News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 907
Haitian Immigrant Street Peddlers Try to Get a Leg Up
- Inter Press Service
Gaston Dorelus has little education, no vocational training, no extrinsic qualifications to make his way through life any easier.
BURKINA FASO: Race to Achieve Goals on Sanitation
- Inter Press Service
The government of Burkina Faso has embarked on the construction of 55,000 latrines each year to improve access to proper sanitation for the population from the present 10 percent to 54 percent by 2015.
KENYA: Claim Disputed that Trade Measures 'Aid' Counterfeiters
- Inter Press Service
A major pharmaceutical company in Kenya alleges that special trade measures to make medicines available in poor countries create 'loopholes' for counterfeit medicines to enter the market — a claim that health rights advocates refute.
GREECE: Society Begins to Crack Under Harsh Measures
- Inter Press Service
Every working day, more than a hundred people crowd around the entrance of the merchant and passenger boats' reconstruction industry, well known as 'The Zone', in the southern suburb of Attiki.
ZIMBABWE: Badly Needed Work Begins on Bulawayo Water System
- Inter Press Service
Dispersing feasting flies and angry residents from a manhole cover spewing sewage from people’s homes and into the road: another day in the working life of Njabulo Siziba. It's a dirty, frustrating, thankless job as a civil engineer for Bulawayo city council, but help is at hand for Siziba and the city he serves.
PERU: President Admits Corruption Has Tarnished Government
- Inter Press Service
In his Independence Day speech in the Peruvian Congress, which was broadcast nationwide, President Alan García admitted that corruption has tarnished his administration, although he lectured the judicial branch for delays in punishing those responsible.
MIGRATION-ECUADOR: Cubans Find Door Half Open - Part 1
- Inter Press Service
Carlos sold his house, Juana got a divorce so she could remarry and obtain resident status, and Pedro bought a 'letter of invitation' with 10 years of savings... These sorts of stories are common amongst Cubans anxious to make a new life in Ecuador.
HEALTH: Uganda Authority Finding Less Counterfeit Drugs
- Inter Press Service
Uganda’s National Drug Authority (NDA) says the failure rate among samples of medicines tested at their laboratories has fallen by 15 percent from the early 2000s. This serves as a possible indication of a drop in the availability of counterfeit medicines in the East African country.
TRADE-NAMIBIA: EU Backs Off on EPA
- Inter Press Service
European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European nongovernmental organisations on the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA), promising 'not to put undue pressure' on countries.
Familiar Pledges on Child and Maternal Health in Africa
- Inter Press Service
During the three-day summit of African Union heads of state, roughly 37,000 children and 2,000 women died across Africa, mostly from preventable causes, says a civil society coalition for child and maternal health. The coalition welcomed African leaders' pledge to make more resources available.
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