Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1015
Threat of Hydropower Dams Still Looms in Chile’s Patagonia
- Inter Press Service
COYHAIQUE, Chile, Aug 26 (IPS) - After its victory in a nearly decade-long struggle against HidroAysén, a project that would have built five large hydroelectric dams on wilderness rivers, Chile's Patagonia region is gearing up for a new battle: blocking a quiet attempt to build a dam on the Cuervo River.
OPINION: Towards a Global Governance Information Clearing House
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN/ROME, Aug 26 (IPS) - Inter Press Service News Agency has braved severe political assaults and financial tempests since 1964, when Roberto Savio and Pablo Piacentini laid its foundation as a unique and challenging information and communication system.
How Midwives on Sierra Leone’s Almost Untouched Turtle Islands are Improving Women’s Health
- Inter Press Service
MATTRU JONG, Sierra Leone, Aug 26 (IPS) - Emmanuel is a male midwife.
At the age of 26, he lives and works on one of eight islands off the southwest peninsular of Sierra Leone, an hour by speedboat from Mattru Jong, the capital of Bonthe District.
OPINION: Boosting Resilience in the Caribbean Countries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 26 (IPS) - Having lived and worked for more than a decade in four Caribbean countries, I have witnessed firsthand how Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are extremely vulnerable to challenges ranging from debt and unemployment to climate change and sea level rise.
Building Public Trust is a Key Factor in Fighting West Africa’s Worst Ebola Outbreak
- Inter Press Service
KANDOPLEU/ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Aug 26 (IPS) - The nurse carefully packs the body into a plastic bag and then leaves the isolation tent, rinsing his feet in a bucket of water that contains bleach. Then he carefully takes off his safety glasses, gloves and mask and burns them in a jerry can.
These Children Just Want to Go Back to School
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 26 (IPS) - Between government efforts to wipe out insurgents from Pakistan's northern, mountainous regions, and the Taliban's own campaign to exercise power over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the real victims of this conflict are often invisible.
The Time for Burning Coal Has Passed
- Inter Press Service
GRABICE, Poland / PROSCHIM, Germany, Aug 26 (IPS) - "People have gathered here to tell their politicians that the way in which we used energy and our environment in the 19th and 20th centuries is now over," says Radek Gawlik, one of Poland's most experienced environmental activists. "The time for burning coal has passed and the sooner we understand this, the better it is for us."
U.N. Conference Set to Bypass Climate Change Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Breakthroughs and Hurdles in Colombia’s Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Aug 25 (IPS) - Three major advances were made over the last week in the peace talks that have been moving forward in Cuba for nearly two years between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, while the decades-old civil war rages on.
OPINION: This Flower Is Right Here
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (IPS) - Where have all the flowers gone? Yes, of course, those are the opening words of a beautiful song made famous by such illustrious singers as Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Vera Lynn and the Kingston Trio, among others. It was a great number made greater by the different styles in which singers of different musical temperaments belted it out.
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