Gustavo Capdevila

LABOUR: Unions Say Globalisation’s Worst is Yet to Come

The world trade union movement fears that globalisation and multi-national activities will create difficult times for labour organisers in the next century.

LABOUR: Int’l Union Urges Respect for Rights of Migrants

By Gustavo Capdevila

Migration flows, which move at least 15 million people worldwide annually, have come to stay, and people had better get used to what isn't going to change, the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) recommended in a new report.

ENVIRONMENT: Aircraft Trails Threaten Climate

By Gustavo Capdevila

Aircraft emissions are changing the concentration of gases in the upper atmosphere, contributing to climate change and increased global temperatures, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

ENVIRONMENT: Aircraft Trails Threaten Climate

By Gustavo Capdevila

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DISARMAMENT: UN Negotiations Need Jump-Start

By Gustavo Capdevila

The president of the UN Conference on Disarmament, Mohamed-Salam Dembri, says that negotiations on reducing arms would continue despite current armed conflicts and internal disagreements on arms controls.

TRADE: Farmers from India Tour Europe to Protest Free Trade

By Gustavo Capdevila

A caravan of 400 farmers from India is setting off from Germany this week on a tour of 11 European countries to denounce the "devastating" effects of globalisation on the economy.

HEALTH: Brundtland Receives Broad Mandate to Fight Smoking, Polio

By Gustavo Capdevila

The global assembly of health ministers expressed "very strong support" for World Health Organisation (WHO) Director Gro Harlem Brundtland to implement anti-smoking programmes and measures against malaria, and to deal the final blow to poliomyelitis.

TRADE: Farmers from India Tour Europe to Protest Free Trade

By Gustavo Capdevila

A caravan of 400 farmers from India is setting off from Germany this week on a tour of 11 European countries to denounce the "devastating" effects of globalisation on the economy.

HEALTH: World Bank Urges Focus on Tobacco Use, Instead of Supply

By Gustavo Capdevila

Policies recommended by a new World Bank study aimed at preventing millions of smoking-related deaths focus more on reducing consumption than on curtailing supply.

TRADE: Int’l Network Against Free Trade to Stage Protests in US

By Gustavo Capdevila

Peoples' Global Action against 'Free' Trade and the World Trade Organisation (PGA), an international network of workers, small farmers and indigenous groups, is preparing an inter-continental caravan to protest this year's meeting of trade ministers in the U.S. city of Seattle.

TRADE: WTO Paralysed by Dispute Over Leadership

By Gustavo Capdevila

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) remained caught up Monday in an at times bitter confrontation between the two blocks of countries disputing the future leadership of the global body.

HEALTH: Outlook for Mental Disorders Even Worse for 21st Century

By Gustavo Capdevila

Few advances and significant deterioration have been seen in terms of mental health in the 20th century, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) - which warned, however, that the outlook would be even worse in the future if "substantive measures" were not adopted.

HUMAN RIGHTS: Decisive Vote for Abolition of Death Penalty

By Gustavo Capdevila

"Hands Off Cain", a league of international personalities advocating the abolition of capital punishment, is confident of obtaining greater support at the present annual session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

RIGHTS-WOMEN: Governments Indifferent to Domestic Violence

By Gustavo Capdevila

The progess made by states in acknowledging domestic violence against women as an important human rights issue stands in contrast with the lack of strategies for implemention of the commitments assumed, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.