Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1025
Somali Refugees Find an Unlikely Home … In Istanbul
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jul 29 (IPS) - Among the labyrinth of winding narrow streets just outside a major shopping centre in the Kumkapi neighbourhood of Istanbul is a rundown road, congested with shops and apartments stacked atop one another.
Trade Facilitation Will Support African Industrialisation
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 29 (IPS) - In the 1960s, there were high hopes for the development of the newly-independent sub-Saharan African countries but these hopes were quickly dashed following a series of shocks which began in the mid-70s, with the first oil price spikes, followed by a severe decline in growth and increase in poverty in the 80s and early 90s.
Human Development - Latin America Less Than Halfway There
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jul 28 (IPS) - Construction worker Leobardo Gómez has been out of work for nine months since he slipped and fell to the street on a construction site in the Mexican capital in October.
Antigua Weighs High Cost of Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Jul 28 (IPS) - Caught between its quest to grow the economy, create jobs and cut electricity costs, and the negative impacts associated with building an oil refinery, the Antigua and Barbuda government is looking to a mix of clean energy and fossil fuels to address its energy needs.
Outlawing Polygamy to Combat Gender Inequalities, Domestic Violence in Papua New Guinea
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jul 28 (IPS) - New legislation recently passed in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) outlawing polygamy has been welcomed by experts in the country as an initial step forward in the battle against high rates of domestic violence, gender inequality and the spread of AIDS.
Drought and Misuse Behind Lebanon’s Water Scarcity
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jul 28 (IPS) - In front of Osman Bin Affan Mosque, in a central but narrow street of Beirut, several tank trucks are being filled with large amounts of water. The mosque has its own well, which allows it to pump water directly from the aquifers that cross the Lebanese underground. Once filled, the trucks will start going through the city to supply hundreds of homes and shops.
A Carrot Is a Carrot – or Is It?
- Inter Press Service
BUDAPEST, Jul 28 (IPS) - Food security is often thought of as a question of diversifying supply and being able to move food through areas plagued by local scarcity, relying on the global economic system – including trade and transport – as the basis for operations.
OPINION: The Affinity Between Iraqi Sunni Extremists and the Rulers of Saudi Arabia
- Inter Press Service
LEIDEN, Netherlands, Jul 27 (IPS) - Which story line sounds the more credible – that linking the rebel movement ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) to policies pursued by Iran or that linking the Sunni extremist force to Iran's adversary Saudi Arabia?
South Stymies North in Global Trade Talks
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 26 (IPS) - A group of developing countries brought a tectonic shift at the World Trade Organization on Friday by turning the tables against the industrialised countries, when they offered a positive trade agenda to expeditiously arrive at a permanent solution for food security and other development issues, before adopting the protocol of amendment of the contested Trade Facilitation Agreement.
Fish Before Fields to Improve Egypt’s Food Production
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jul 26 (IPS) - Less than four percent of Egypt's land mass is suitable for agriculture, and most of it confined to the densely populated Nile River Valley and Delta. With the nation's population of 85 million expected to double by 2050, government officials are grappling with ways of ensuring food security and raising nutritional standards.
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