Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1031
Defying the Ebola Odds in Sierra Leone
- Inter Press Service
KENEMA, Sierra Leone, Jul 12 (IPS) - Adikali Kamara is a 36-year-old student nurse working in the government hospital in Kenema, a sprawling town on the fringe of the Sierra Leone's Gola tropical rain forest.
Mechanical Pumps Turning Oases into Mirages
- Inter Press Service
BAHARIYA OASIS, Egypt, Jul 12 (IPS) - Using a hoe, farmer Atef Sayyid removes an earthen plug in an irrigation stream, allowing water to spill onto the parcel of land where he grows dates, olives and almonds.
New BRICS Monetary Fund May Reproduce Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
FORTALEZA, Brazil, Jul 12 (IPS) - The first common institutions to be set up by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS – are financial, and have arisen as a result of reforms to an international system that continues to largely ignore the growing influence of emerging countries.
Pakistan: Where Mothers Are Also Children
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jul 11 (IPS) - If 22-year-old Rashda Naureen could go back six years in time, she would never have agreed to get married at the tender age of 16.
Scepticism as “Green Goods” Trade Talks Begin
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 11 (IPS) - Formal negotiations began this week around the increasingly significant global trade in "environmental goods", those technologies seen as environmentally beneficial, including in combating climate change.
Reproductive Rights Take Centre Stage at U.N. Special Session
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 10 (IPS) - As the United Nations continues negotiations on a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for its post-2015 development agenda, population experts are hoping reproductive health will be given significant recognition in the final line-up of the goals later this year.
Young Latin Americans Face Spiral of Unemployment, Poverty
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jul 10 (IPS) - In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next. Civil society groups, academics and young people themselves say it is imperative to strengthen the connection between education today and decent employment tomorrow.
OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jul 10 (IPS) - An African proverb says "a child that we refuse to build today will end up selling the house that we may build tomorrow."
El Niño Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Jul 10 (IPS) - The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security.
Shea Harvesting Good for Income, Bad for the Environment in Ghana
- Inter Press Service
TAMALE, Ghana, Jul 10 (IPS) - The shea tree, a traditional African food plant, represents a major source of income for women in Ghana's Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions, but they are helping to destroy the very resource that gives them money by cutting it down to produce charcoal.
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