News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 917
As Canada's Democracy Trembles, a New Global Architecture Emerges
- Inter Press Service
Nearly 600 people were arrested as global leaders and elites met behind a fortified perimetre during the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto this weekend.
WORLD: 'Anti-Counterfeit Deal Threatens Accessibility of Drugs'
- Inter Press Service
A proposed anti-counterfeit trade deal between 10 countries and the European Union (EU) could create 'a new set of barriers to the export of generic medicines to low income countries'.
Activists Slam G8's Aid Shell Game
- Inter Press Service
The G8 bloc of wealthy nations promised five billion dollars Saturday for health and nutrition programmes that benefit women and children in developing countries.
G20: China May Not be the Saviour
- Inter Press Service
Against a backdrop of rising expectations that it holds the key to global economic recovery, China has sent a subtle signal that its economic health is frail and that external pressure to revalue its currency will cause more damage than good.
U.N. Chief Warns Big Business to Play by Ethical Rules
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations is sending a strong message to the world's corporate executives: abide by the rules of social and ethical conduct or risk having your firm named and shamed.
Time to Give Wall Street the Axe, Say Progressive Groups
- Inter Press Service
As heads of state from the Group of 20 (G20) most developed and economically powerful emerging nations meet in Toronto, Canada this weekend, some activists at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit are urging a more realistic look at the roots of the global economic crisis - and an end to the free-wheeling capitalist model embodied by Wall Street.
Connecting the Dots from Detroit to Dakar
- Inter Press Service
Africa's continued struggle for political and economic independence in many ways mirrors the very own struggles of communities in the U.S. that are now being tabled at the 2010 U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.
A Reform Movement by and for Undocumented People
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of grassroots organisations came together at the U.S. Social Forum here to discuss strategies in the fight for immigration policy changes that would put an end to criminalisation and the militarisation of the border with Mexico.
Doubts Over Zimbabwe Diamonds
- Inter Press Service
Three days of tense deliberations by members of the Kimberley Process have failed to reach consensus on whether diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields should be certified as conflict-free. Zimbabwe has already announced that it intends to resume exports of the precious stones immediately.
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Selling Scrap Metal to Scrape By
- Inter Press Service
Gugulethu Mkhwananzi is another one of the many unemployed women who have become features of everyday life in Bulawayo’s poor working class suburbs as she moves from house to house, looking for 'rusted gold': scrap metal.
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