News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 641
Gaza Women Suffer on ‘Their’ Day
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 07 (IPS) - "In Gaza we don't lead normal lives, we just cope and adapt to our abnormal lives under siege and occupation," says Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician and a long-time human rights and women's rights activist in the Gaza Strip. On International Women's Day, when many of the world's women are fighting for workplace equality and an end to domestic violence, Farra and the majority of Gaza's women fight for the most basic of human rights.
Guardians of Life and of the Earth
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 07 (IPS) - Around the world, but especially in the planet's poorest regions, women represent a life force that renews itself daily, sometimes against all odds.
Cigarette Companies Mock Tobacco Control Laws in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 07 (IPS) - Despite the great strides made in Latin America with tobacco control legislation, the industry deploys a range of strategies to circumvent the restrictions imposed on cigarette advertising, social organisations and experts complain.
Fishing Labour Out of the Dark Ages
- Inter Press Service
MAHACHAI, Thailand, Mar 07 (IPS) - When Ko Mynt fled poverty in Myanmar for a job in neighbouring Thailand, the thought of labouring long hours in a shrimp peeling shed was far from his mind. So was this seaside town south of Bangkok. The 29-year-old had set his sights on employment in a garments factory.
Chávez Invigorated the Left in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Mar 06 (IPS) - Part of the legacy left by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who died Tuesday, was his determined struggle for the integration of Latin America independent of the standards and models of the industrialised North, and for the reinvigoration of left-wing radicalism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“We Aren’t Fighting Poverty Here, We’re Improving the Quality of Life”
- Inter Press Service
SINANCHÉ, Mexico, Mar 06 (IPS) - The residents of San Crisanto, a small communal village nestled in an idyllic setting in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatán, have learned that valuing and protecting natural resources can generate employment and income.
Wheels of Industry Slowing in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 06 (IPS) - Industry is the ailing sector of the Brazilian economy, with production falling 2.7 percent in 2012 in spite of government incentives, and in contrast with the strong expansion of retail trade and the lowest unemployment rate in history.
After the Tigers, Fishers Face Poachers
- Inter Press Service
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Mar 06 (IPS) - The sea is all that 40-year-old Arul has mastered. From looking at the clouds or from the direction of the wind, this fisher from northern Jaffna can predict the condition of the sea fairly accurately.
At the Bottom of Lake Nyasa is ‘Rare Earth’
- Inter Press Service
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Mar 06 (IPS) - The local Tanzanian community bordering Lake Nyasa is no nearer to understanding what the conflict between their country and Malawi is about, nor why so much is at stake, as mediation efforts are expected to begin soon.
World Bank Urges African Agriculture Rethink
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 06 (IPS) - The World Bank is urging African governments to retool their agriculture policies, particularly to include a far greater focus on agribusiness as a critical driver of future development.
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