Globalisation

TRADE-MEXICO: Competition With China – If You Can’t Beat It, Join It

By IPS Correspondents
China has beaten Mexico hands down in terms of trade in the past few years, and may do even better after December, when a "peace clause" expires.

RIGHTS-INDIA: Landless Farmers Demand a Piece of the Action

By IPS Correspondents
As India revelled over the emergence of homegrown businessman Mukesh Ambani as the world’s richest person, following a stock market spike this week, landless labourers and socially marginalised groups marched into the capital by the thousand demanding a piece of the country’s newfound prosperity.

RIGHTS-EUROPE: &#39Non-lethal Weapons&#39 Tackle Protests Against Globalisation

By Julio Godoy
Several European governments are arming their police forces with a new range of "non-lethal weapons" to put down protests against globalisation, and among immigrants.

DEVELOPMENT: Good or Bad, Globalisation Marches On

By IPS Correspondents
The phenomenon of globalisation is on the rise in several regions of the world not usually thought of as heavyweights on the international stage, according to the seventh annual "Globalisation Index" released here Monday by Foreign Policy magazine.

DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Summit a “Political Endorsement” for Future Plans

By IPS Correspondents
A slew of co-operation agreements emerged from the second IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) summit in Pretoria, South Africa, this week.

RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Indigenous People See Common Ground in Struggles

By Stephen de Tarczynski
Indigenous people around the world are finding common cause in their struggles to retain their identities and their land.

DEVELOPMENT: India, Brazil, South Africa – the Power of Three

By IPS Correspondents
Brazil, India and South Africa will intensify their campaign for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council when their leaders meet in the South African capital, Pretoria, on Oct. 17. President Luiz Inácio da Silva of Brazil, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will discuss U.N. reforms and other issues of common interest at the second IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) summit later this week.

LABOUR-MALAYSIA: New Laws Threaten Workers’ Rights

By Baradan Kuppusamy
As Malaysia celebrates 50 years as an independent nation, this month, there is little to cheer for some 12 million workers who have been dealt a body blow by a government enchanted with neo-liberal policies that promote businesses over their welfare.
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Q&A: EU Promoting Democratic Globalisation

By IPS Correspondents
The European Union (EU) is a world power, the largest import market, and the biggest donor of development aid, which puts it in a position to promote democratic globalisation characterised by peace and social justice, according to Enrique Barón Crespo, a member of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee.

LABOUR-MALAYSIA: Forget Investors, Fix Minimum Wages – Unions

By IPS Correspondents
Malaysia's umbrella trade union body is pressing ahead with its campaign for a minimum wage despite the government's stand that such a benchmark would put off foreign investors seeking a low-cost environment.

LATIN AMERICA: Catholic Church Renews &#39Option for the Poor&#39

By Patricia Grogg
The Roman Catholic Church plans to undertake concrete projects in the next four years to help overcome poverty in Latin America, the region with the most glaring income inequalities in the world.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Dow Unable to Shake Off Bhopal Legacy

By IPS Correspondents
Try as it might Dow Chemical Company is unable to shake off the criminal liability it inherited for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and also responsibility to clean up toxic contamination at the site of the pesticides plant, originally owned and operated by Union Carbide Corporation.

ARGENTINA: A Pause for Thought

By Marcela Valente
Academics from every continent will be meeting next week in Argentina for the Second Extraordinary World Congress of Philosophy, where they will ponder the shape of the future in a context of free-market economics and globalisation.

POLITICS: Global Compact with Business ‘Lacks Teeth’ – NGOs

By Gustavo Capdevila
The U.N.'s Global Compact with international big business "at the moment is so voluntary that it really is a happy-go-lucky club," says Ramesh Singh, chief executive of ActionAid, a non-governmental organisation.

POLITICS: "Take The Bull By the Horns And Move Towards a New Country – Africa"

By IPS Correspondents
Positions are being staked out concerning the establishment of a pan-African government, this at the annual summit of the African Union (AU), underway in Accra. Heads of state and government from around the continent began meeting in the Ghanaian capital Sunday; they will wrap up talks Tuesday.

AFRICA: Food for 12 Billion. So Why Did 854 Million Go Without?

By IPS Correspondents
"As you are suffering from over-consumption, I am suffering from under-consumption. We need to strike a balance," said Mary Wahu Kaara from the Kenya Debt Relief Network with reference to the North and the South.

POLITICS-INDIA: Left’s Bengal Bastion Shaky After 30 Years in Power

By IPS Correspondents
India's Left parties have just set an international record by completing 30 uninterrupted years of elected power in the major state of West Bengal.
Eveline Herfkens, executive coordinator of the Millennium Campaign Credit: Sabina Zaccaro

Q&A: “Too Few African Governments Have Had the Guts to Say ‘No'”

By Eveline Herfkens
While Kofi Annan was the United Nations' secretary-general, he handpicked Eveline Herfkens to be the executive coordinator of the Millennium Campaign, a body which mobilises support for the achievement of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Herfkens had previously worked as the Dutch minister of international development and as an executive director at the World Bank.

TRADE-MALAWI: Clothing and Textiles Become Unstitched

By Pilirani Semu-Banda
Following the liberalization of the global trade in textiles and clothing between 1994 and 2005, Malawi has seen an influx of second-hand clothing on the local market. But while consumers have been happily buying cheap items on almost every street corner, the country's textile industry has been steadily collapsing.

ECONOMY-INDIA: Concern Grows Over Widening Salary Disparities

By IPS Correspondents
While India has always been seen as a land of great socio-economic disparities, of slums co-existing with marble palaces, there is new concern at the rapid pace at which the rich-poor gap is widening.

DEVELOPMENT: The ‘Good Guys’ Chastise the G8 ‘Villains’

By Julio Godoy
"You shouldn't have any doubts, the good guys are us," says Patrick, 20, dressed in jeans, t-shirt, and a sport jacket, with a flamboyant pink Mohawk haircut, as he reads a pamphlet on development aid for Africa.
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