News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 609
International Community Urged to Declare “War on Food Waste”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 06 (IPS) - A quarter of all food calories grown for human consumption is being lost or wasted, either purposefully or otherwise, according to new estimates.
Battle Against Hunger Lost Without Gender Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - When the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2001, two of its primary objectives were to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 and promote gender empowerment worldwide.
A Hope That Didn’t Sail for Malaysian Youth
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 06 (IPS) - They had voted for "ubah" or change. What the youth of Malaysia got instead seems to be more of the same.
Gezi Park Highlights Years of Destructive Urban Development
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jun 06 (IPS) - Few imagined that the symbolic act of standing in front of bulldozers in Istanbul's Gezi Park in an effort to block a development project near the city's central square would have caused the reaction it did.
Tackle Malnutrition Now
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 06 (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2012, 868 million people worldwide were deemed hungry by a conservative definition. This figure represents only a small fraction of the world's population whose health and lives are blighted by malnutrition.
Turkey's Excessive Neo-liberalism Threatens 'Peace at Home'
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Jun 05 (IPS) - "Peace at home, peace in the world" is the official motto of the Turkish Republic. Coined in 1931 by the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it implies a causal relationship, but the events this week in Istanbul and dozens of other cities of Turkey suggest that causality can work in reverse order, too.
Overcoming “Strategic Suspicion” - Goal of Obama-Xi Summit
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 05 (IPS) - This week's relatively informal and unscripted summit between the presidents of the United States and China on a private estate in southern California is being welcomed by most analysts here as a virtually unprecedented opportunity for each side to gain a better understanding of the strategic aims of the other.
Shift in Latin America’s Approach to Drugs – from Security to Health Issue
- Inter Press Service
ANTIGUA, Guatemala, Jun 05 (IPS) - The drug problem should be tackled not as a security issue but as a public health question, with policies for "prevention, treatment and rehabilitation," delegations from the 34 countries participating in the 43rd General Assembly of the Organisation of American States agreed.
Quantitative Easing: Impact on Emerging and Developing Economies
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 05 (IPS) - The global economy is awash with successive waves of liquidity generated over the past few years by the four most advanced economies, viz., the United States, the European Union, (EU), Japan and the United Kingdom, known as the G4. This liquidity has taken the form of "quantitative easing" (QE).
Landgrabbing to Provide Horn of Africa with Electricity
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Jun 05 (IPS) - Ethiopia's long-term hydropower strategy is proving to be both a source of economic sustenance and contention. In becoming Africa's leading power exporter through the construction of a series of dams across the country, Ethiopia could threaten the lives of millions who depend on the Nile River's waters.
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