Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1011
U.S. Military Joins Ebola Response in West Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 08 (IPS) - The U.S. military over the weekend formally began to support the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Mexico’s Cocopah People Refuse to Disappear
- Inter Press Service
EL MAYOR, Mexico, Sep 08 (IPS) - In their language, Cocopah means "river people". For over 500 years the members of this Amerindian group have lived along the lower Colorado River and delta in the Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona.
OPINION: Testing Time for Tourism
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISO, Sep 08 (IPS) - It is testing time for global tourism. The ongoing political conflicts across North Africa, compounded by military action in the Middle East, Ukraine and Afghanistan, and the spread of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa have put to the test the ability of international tourism to continue to grow amidst crises.
War Over but Not Gaza’s Housing Crisis
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Sep 08 (IPS) - "When the shelling started, I gathered up my family and headed for what I though was a safe place, like a school, but then that became overcrowded and lacked sanitation, so we ended up in the grounds of the hospital."
Latin America’s Anti-drug Policies Feed on the Poor
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, Sep 06 (IPS) - Poor young men, slumdwellers and single mothers are hurt the most by anti-drug policies in Latin America, according to representatives of governments, social organisations and multilateral bodies meeting at the Fifth Latin American Conference on Drug Policies.
Global Summit to Focus on Eradication of Trillion Dollar Corruption
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - New analysis suggests that developing countries are losing a trillion dollars or more each year to tax evasion and corruption facilitated by lax laws in Western countries, raising pressure on global leaders to agree to broad new reforms at an international summit later this year.
World’s Last Remaining Forest Wilderness at Risk
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 05 (IPS) - The world's last remaining forest wilderness is rapidly being lost – and much of this is taking place in Canada, not in Brazil or Indonesia where deforestation has so far made the headlines.
When a Disaster Leaves Bathrooms in its Wake
- Inter Press Service
CAR NICOBAR, India, Sep 05 (IPS) - When the 2004 Asian Tsunami lashed the coasts and island territories of India, one of the hardest hit areas were the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI), which lie due east of mainland India, at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.
Human Rights and Gender Equality Vague in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Sep 04 (IPS) - With the United Nations' post-2015 development agenda currently under discussion, civil society actors in Europe are calling for a firmer stance on human rights and gender equality, including control of assets by women.
Women – the Pillar of the Social Struggle in Chile’s Patagonia Region
- Inter Press Service
COYHAIQUE, Chile, Sep 04 (IPS) - In few places in Chile are women the pillars of community, grassroots rural and environmental movements as they are in the southern wilderness region of Patagonia. It is a social role that history forced them to assume in this remote part of the country.
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