Buscador: Globalització

25/04/2005 The results of a three-year scientific study released this month in India show that farmers are worse off financially after they switch to genetically-modified crops. The study showed that farmers who grew Monsanto's genetically-modified Bt* cotton between 2002 and 2005 had higher input costs and lower yields than farmers who grew non-GM cotton varieties.

22/04/2005 Jennifer Moore is a bland English name. So why, when I am looking at women's clothes in a department store and see that name on labels, do I think of Guatemalan women and children bent over sewing machines? Rosita Escobar came to Canada to tell us about these thousands of women and girls who work in sweatshops called maquilas that produce the garments that end up in our fancy shops with inflated prices. Jennifer Moore is just one of hundreds of labels used to produce clothing for our consumption–crazy society.

19/04/2005 The International Fact-finding and Solidarity Mission to Haiti, headed by Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Nora Cortiñas of the Mothers of the May Square-Founders’ Line and composed of 20 representatives of social, cultural, and political movements, networks, and institutions from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Africa, would like first of all to thank the many people and organizations in Haiti who made this visit possible and who shared with us their experiences, testimonies, aches and hopes.

19/04/2005 Venezuela será sede de II Foro Social de las Américas y Foro Social Mundial / Américas. Foro Social Mundial apoyará a Venezuela en cambio sociales. Las Organizaciones Sociales de América y del Mundo apoyarán y ofrecerán su solidaridad a la hermana República de Venezuela en sus procesos de cambios sociales y políticos distintos a los impuestos por Estados Unidos.

14/04/2005 Duke filluar që nga maji i këtij viti ligji i ri i imigrimit do të jetë i aplikueshëm në Kosovë. Rregullorja 2005/16, që baza e legjislacionit, është nënshkruar nga zëvendës-administratori i Administratës Ndërkombëtare në Kosovë, Lari Rosin. Rregullorja rregullon kornizën ligjore për imigrimin, d.m.th. definon kategorinë e personave të cilët mund të hyn në Kosovë, po ashtu dhe dokumentet e nevojshme.

13/04/2005 ROBA dell'Altro Mondo, organizzazione di commercio equo e solidale italiana e promuove in questi giorni insieme alle altre organizzazioni dell'Osservatorio Tradewatch su commercio e Wto un expo-presidio di sensibilizzazione permanente nel Parlamento Europeo di Strasburgo per la Global Week of Action, settimana di mobilitazione globale per un commercio giusto che in questi giorni sta mobilitando oltre 10 milioni di persone in 80 paesi di tutto il mondo. "I fallimenti del libero commercio: nuove proposte per riportare le persone e i loro diritti al centro del commercio internazionale, l'esempio del commercio equo e solidale" e' il titolo del dibattito nel quale le ong europee si sono confrontate a Strasburgo con i parlamentari europei invitati da Vittorio Agnoletto, parlamentare del gruppo GUE e Pierre Schapira del gruppo PSE, con l'intervento della presidente della Commissione Sviluppo Luisa Morgantini.

13/04/2005 U.S. policymakers will vote on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the next week. Food First is staging a national call-in day against CAFTA on April 13, to prevent the marginalisation of small farmers in Central America and the United States, and urges you to join in.

11/04/2005 Komisioni Evropian ka adoptuar Programin e tij Vjetor për Kosovën. Në vitin 2005, brenda Programit për Ndihmë Komuniteteve për Rindërtim, Zhvillim dhe Stabilizim (CARDS), shuma totale prej 54 milionë eurosh do të shpenzohet për të mbështetur Kosovën.

11/04/2005 Hrvatsko bioetičko društvo, Hrvatsko agronomsko društvo, Udruga Eko Kvarner i udruga Akcija za EKO poslale su Hrvatskom saboru, predsjedniku Republike Hrvatske, sabora i Vlade odvojena pisma kojima pozivaju na opći referendum o načinu zakonskog reguliranja GMO u Hrvatskoj.

11/04/2005 Joukkoliikkeiden synty ei pysähtynytkään postmoderniin aatteettomuuden aikakauteen, kuten piti – sen todistivat miljoonat sodanvastaiseen mielenosoitukseen osallistuneet helmikuussa 2003. Hyökkäys Irakiin kohdensi uudelleen Seattlessa alkanutta globalisaatiokriittistä liikettä, jonka seuraava koitos on heinäkuun G8-kokous Skotlannissa.

04/04/2005 Alternatives sera bientôt dans votre région pour se présenter à vous, mais aussi pour vous entendre parler des réalités de vos régions : fermetures d’usines ou de mines, épuisement des ressources naturelles, impacts des multinationales sur les commerces locaux, impacts des accords de libre-échange et des règles de l’OMC sur les industries locales.

04/04/2005 Globalisaation ongelmia ratkovan, Suomen ja Tansanian isännöimän Helsinki-prosessin yli kaksivuotinen taival huipentuu toiseen Helsinki-konferenssiin syyskuussa 2005. Prosessia seuranneet kansalaisyhteiskuntaa edustavat tahot ovat ymmällään siitä, mitä Helsinki-prosessi konkreettisesti tulee saamaan aikaan ja miten paljon järjestöjen kannattaa tuhlata siihen panoksiaan ylipäätään.

01/04/2005 For two decades, Canada has fought U.S. trade actions. We have fought them under NAFTA, at the World Trade Organization and at its predecessor, the GATT. If we continue to cave in, the Americans will continue to trample over us whenever they have an important interest to protect. In the softwood lumber dispute, we do have alternatives. Despite the ongoing efforts of our continentalist elites, we still have the capacity to assert ourselves and flourish as an independent nation.