News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 892
SINGAPORE: Films Show Other Side Of Migrant Workers
- Inter Press Service
Migrant workers may be what one filmmaker calls a 'socio- political hot potato' in Singapore, but that is precisely why a film festival opted to showcase the plight of workers who often remain faceless although they are vital to the city- state’s everyday life and economy.
EUROPE: New Permits to Pollute Sought
- Inter Press Service
Extra permits to pollute the atmosphere would be given to corporations that invest in areas surrounding tropical rainforests under plans drawn up by one of Europe's most influential pressure groups.
Locally-Run Protected Areas Could Reverse Fisheries' Death Spiral
- Inter Press Service
Local fishers objected to the creation of a new no-fishing marine protected area off the coast of Belize in 1996. Today they are benefiting from the bounty of fish spilling out of the Laughing Bird Caye National Park. Tourism has also boomed, illustrating the multiple benefits and value of marine protected areas, according to a new series of reports released Wednesday by Conservation International (CI).
MEXICO: Experts Denounce Slant in Corn Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government's subsidies for corn (maize) production since 1994 have benefitted large- and medium-scale growers, to the detriment of small farmers, according to a new study by Mexican and U.S. researchers.
US: Global Horizons Indicted for Human Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
Mordechai Orian, president of Global Horizons, a Los Angeles- based labour recruiter, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for 'engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labour and document servitude' of approximately 400 Thai citizens who were brought to work on farms in the U.S. between May 2004 and September 2005.
TRADE: It’s the End of the Export-Led Growth Model, Says UNCTAD
- Inter Press Service
While the recovery from the financial and economic meltdown remains fragile in especially the developed world, the outlook for Africa inspires optimism, according to UNCTAD. The agency also believes the crisis might be the death- knell for the export-led economic growth model -- especially African countries should leave it behind.
Financing Public Health in Africa
- Inter Press Service
Campaigners for increased health financing welcome the commitment by African Union member states to direct more resources to health. But as the September MDG review of progress towards health and other development goals approaches, the needs of the continent seem to dwarf available budgets.
OPEC - Fifty Years Regulating Oil Market Roller Coaster
- Inter Press Service
Half a century after OPEC came into being, the world is very different, thanks partly to the actions of this organisation, the first to be formed in the developing South specifically to protect an export product.
DEVELOPMENT: Fewer Hungry, but More Hunger Waits
- Inter Press Service
Figures the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) presented here Tuesday revealing a reduction in the world's number of hungry people in 2010 for the first time in 15 years should be a cause for celebration. In reality it is a hollow success.
LABOUR: Newly Emboldened Burmese Workers Press for Change
- Inter Press Service
When nearly 1,000 Burmese migrant workers launched a strike at a fishnet factory in north-east Thailand a week ago, activists expected it to be a short burst of anger. After all, this frequently abused labour force was often gripped with fear during brief work stoppages in the past elsewhere in this South-east Asian kingdom.
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