News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 921
ARGENTINA-URUGUAY: Joint Environmental Monitoring, a Way Forward?
- Inter Press Service
A mutual inspection system, like the one Argentina and Brazil have developed for the nuclear industry, could contribute to solving the conflict between Argentina and Uruguay over pulp mills on border rivers.
SOMALIA: Questions Abound about EU’s 'Combating' of Piracy
- Inter Press Service
Modern German justice had never handled a case of piracy until Jun 11, when 10 Somali seafarers, including children, were presented at a tribunal in the city port of Hamburg, some 300 km west from Berlin, on charges of robbing cargo in the Indian Ocean.
DEVELOPMENT: Violence Escalates Around India’s Largest Inland Lake
- Inter Press Service
Basudev Dalai, 43, never thought that the fishing village where he has lived all his life and which has been home to generations of fishermen like him would be embroiled in violent clashes over the very source of their livelihood.
COLOMBIA: Future Holds More of the Same
- Inter Press Service
Few doubt that former defence minister Juan Manuel Santos will be the next president of Colombia, and that he will continue the policies of President Álvaro Uribe. Santos, as Uribe's heir, will basically be more of the same.
Small Arms Treaty Could Make Dent in Gang Violence
- Inter Press Service
Gangs and armed groups may rank below militaries and law enforcement agencies in the possession of firearms, but 'they have consistently shown a willingness to use guns and use them for violence,' says Dr. Jennifer Hazen, a senior researcher with the authoritative Small Arms Survey.
Civil Society Pushes for Action Ahead of MDG Review
- Inter Press Service
As a major high-level meeting on the Millennium Development Goals approaches at U.N. headquarters in September, anti- poverty and human rights activists are stepping up efforts to have their voices heard.
China-EU Rivalry in Africa Sharpens
- Inter Press Service
If China needed another prompt that the European powers have finally woken up to the fact they were losing the competition for the Africa pie, it came with France’s bid to recapture lost ground this month.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Food Security Further Undermined by Climate Disasters
- Inter Press Service
Adverse climatic conditions and weather-related disasters are damaging crops in El Salvador and neighbouring countries in Central America, aggravating the food vulnerability that the region already faces.
/CORRECTED REPEAT/THAILAND: A Year Later, Laid-off Women Still Pursuing Own Venture
- Inter Press Service
They were about 1,000 when they began, but that number quickly dwindled to some 400. Now the women working at Try Arm are down to 30, yet those running the cooperative that makes women’s undergarments are determined to succeed.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Maldives Inches Closer to HCFC Phase-out
- Inter Press Service
The Maldives Islands, fast gaining a reputation for ‘walking the talk’ as it raises its tiny island voice in the climate change discourse, has launched an action plan to phase out hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by 2020, or 10 years ahead of other countries and the target set by an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
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