Globalisation

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Democracy In Conflict With Free Market Policy

By IPS Correspondents
Two years ago India was the toast of global investors at the World Economic Forum meet in Davos with the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proudly proclaiming the country as the ‘world’s largest free market democracy’.
Aminata Dramane Traoré Credit:

Q&A: ‘If the WSF Didn’t Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Create It’

By IPS Correspondents
Aminata Dramane Traoré, one of the leaders of the anti-globalisation movement in Mali, reckons that the World Social Forum (WSF) is a representative movement that is essential to the common struggle of people oppressed by a "violent world economy" which often flouts fundamental rights.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Kenya’s Forum to Debate Democracy

By IPS Correspondents
During the World Social Forum (WSF) held in Kenya in January of 2007 one of the many presentations was about democracy and the general elections that were to be held here in December.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos Credit:

Q&A: ‘WSF Is As Much a Cultural Struggle As a Political One’

By IPS Correspondents
The movement against capitalism, injustice and oppression requires a strong convergence of social organisations that have fully accepted their differences, said sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, who predicted serious future difficulties for World Social Forum (WSF) meetings.

EU-CARIBBEAN: New EPA Sets Timeline For Trade Liberalisation

By IPS Correspondents
Come Jan.1 a new trade and aid pact between fifteen Caribbean nations and the 27 members of the European Union (EU) kicks into force heralding in a new era in relations between the two trade blocs that will be based largely on reciprocity rather than protected trade, as has been the case for centuries.

HEALTH-INDIA: Prime Destination for Unethical Clinical Trials

By Keya Acharya
Lack of regulation, accountability, low costs of operation and wide availability of target participants are reasons why multinational drug companies, researchers and institutions are increasingly basing their clinical trials in India.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Serious Security Threat Warns Report

By IPS Correspondents
While science and economics dominate the ongoing United Nations climate change conference in Bali, a new report warns of another serious consequence to global warming related events - increased conflicts in vulnerable areas.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Who Pays for Carbon on &#39Made in China&#39 Labels?

By IPS Correspondents
Standing on the brink of a year when its capital hosts the much-proclaimed ‘Green Olympics’, China is anxious to present a constructive presence at the United Nations climate change conference underway in Bali, Indonesia.

RIGHTS: World Social Forum and World Economic Forum – A Bridge Too Far?

By Gustavo Capdevila
A group of human rights organisations will attempt to bridge the gap between two antagonistic camps in January: the World Economic Forum which meets in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, and the World Social Forum, generally held in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Thorns in the Booming Cut-Rose Industry

By Keya Acharya
Victims of Cyclone Sidr waiting for help on the banks of a river in Barguna district Credit: Farid Ahmed/IPS

CLIMATE CHANGE: Bangladesh Takes Its Trauma to Bali

By IPS Correspondents
Bangladesh sees in the United Nations climate change conference, currently underway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, an opportunity to remind the world of its special vulnerability.
Credit: Alan Lodge/Indymedia UK

CLIMATE CHANGE-JAPAN: Looking to Play a Key Role in Bali

By IPS Correspondents
Japan expects to play a key role at the 11-day conference which begins Monday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCC).

CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America Wants Rich Nations to Foot the Bill

By Mario Osava
Latin American governments will call for greater commitments from industrialised countries to curb climate change and to provide financial support for developing countries to deal with its effects.

HELSINKI PROCESS: Globalisation in the Dock

By Francis Kokutse
The latest conference to be held under the Helsinki Process opened in Tanzania's commercial hub, Dar es Salaam, Tuesday, with calls for the gains of globalisation to be shared fairly amongst nations.

HELSINKI PROCESS: More Development and Security in Exchange For Small Arms

By Julio Godoy
Increasing international co-operation in exchange for guns and improving the sense of domestic security are promising strategies for reducing the number of small weapons in the hands of civilians in developing countries, a leading expert on the matter says.

Q&A: “If It Is Globalisation, It Must Be Everybody’s”

By IPS Correspondents
The "war on terror" is not everybody's language, nor for that matter is "globalisation", says Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Nor is anyone right to think that religious radicalism is really an Islamic problem, he says.

TRADE: Developing Countries Close Ranks

By Gustavo Capdevila
Governments of poor countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) made a show of unity the day after the sixth anniversary of the start of the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks.

POLITICS-INDIA: Communists Turn Unpopular Over SEZ Plans

By Sujoy Dhar
When acclaimed filmmaker Aparna Sen refused to participate in a state-run film festival, that began on the weekend, it was a sign of how alienated Bengali intellectuals have become from a programme of economic reforms undertaken by Marxists who have ruled West Bengal state for 30 years.

DEVELOPMENT: Millennium Goals Are Possible

By Gustavo Capdevila
The world’s poorest countries, even those of sub-Saharan Africa, are ‘’approaching’’ the Millennium Development Goals, the new Trade and Development Index (TDI) indicates.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Highlighting the Amazon’s Diversity

By Mario Osava
The international council of the World Social Forum met this week in the northern Brazilian city of Belem to plan the next steps to be taken by global activists, including the eighth edition of the WSF, to be held in January 2009 in Brazil’s Amazon region.

LABOUR: WTO Dusts Off Hidden Collection of Workers’ Art

By Gustavo Capdevila
Works of art with a powerful social message, donated by trade unions in the first half of the 20th century, will again be displayed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters after being deliberately hidden for the past 30 years.
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