News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 905
ARGENTINA: The Gender Roots of Labour Inequality
- Inter Press Service
Inequality and poverty in Argentina are explained to a large extent by a job market that discriminates against women, coupled with insufficient equal opportunity regulations and failure to enforce existing labour laws, experts on the issue told IPS.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Removing Barriers to Trade
- Inter Press Service
Cecilia Gondwe waits in the shade of a tree at the Mwanza Border Post between Malawi and Mozambique. Somewhere inside, a clearing agent is completing elaborate paperwork on her behalf.
U.S.: Tough Laws Just One Peril for Day Laborers
- Inter Press Service
Ovidio Perez's brother was planning to return to Guatemala because of a new Arizona law that made it a state crime to be an undocumented immigrant. He returned, but in a coffin.
FILM: Music for a New Abolitionist Movement
- Inter Press Service
Musician Justin Dillon had been reading about human trafficking before he went on tour to Eastern Europe. In Russia, his young female translator told him about offers she was receiving to move west for jobs that seemed too good to be true - and with no paperwork to back them up.
SRI LANKA: No Peace in Sight in Human-vs-Elephant War
- Inter Press Service
Dusk creeps over Konweva like a black shroud slowly draping over the village. The edges of its paddy fields, where the agricultural plains meet the surrounding thick shrubs, are first to be blanketed in the darkness. Already, there are signs that the night will not be peaceful.
COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Bolívar's Heirs Clash on Bicentennial
- Inter Press Service
The latest political and diplomatic conflict between Colombia and Venezuela has coincided with celebrations of the bicentennial of the two countries' independence, won by their common liberator Simón Bolívar, whose ideals of integration continue to be undermined.
Brazil: World Leader in Recycling Aluminium Cans
- Inter Press Service
For the last nine years Brazil has led the world in recycling aluminium cans, of which it reuses 96.5 percent, and it now has a strong chance of reaching the 100 percent mark.
DR CONGO: Sticks And Thatch Out of Our Schools
- Inter Press Service
Led by the local church, residents of Gungu administrative zone, in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have used their own resources to transform the conditions in which their children study.
MEXICO: Asbestos, a Toxic Neighbour
- Inter Press Service
It's summertime, so the 'Año de Juárez' public primary school in Barrios de San Lucas, a working-class neighbourhood on the east side of the Mexican capital, is deserted.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Boost Cross-Border Trade for Food Security
- Inter Press Service
Small-scale traders on either side of the Mwami Border Post between Zambia and Malawi are key to meeting local demands that larger importers do not.
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