News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 901
CUBA-US: Tourism and 'Cuban Five' Top Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Cuba is getting ready to welcome tourists from the United States, in the event that the ban on travel by U.S. citizens to this Caribbean island nation is lifted, as well as clamouring more loudly for a presidential pardon for the five Cuban agents who have spent the last 12 years in U.S. prisons.
Q&A: 'We Must Move from a Masculine to a Feminine Economy'
- Inter Press Service
It is necessary to move from a 'masculine' economy based on competition and a win-lose mentality to a 'feminine' win-win economy based on the concept of collaboration, says writer Rose Marie Muraro, one of the pioneers of Brazil's feminist movement.
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Not All Working Women Are Equal
- Inter Press Service
Fifty-one year old Miharu juggles two part-time jobs at a law firm and at a design company, but is barely able to make ends meet in one of the world’s richest economies.
ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
- Inter Press Service
'A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption,' says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the Earth Uruguay.
ECONOMY: 'Borderless Southern Africa Is a Pie in the Sky'
- Inter Press Service
Regional economic integration plans in southern Africa are not rooted in reality, according to civil society organisations holding a parallel meeting alongside the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Namibia’s capital of Windhoek.
Niger Facing Growing Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has been forced to scale back aid for lack of funds.
MALAWI: Local Management the Tonic for Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
Hop over a seep of filthy sludge behind a bathroom screened with ragged sacks, turn past the toilet with battered cardboard walls, crab between mud-brick shanties roofed with rusty metal... There: emerge into a small, neat yard where a dozen women and girls are filling plastic buckets from five water taps sticking out of concrete wall.
U.N. Targets 'Lost Generation'
- Inter Press Service
Even as the U.N. launched the International Year of Youth last week, one of its agencies was warning of a 'lost generation' of disillusioned young workers who are unable to find decent jobs.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Traders 'Blocked' From the 'Big Business'
- Inter Press Service
'Africans do not believe women can do big business,' fumes Zambian trader Angelica Rumsey.
DEVELOPMENT-NIGER: Selling Sand to Survive
- Inter Press Service
It's a trade that requires no capital, only courage and endurance. A group of 200 women are making ends meet - sometimes even a bit more - by selling sand.
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