Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 566
Domestics Join Forces to Put Their House in Order
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 29 (IPS) - "We have come together to join forces, to be heard, because we want to speak for ourselves," said Ernestina Ochoa, a Peruvian domestic worker, at the close of the founding congress of the International Domestic Workers Federation in the Uruguayan capital.
Swiss Knife Sharpened to Cut Bosses’ Pay
- Inter Press Service
BERN, Oct 29 (IPS) - Swiss voters will decide Nov. 24 on introducing a salary cap that would limit the wage spread in companies to 1:12. The economic lobby is nervous - success for the proposal in the referendum is not as unrealistic as once expected.
There are Solutions to U.S. Calamities
- Inter Press Service
MANASSAS, Virginia, U.S., Oct 28 (IPS) - Political terrorism failed. The House Republicans used voting in one chamber to put the livelihoods of millions of people inside and outside the U.S. at risk, for their own political goals. And made the mistake of most terrorists, non-state or state: when people suffer they will join us, against our enemy; to find out that people turn against the terrorists instead.
Major New Andes Tunnel Turns Back on Volcano
- Inter Press Service
FINCA GALICIA, Cordillera Central, Colombia, Oct 26 (IPS) - A new system of tunnels at the Alto de La Línea mountain pass in Colombia's central Cordillera mountain range will open up a key logistics route for this country and neighbouring Venezuela. But it could be overcome by disaster if the Machín volcano erupts.
Key Global Financial Agencies Fall Short on Poverty Reduction
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (IPS) - Key multilateral institutions charged with improving regulation of the international financial system are failing to democratise their governance and adequately consider the impact of their actions on the world's poor, says a new report by anti-poverty groups.
Cuba’s Dual Currency System: A Death Foretold
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 25 (IPS) - An end to the country's dual-currency system is one of the reforms most anxiously-awaited by Cubans, who nevertheless reacted with scepticism and doubt to the announcement of a timeline for eliminating the system, blamed for exacerbating social inequalities in the country.
Bangladesh Ailing After Aila
- Inter Press Service
KHULNA, Bangladesh, Oct 25 (IPS) - It has been four years since Cyclone Aila struck Bangladesh, triggering floods and widespread destruction. But the villagers of Koira subdistrict, among the worst affected of the 11 districts hit by the cyclone, are yet to recover from its impact.
OP-ED: The World Without U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (IPS) - In his 2007 bestseller The World Without Us, journalist Alan Weisman describes a planet that regenerates itself after the disappearance of human beings. Skyscrapers crumble and bridges collapse into rivers, but the primeval forests take over and the buffalo return to roam.
War is a Crime!
- Inter Press Service
VERSONNEX, France, Oct 24 (IPS) - Nobody has brought this simple message to the world like the Perdana Global Peace Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As the leader, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's fourth prime minister, says: "Peace for us simply means the absence of war. We must never be deflected from this simple objective".
Sometimes, Sex Work is the Least Bad
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Oct 24 (IPS) - "We are not saying that all people become sex workers, but you make more money," Virak Horn, a 32-year-old gay sex worker who works freelance in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, tells IPS. He earns enough to support his family and pay for his college degree.
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