News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 931
TRADE-NEPAL: Himalayan Nation’s Garment Industry in Tatters
- Inter Press Service
These days, First Vice-President of Garment Association (GAN) of Nepal Udaya Raj Pandey is mostly seen at the National Campus rather than the GAN office that he once frequented almost every day. The reason: He has shut down his garment company — Sirin Garments Industries Pvt Ltd — and invested in the educational institution.
Thai, Argentine Textile Workers Unite Against Slave Labour
- Inter Press Service
Textile cooperatives founded by former slave labourers from Argentina and Thailand will jointly launch a new brand of clothing in June to raise awareness about exploitation and promote decent jobs in the garment industry.
ROMANIA: Trade Unions Warn Against Unjustified Pay Cuts
- Inter Press Service
Romania’s trade unions have warned that a series of protests against drastic cuts in pensions and salaries would turn into full-fledged general strikes by month-end unless the government heeded to the needs of ordinary people.
URUGUAY: Job Training Moves 'Trans' Off Streets to Better Future
- Inter Press Service
Ruler in hand, Fabiana draws lines with a pencil on orange cardboard, occasionally pushing her curly hair away from her eyes. Next to her, Fernanda fashions a colourful cardboard box, a prototype for what their cooperative will ultimately produce in large quantities.
EAST AFRICA: Global Players Behind Anti-Counterfeit Law Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The international push behind Kenya’s controversial Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 dates back as far as October 2006 when the World Customs Organisation held its first intellectual property rights (IPRs) seminar in Kampala, the capital of neighbouring Uganda, focusing on East African governments’ enforcement of these rights.
MALAYSIA: Encroaching Forest, Oil Palm Plantations Alarm Villagers
- Inter Press Service
A increasing number of natives in Sarawak state in north Borneo are alarmed at encroaching forest and oil palm plantations, which are taking over their native customary land and destroying their traditional lifestyles and biodiversity.
US-MEXICO: State Visit Highlights Ties, Frustrations
- Inter Press Service
With no major new initiatives on the agenda, President Felipe Calderón's state visit here this week appeared designed primarily to highlight increasingly close ties between the United States and Mexico despite growing frustrations on both sides of the border over immigration, economics and security cooperation.
FINANCE: Ecuador Wants Off the Money-Laundering List
- Inter Press Service
'It sounds incredible, but it's just a matter of a letter that wasn't turned in on time,' Ecuador's attorney general said in regards to the Financial Action Task Force decision to qualify the country as 'posing a risk to the international financial system.'
South America on Guard Against Europe's Economic Woes
- Inter Press Service
Although the European Union's financial bailout of Greece to avoid contagion of the crisis to other eurozone countries has had positive effects, South America is not ruling out collateral damage, especially from austerity measures demanded from Spain and Portugal and being considered for other EU countries.
AFRICA: Better Data Key to Supporting Women Farmers
- Inter Press Service
An accomplished farmer who won the coveted Woman Farmer of the Year Award in 2008, Thabile Dlamini-Gooday wants to uplift the standard of other women in agriculture. She believes that if women farmers were to work together they could fight hunger and significantly reduce poverty among themselves.
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