News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 866
Q&A: 'Transparency Helps Ensure Donors' Promises Are Met'
- Inter Press Service
This past September, world leaders meeting at the United Nations vowed to spend $40 billion over the next five years to save the lives of more than 16 million women and children dying of deadly diseases or lack of medical care, particularly during and after pregnancy.
U.S. Finning Ban Caps Busy Year for Shark Conservation
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. Congress banned shark finning in all U.S. waters Tuesday, a victory environmental advocates are hoping sends a message to international regulators.
Street Vendors Defend Right to Make a Living in San Salvador
- Inter Press Service
Juan Antonio Gallegos sells Mexican tortillas in Cuscatlán Park in the capital of El Salvador. Like other street vendors who work in the area, he has one thing on his mind these days: how to resist the imminent eviction that forms part of the city's government's urban renewal plan.
Big Fleets Resist Pacific Islands' Plan to Save Fisheries
- Inter Press Service
Eight Pacific island nations that are leveraging their contracts with foreign fishing fleets to save the world's last great stocks of tuna are getting little sympathy from the countries representing those fleets.
Caribbean Lagging on EPA Deadlines with Europe
- Inter Press Service
Two years after Europe signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Caribbean Forum countries, concerns are being raised in the region about the timeline for future negotiations in a number of areas.
LATIN AMERICA: Community Currencies Offer Refuge from Economic Forces
- Inter Press Service
Túmin, which means 'money' in the Totonaca indigenous language, is a community currency now circulating among 80 vendors selling their products at an alternative market in the town of Espinal, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz.
U.S.: Prisoners Coordinate Statewide Strike via Cellphones
- Inter Press Service
In what some are calling the largest prison strike in U.S. history, inmates in the state of Georgia coordinated a strike across multiple prison facilities using pre-paid cell phones.
CUBA: Socialism Needs More Taxes, Fewer Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
Cubans are delving deeper into economic change, which means new taxes and an end to the state subsidies that for decades were a symbol of the equality so highly extolled under the Cuban Revolution.
India-EU Deal Threatens Mom-and-Pop Retail
- Inter Press Service
Retail giants pushing the European Union-India free trade deal promise consumers a 'new and dynamic retail experience' but ignore the fate of India’s 'mom-and-pop' stores and some 40 million people they employ.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Entrepreneurs, Not Diplomats, Are 'Ambassadors' to China
- Inter Press Service
With the exception of Costa Rica, Central America does not have diplomatic relations with China, but business executives are taking the place of ambassadors and promoting closer ties with the Asian giant, hoping to cash in on its rapid economic growth.
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