News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 855
EGYPT: Labour Anger Does Not End With Mubarak
- Inter Press Service
Before his ouster on Friday, toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had made one of the biggest mistakes of his reign; not learning from the lessons of hundreds of small labour and professional strikes that littered the country since 2005. These were the actual precursors to the Jan. 25 Revolution that end his 30-year autocratic rule.
Wild Seismic Predictions Disputed
- Inter Press Service
Without in-depth scientific documentation of marine mammal strandings, natural history and animal behaviour, the prediction of seismic events based on behaviour of marine mammals is not widely accepted. Sceptics often dismiss such predictions as conjecture.
United Nations, an Organisation on Life-Support?
- Inter Press Service
While a mass uprising was toppling a dictatorship in Egypt and tens of thousands were marching for radical change at the World Social Forum in Dakar, a high-level group of ambassadors and experts came together at the United Nations late last week to discuss the future of global governance.
TRADE: 'Poor Countries Have Already Given Enough in Doha Round'
- Inter Press Service
South Africa has expressed sharp concern over concerted attempts by leading industrialised countries, particularly the U.S. and the European Union (EU), to extract onerous commitments from developing countries as a condition to concluding the stalled Doha Round trade negotiations.
CORRUPTION: Egyptians Can Claim Mubarak’s Stolen Billions
- Inter Press Service
For decades, European bank accounts and trusts and the real estate market were havens for dictators seeking safe places to deposit billions of dollars they were stealing from their countries of origin.
Q&A: Political Support Needs Financial Backing
- Inter Press Service
'The agenda for women’s rights and empowerment in each country must be supported by the political leadership,' says Norah Matovu-Winyi, Executive Director, African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET).
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Fisheries Need Transparent Regulation
- Inter Press Service
Senegalese fishers participating in the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) warned governments to 'wake up to the ethical and transparent regulation of access to fisheries' to halt the overexploitation of this increasingly scarce resource.
U.S.: Military Intervention Trumping Humanitarian Aid
- Inter Press Service
In the midst of a belt-tightening political climate in which pledges by prominent lawmakers to slash the United States' foreign affairs budget will likely soon be realised, some rights groups and experts are concerned about the increasingly blurry distinction between security and development in the face of shrinking resources.
PERU: Government under Fire for Waiving Environmental Certificates for Dams
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government has been forced to offer talks with governors, the ombudsperson's office and Catholic Church leaders, to stem the outcry over two emergency decrees that waive the requirement for environmental certificates for 33 investment projects, including hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rainforest.
ECONOMY-LATIN AMERICA: The Downside of Strong Currencies
- Inter Press Service
Latin America returned in 2010 to the strong economic growth it enjoyed over the past decade, after only a minimal slowdown during the global crisis that broke out in 2008. But the weakness of the dollar relative to local currencies is a cause for concern among governments and sectors that produce goods for export.
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