News headlines in July 2013, page 14

GENEVA, Jul 13 (IPS) - The decisions of the United States and the European Union to demand implementation of controversial labour standards in Bangladesh following the Sawa industrial tragedy pose a serious threat to the rule-based global trading system, says Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

ISTANBUL, Jul 13 (IPS) - Among the many issues bringing protestors together at Gezi Park, the now-iconic site of struggle in Istanbul's Taksim Square, is the demand for women's liberation.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 13 (IPS) - The young people who have been protesting in Brazil over the last few weeks, who say they are apolitical and who have organised over the social networking sites, were not entirely pleased with Thursday's demonstrations by the country's trade unions and social and popular movements.

WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (IPS) - No doubt the administration of President Barack Obama had hoped that this week's foreign policy news would be dominated by the high-level U.S.-China Strategic and Economic and Dialogue (S&ED) that just ended here Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Qasim have a lot in common.

TEGUCIGALPA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Honduran society remains shocked at the tragic fate of Aníbal Barrow, a journalist and university professor whose body was dismembered and scattered around a lake in Villanueva, in the northern province of Cortés.

PROGRESO, Mexico, Jul 12 (IPS) - Towns on Mexico's Caribbean coast are behind schedule on the design and implementation of plans to face the challenges of climate change, in spite of the urgency of measures to reduce vulnerability.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) - Apart from being an actress, film producer and writer, Geena Davis is a leading advocate of equal gender portrayal in the entertainment media.

KATHMANDU, Jul 12 (IPS) - As the chief of building codes and earthquake safety of the Lalitpur Municipality, located about 10 km from Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, Sainik Raj Singh has the tough job of cracking down on builders who fail to comply with the government's construction regulations.

PARIS, Jul 12 (IPS) - We were afraid this would happen. We had been warned by books (George Orwell's "1984") and films (Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report") that with the progress being made in communication technology, we would all end up under surveillance.