Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1012
No Easy Choices for Syrians with Small Children
- Inter Press Service
GAZIANTEP, Turkey, Sep 04 (IPS) - The woman who walked into the Islamic Front (IF) media office near the Turkish border was on the verge of fainting under the hot Syrian sun, but all she cared about was her infant son.
Indigenous Peoples Seek Presence in Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - The world's 370 million indigenous people, who say they were marginalised in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), want to play a key role in the U.N.'s post-2015 development agenda, which will be finalised next year.
Child Trafficking Rampant in Underdeveloped Indian Villages
- Inter Press Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Sep 04 (IPS) - In a country where well over half the population lives on less than two dollars a day, it takes a lot to shock people. The sight of desperate families traveling in search of money and food, whole communities defecating in the open, old women performing back-breaking labour, all this is simply part of life in India, home to 1.2 billion people.
Sanctions and Retaliations: Simply Unconscionable
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 04 (IPS) - The crisis in Ukraine is a man-made disaster created by world leaders who have been trying to pull Ukraine apart - either towards Europe or Russia.
OPINION: Iraq On the Precipice
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 04 (IPS) - The catastrophic events in Iraq that are unfolding daily are more significant than at any point in recent memory.
Mass Deportations Don’t Squelch Hondurans’ Migration Dreams
- Inter Press Service
CORINTO, Honduras, Sep 03 (IPS) - The clock marks 9 AM when a bus coming from the Mexican city of Tapachula reaches Corinto, on the border between Honduras and Guatemala. It is the first bus of the day, carrying children and their families sent back from a failed attempt at making it across the border into the United States.
With Sewing and Sowing, Self-reliance Blooms in Central Asia
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (IPS) - In the small rural village of Svetlaya Polyana, not far from the city of Karakol in Issyk Kul Province, north-eastern Kyrgyzstan, there is no sewage system and 70 percent of households lack access to hot water.
Criminalisation of Homelessness in U.S. Criticised by United Nations
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 02 (IPS) - A United Nations panel reviewing the U.S. record on racial discrimination has expressed unusually pointed concern over a new pattern of laws it warns is criminalising homelessness.
Afghan “Torn” Women Get Another Chance
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Sep 02 (IPS) - "The smell of faeces and urine isolates them completely. Their husbands abandon them and they become stigmatised forever" – Dr Pashtoon Kohistani barely needs two lines to sum up the drama of those women affected by obstetric fistula.
OPINION: Africans’ Land Rights at Risk as New Agricultural Trend Sweeps Continent
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 01 (IPS) - Agriculture in Africa is in urgent need of investment. Nearly 550 million people there are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, while half of the total population on the continent live in rural areas.
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