News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 889
TRADE: South Africa Flexing its Muscles With Poor Neighbours
- Inter Press Service
The beleaguered Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has to face up to serious challenges at its upcoming heads of state meeting in October, including the divergent interests of its member states and the lack of coordinated industrial policies in the union.
DEVELOPMENT: A Fat Cat Tax for Lean Times
- Inter Press Service
As world leaders convened Monday for the first day of a summit dedicated to resuscitate efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the question of how to finance countries' acceleration efforts looms large.
U.S. Boosts Aid Amid Doubts About Pakistan's Recovery
- Inter Press Service
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has announced it will provide an additional 75 million dollars in food aid to help Pakistan cope with floods that have affected about one-fifth of the country - including some 20 million people - since they began in July.
MOZAMBIQUE: BHP Billiton Plans Six Month Bypass of Smelter Smokestack Scrubbers
- Inter Press Service
Civil society groups are challenging a six-month authorisation granted aluminium giant BHP Billiton to emit potentially dangerous fumes from its Mozal smelter into the air without treating them first.
DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Chief Looks Beyond 2015 Deadline
- Inter Press Service
As more than 140 world leaders began a three-day anti-poverty summit meeting Monday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon looked far beyond the 2015 deadline for sustainable development the world is desperately in need of.
MILLENNIUM GOALS: A Question of Political Will
- Inter Press Service
'I am not pessimistic, but I am realistic. Under present conditions and the prevailing system of world government, the Millennium Development Goals simply cannot be achieved,' Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno said in an interview with IPS.
South Urged not to Replicate Old, Unequal Models
- Inter Press Service
South-South cooperation is set to be a key issue during the three-day summit beginning today that will bring together some 140 world leaders to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
No Glass Ceiling in Dreams of Women Workers
- Inter Press Service
'There are no ceilings in our dreams; we want to transform young women, tell them there is a way for them to be happy,' says Elza Santiago, a resident of a 'favela' or shantytown in Brazil who defines her mission as 'mixing feminism with work.'
LATIN AMERICA: Crisis Not a Thing of the Past for NGOs
- Inter Press Service
The countries of Latin America, with few exceptions, have weathered the global recession of the past two years relatively well, while they simultaneously continued the process of shedding neoliberal policies in their most fundamentalist form. But in financial terms, non-governmental organisations have not fared so well.
Haitian Women Struggle to Keep Hope Alive
- Inter Press Service
'I'm going to do everything possible to raise my daughter. My daughter is my future. And I can see my future in her,' says Mirlene Saint Juste, a rice merchant in the Opoto market of Gonaives in northern Haiti.
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