News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 900
COLOMBIA: The Violent 'Agrarian Counter-Reform' Conspiracy
- Inter Press Service
An unknown number of agribusiness owners and public employees at all levels, as well as far-right paramilitaries, have a common link with rural people who have been forced off their farms or killed in Colombia: the land stolen from the latter group in the armed conflict.
The Mystery of the Vanishing Squid in South Atlantic
- Inter Press Service
Environmental factors, lack of cooperation and overfishing have caused a sharp fall in catches of squid in the southwestern Atlantic ocean, the most important fishery in the world for this species.
Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster.
MEXICO: Threats Against Journalists: 'You're Vulnerable, and It's Hard to Accept'
- Inter Press Service
'The threats change your whole life,' said Jade Ramírez, a journalist who has been living for months with that burden, which also hangs over a growing group of her colleagues in Mexico.
Q&A: 'Women Are the First to Cook and the Last to Eat'
- Inter Press Service
Three hundred women from more than 30 countries converged in Canada last weekend for the Montreal International Women's Conference 2010 (MIWC), with the aim of building a global militant women's movement in the 21st century.
Burkinabé Women's Economic Empowerment Key to Girls' Education
- Inter Press Service
An initiative to keep girls in school by supporting income-generating activities for their mothers is bearing fruit in Burkina Faso, where poverty and cultural values still deprive many girls of an education.
DEVELOPMENT-AUSTRALIA: It’s Not Just About More, But Better, Aid
- Inter Press Service
Australia’s foreign aid budget is likely to double by 2015, but civil society groups say this is far from enough if it is to keep to its 'fair share' of commitments to poorer countries.
US: Standing Up for Homeless Vets at Stand Downs
- Inter Press Service
More than 400 homeless veterans from across northern California relaxed in comfort at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Rallying Around Mugabe While Economic Unity Lags
- Inter Press Service
Southern African leaders used the 30th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit of government leaders to rally around Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s land seizures in a move that undermines regionalism while lamenting their own failure to implement their decisions on regional economic integration.
DEVELOPMENT: China Wants Business with Latin America
- Inter Press Service
China, now the world’s second largest economy with a ferocious appetite for resources, is aggressively strengthening relations with Latin American countries, but this has not been without roadblocks.
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