News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 909
Q&A: 'NGOs Are Here to Stay'
- Inter Press Service
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based NGOs, with over 190 members. Its head, Sam Worthington, spoke recently with IPS about the role of NGOs in Haiti, the U.S. and throughout the world.
KENYA: Jury Still Out on Traditional Birth Attendants
- Inter Press Service
A group of women huddled together sitting on stones in front of traditional birth attendant Elizabeth Sibuor's home in Nairobi's Mathare slum. One of them, 21-year-old Eunice Okoth, is heavily pregnant, her face anxious. She rises as quickly as she can and follows Sibuor into her one-roomed house.
ZIMBABWE: 'Free' Maternal Health Care Too Costly For Most
- Inter Press Service
As African Union heads of state consider child and maternal health at the 2010 summit in Kampala, Uganda, the perennial question of user fees has reared its head in Zimbabwe. Fees for services are opening a growing gap between policy and implementation in maternal health care in the Southern African country.
MALAWI: Government Money-Saving Measure Costs Traders Dearly
- Inter Press Service
The Malawian government’s new cost-cutting prohibition on the hosting of conferences, training sessions and workshops on the shores of Lake Malawi has hit small-scale merchants who ply their trade on the roadsides and beaches of the fresh-water lake.
ECONOMY: Latin America Grows Despite Global Uncertainties
- Inter Press Service
More fixed capital investment to improve competition, greater added value to exported goods and services, and tax reforms to finance social policies are some of the challenges Latin America and the Caribbean face in the uncertain global economic panorama.
JAPAN: Critics Want Law on Foreign Trainees Scrapped, not Revised
- Inter Press Service
The Japanese government may have revised the country’s laws in response to complaints that its system of hiring foreign trainees at lower wages is exploitative, but calls remain for the latter to be scrapped altogether.
US: Women Fight More Than Fire in the FDNY
- Inter Press Service
Leaning back in a squeaking plastic chair, one leg crossed over the other, the lieutenant is at once relaxed and commanding. She smiles often, absent- mindedly running her hands through short brown hair before speaking. Her words are thoughtful, her manner candid.
HEALTH: Kenyans’ Right to Affordable Drugs in Hands of Court
- Inter Press Service
Kenya’s Constitutional Court is due to set a date on Jul 22 for a hearing on the application against the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008, of which clauses pertaining to medicines have been suspended pending the court’s decision on whether the law violates the right to health and life.
Bricks in Brazil - Eco-Friendly, Low-Cost and Cool
- Inter Press Service
Clay or earthen bricks could help to alleviate the housing shortage in Brazil because of the lower cost of brick buildings, while an innovative process for producing what are known as 'ecological bricks' can avoid the environmental harm arising from more usual building materials.
Window of Opportunity For Sahel Rapidly Closing
- Inter Press Service
Over the past six months, the levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in the Sahel belt of West Africa have increased at alarming rates, putting over 10 million people at risk across the region - particularly in Niger and Chad.
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