Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1055
OP-ED: Caribbean Religious Leaders Inspire IMF Sunday Schools
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 05 (IPS) - Last Fall, I witnessed the Grenada Council of Churches insert themselves into negotiations between their government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) around the island's debt restructuring and presumed austerity policies. Religious leaders called from pulpits across the tiny island for a "Jubilee" or national debt cancellation.
Born Free, and Disinterested
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, May 05 (IPS) - South Africa's May 7 elections mark the first time in democratic history that those born into Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation' can vote.
Disabled Forced Into Labour in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 05 (IPS) - Workers Day on May 1 came and went, but it's only a day like any other for disabled 31-year-old street vendor Tsitsi Chikosha making a living selling goods from a makeshift table in downtown Harare.
Yemen Facing Another Implosion
- Inter Press Service
SANA'A, May 05 (IPS) - The popular uprising of 2011 pushed long time Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power but it has emboldened the Houthi movement that is rapidly changing the balance of power in North Yemen.
Myanmar Media Still Not Fully Free
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, May 05 (IPS) - Kyaw Kyaw Aung is just 22, but already has dark memories of days when information, sometimes of the mundane kind, could land you in a dark cell for a very long time in Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation that was under military rule for decades.
On the Street That’s Home
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, May 05 (IPS) - Leila*, 19, has a soft, rasping voice and sad eyes. Her face is striped with long scars but nothing in her neat appearance hints that for the last nine years, her ‘home' has been the streets just north of downtown Cairo.
India’s Poor Face High Infant Deaths
- Inter Press Service
ATTAPPADI, India, May 04 (IPS) - The death of a 10-day-old girl last November in the Attappadi tribal belt of Kerala, one of India's best performing states in terms of human development indices, shows how the country's battle against child mortality is far from won.
With Refugees Comes Crime
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 04 (IPS) - Blaming Afghan refugees for a surge in crime, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has placed restrictions on the movement of those who do not possess legal documents to stay in the country.
A Price to Pay for Selling on the Street
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 03 (IPS) - Bhure Lal, a 33-year-old street-food vendor, has been selling his spicy ‘chaat' outside the New Delhi Railway Station for 15 years. But despite a punishing 12-hour work schedule, and a new law to protect hawkers like him, he doesn't take home enough to feed his family.
U.S. Nearing Approval of Next Generation of Herbicide-Resistant Crops
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - Two key federal agencies here are in the final stages of approving a new herbicide-resistant crop "system" that would constitute the second phase of genetically engineered agriculture, following an announcement this week.
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