Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 556
Saving Children From Loggers
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, Dic 01 (IPS) - Logging is the largest industry in the Solomon Islands, an archipelago located northwest of Fiji, where 80 percent of the islands are covered in tropical rainforest. But, although timber accounts for 60 percent of this South Pacific nation's export earnings, most local communities have experienced no beneficial development.
The Carbon Warrior
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dic 01 (IPS) - Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity.
Egypt Begs Gulf for Rescue
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Dic 01 (IPS) - "Subsidies from the Arab world are large and reflect Arabs' love towards the Egyptian people, but we cannot depend on that to build an economy that can compete with other countries," said economist Dr Alia el Mahdi.
When Calamity Strikes, Think Local
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Nov 30 (IPS) - More than a month after Cyclone Phailin battered Orissa, tribes in the eastern Indian coastal state are still feeling its wrath. Besides the damage to their homes and hearths, it has also meant a loss of their traditional food.
Storms, Flooding Can Unleash a Toxic Soup
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 30 (IPS) - It's a dirty, smelly business, but wastewater is gaining prominence across the Caribbean as countries from Jamaica in the west to Guyana in the south increasingly recognise its effects on the environment and the importance of improving its management.
Skateboarding Can Be Empowering
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Nov 30 (IPS) - An array of colourful quarter pipes, bank ramps and a fun box come to life as a clutch of Cambodian youngsters do balancing tricks, kick-flips and kick turns. The all-girl session at a skating facility near the Russian Market here is facilitated by 20-year-old Kov Chansangva, popularly known as Tin.
Paraguay’s ‘Indignados’ Win a Round Against Congress
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Nov 29 (IPS) - A few hours before a human chain was to surround the Paraguayan Congress on Thursday, Senator Víctor Bogado, accused of fraud and misuse of public funds, was stripped of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution.
Global Trade Winds Leave the Poor Gasping
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Nov 29 (IPS) - For years, it was the power chamber at the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva - the Director General's Conference Room, more popularly known as the Green Room, where a handful of delegates would gather for important discussions and meetings.
Aiming at NATO, Hitting Afghans
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Nov 29 (IPS) - A blockade of NATO supplies to Afghanistan by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party has ended up hitting Pakistan's legal trade with its neighbour, say local traders and truckers.
Uganda’s First Female Funeral Director – From Taboo to Mainstream
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Nov 28 (IPS) - Uganda may have the third-highest fertility rate in the world but where there is life, death is inevitable. And it is a certainty that Regina Mukiibi Mugongo made the most of when she became this East African nation's first ever funeral director almost two decades ago.
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