News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 916
Caribbean Summit Seeks United Front to Economic Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders are gathering here next week for their annual summit still struggling to recover from the two-year global economic and financial crisis that has taken a major toll on their individual economies.
TRADE: UNCTAD 'Forgets' Real Risks Faced by African Farmers
- Inter Press Service
The latest United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report on science and technology repeats previous calls for a 'green revolution' in African agriculture but contains no mention of the real and present dangers that the international trade and financial framework represent for African farmers.
Domestic Workers Begin to See Some Rights
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-seven-year-old Maria Puscariu is about to complete her MA in philosophy at a Belgian university. The Moldovan has been working for over five years as a domestic worker in Western Europe in order to support herself and finance her studies.
Despite Gains, South Korean Women Still Struggle for Equality
- Inter Press Service
Forty-six year-old language professor Kwon Hye Yang views her life as a typical example of the growing confidence of modern women in her home country, South Korea.
SPAIN: Women Entrepreneurs Pledge Support for African Counterparts
- Inter Press Service
Senegalese businesswoman Marie Thiaré makes her business cards by hand, because she has no way to have them printed -- a sharp contrast with the situation faced by women entrepreneurs in Europe, where it is easy to order business cards, and most people even have their own home computer and printer.
Free Ride for Oil and Coal Industry May Be Over
- Inter Press Service
Every day, governments give away an estimated two billion dollars of taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry. This unmatched largesse to a highly profitable sector by countries verging on bankruptcy or unable to feed large numbers of their own people is 'complete madness', according to many experts.
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Will Change Way of Life on Xingú River
- Inter Press Service
At dawn, the 'captain' fired on the village leader and the shooting began. 'The forest trembled,' says one survivor: the local indigenous people fled, leaving their dead behind. Only one young girl remained. But she sank her teeth into the chest of one of the assailants with such force that they slit her throat to pull her off him.
TRADE-SOUTHERN AFRICA: The End of EPA Acrimony May Be in Sight
- Inter Press Service
Southern African trade ministers have pledged to sign a significantly scaled down economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) before the end of 2010. Could this be the conclusion to years of divisive negotiations?
AUSTRALIA: New PM Called On to Tackle Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Australia’s newly appointed prime minister, Julia Gillard, has hardly warmed her seat, yet she has already been urged to take action on climate change.
Brick by Brick, Women Builders Make Their Way in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
It looks like any other construction site: wheelbarrows full of bricks, boards and steel bars trundling back and forth to a soundtrack of hammering, sawing and drilling. But there is a difference: some of the construction workers underneath the hard hats are women.
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