
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 24 (IPS) - As self-appointed global leaders gather at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos and discuss ‘The Reshaping of the World', a stone's throw away non-governmental organisations named this year's winners for their dreaded Public Eye Awards.
Impoverished Cambodians For Sale
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Jan 24 (IPS) - Many Cambodian women arrive in South Korea or China for marriage, only to find themselves being chosen as mistresses, say labour rights activists. While young Cambodian men, who travel to Thailand to work on fishing boats, often fall prey to drug abuse.
World Bank Arm Admits Wrongs in Honduras Loan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (IPS) - In an unusual statement, the World Bank's private-sector arm has threatened to cancel a controversial investment in a Honduran palm oil company that has been implicated in serious human rights abuses, including numerous killings, over the past five years.
Digital Age Demands Educational Transformation, World Forum Says
- Inter Press Service
CANOAS, Brazil, Jan 24 (IPS) - The challenges of the digital age call for schools to develop an alternative model of education, with teachers who incorporate new technology and employ a more critical pedagogy, participants said at the Fórum Mundial de Educaçao (World Education Forum) in this southern Brazilian city.
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