Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1021
For Disenfranchised Haitian Islanders, Tourism Signals a Paradise Lost
- Inter Press Service
ILE À VACHE, Haiti, Aug 08 (IPS) - Calm waters lap the shore beneath stately coconut palms. Mango trees display their bounty alongside mangrove forests. Goats graze peacefully on hillsides.
OPINION: Happy Birthday “UNO-City” – UN’s Vienna Headquarters Marks 35th Anniversary
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Aug 08 (IPS) - Austrians call it "UNO-City". The United Nations calls it the Vienna International Centre (VIC). Both names give a hint of the scale and scope of the U.N's headquarters in the Austrian capital, but not the full story.
Zimbabwean Women Breathe New Life into Private Transport Sector
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Aug 08 (IPS) - Mavis Gotora from Mabvuku high-density suburb, in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, walks up and down, as she persuades one passer-by after another to board the private taxi cab she drives.
Going Back to the Farm in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Aug 07 (IPS) - Scattered houses amidst small fields of vegetables and other crops line the road to the La China farm on the outskirts of the Cuban capital. This is where Hortensia Martínez works – a mechanical engineer who has been called crazy by many for deciding to become a small farmer.
Will Obama’s “New Africa” Deliver on Its Promises?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 07 (IPS) - As the three-day U.S- Africa Leaders Summit here drew to a close Wednesday, experts across the private, public and non-profit sectors continued to debate the opportunities and obstacles posed by the U.S' expanding business partnership with Africa.
Tech Entrepreneur Encourages Rwanda’s Young Women to Venture into ICT
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Aug 07 (IPS) - Akaliza Keza Gara is only 27, but she's achieved much for women in Rwanda's technology sector in just a short space of time.
Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Aug 07 (IPS) - It has been 69 years, but the memory is fresh in the minds of 190,000 survivors and their descendants. It has been 69 years but a formal apology has yet to be issued. It has been 69 years – and the likelihood of it happening all over again is still a frightening reality.
OPINION: For Nigerian Girls, Education Is the Key That Opens Doors to Progress
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 06 (IPS) - I grew up in Nigeria, in a culture where bearing a son validates a woman and her family, and a male innately holds the superior position in society over a female. At 11 years of age, I escorted my mother to deliver her fifth baby girl, my youngest sister, and watched our mom die in the hands of an unfit doctor.
Child Malnutrition Doesn’t Take Vacation in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Aug 06 (IPS) - It's two in the afternoon, and María stirs tomato sauce into a huge pot of pasta. School is out for the summer in Spain, but the lunchroom in this public school in the southern city of Málaga is still open, serving meals to more than 100 children from poor families.
OPINION: Toward an Inclusive TPP Trade Pact
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 06 (IPS) - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have been hitting headlines recently, but not for all the right reasons.
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