Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1002
Q&A: “The Battle Continues”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - The Programme of Action adopted at the landmark 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) included chapters that defined concrete actions covering some 44 dimensions of population and development, including the need to provide for women and girls during times of conflict, the urgency of investments in young people's capabilities, and the importance of women's political participation and representation.
Panama, a Country and a Canal with Development at Two Speeds
- Inter Press Service
PANAMA CITY, Oct 03 (IPS) - With the expansion of the canal, Panama hopes to see its share of global maritime trade rise threefold. And many Panamanians hope the mega-engineering project will reduce social inequalities in a country where development is moving ahead at two different speeds.
OPINION: Less Hunger in the World and the Challenge for the Media
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 03 (IPS) - It is common belief that good news is less interesting for the general public than bad news; this is why media coverage tends to focus on catastrophic events and disasters, both natural and man-made.
New Global Declaration “Insufficient” to Tackle Deforestation
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 03 (IPS) - Heads of state, civil society groups and the leaders of some of the world's largest companies this week urged their peers to sign on to a landmark new global agreement aimed at halting deforestation by 2030, even as others are warning the accord is too lax.
Documents Detail Secret Talks Between Washington and Havana
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 02 (IPS) - In a new book cataloguing the recent history of clandestine exchanges between the U.S. and Cuba, the reliance on secret intermediaries belies the common perception that the two governments rarely communicated during the decades that followed the Cuban revolution in 1959.
OPINION: From Elephants to Blue Whales, Sri Lanka Leads the Way on Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - Sri Lanka will host the World Biodiversity Congress (WBC) Nov. 24-27. Given its long and active history of preserving biodiversity, it would be most appropriate for Sri Lanka to be the next host of this global event, which also marks the U.N.'s Decade on Biodiversity.
Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 02 (IPS) - "We could be the last Latin American and Caribbean generation living together with hunger."
Puerto Rico's Green Crusaders Still Going Strong
- Inter Press Service
SAN JUAN, Oct 01 (IPS) - The heart of Puerto Rico's central mountain range is the site of an extraordinary story of struggle and triumph.
OPINION: On Reproductive Rights, Progress with Concerns
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 01 (IPS) - For most of human history, reproductive rights essentially meant men and women accepting the number, timing and spacing of their children, as well as possible childlessness. All this changed radically in the second half of the 20th century with the introduction of new medical technologies aimed at both preventing and assisting human reproduction.
Vaca Muerta, the New Frontier of Development in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
LOMA CAMPANA, Argentina, Oct 01 (IPS) - Production here has skyrocketed so fast that for now the installations of the YPF oil company at the Loma Campana deposit in southwest Argentina are a jumble of interconnected shipping containers.
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