Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1057
DR Congo’s Red Light to Invention
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 30 (IPS) - "There are several robots in the world, but that one which regulates traffic is made in Congo," Thérèse Izayi, a female engineer and the Congolese inventor of two very unusual traffic signals, tells IPS.
Governments Crushing Their Own
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Apr 30 (IPS) - The global spectre of state violence against political dissent, with paramilitary law enforcement units advancing against citizens they are employed to protect in cities such as Cairo, Bangkok and Kiev is daily news. But in some developing countries, the police are being used to put down indigenous opposition to the alliance of state and corporate power over resource extraction.
Healing the Dark Legacy of Native American Families
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, Oregon, U.S., Apr 29 (IPS) - As a child, 78-year-old Yakama Nation elder Russell Jim was forced to go to a boarding school in Washington State and was beaten for speaking his language.
Obama’s Half-Pivot to Asia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's recent tour of Asia was an opportunity to reenergise his foreign policy after a series of setbacks in the global arena.
Villages in Ghana that No Longer Have Child Deaths to Record
- Inter Press Service
ZANDUA, Ghana, Apr 29 (IPS) - Zainab Abubakar saves children's lives. A few years ago she was just an ordinary woman with no medical training living in rural Kpilo in Ghana's Northern Region.
Leadership Growing Young
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Apr 29 (IPS) - Fidelis Molao was 33 when he became a member of parliament in Botswana for the first time in 2009. He was the youngest MP in the country at the time, and still is, now at age 38. He has long championed youth rights.
Morocco Divided Over Equality
- Inter Press Service
CASABLANCA, Apr 29 (IPS) - Morocco stands divided over a proposal for equal inheritance rights for men and women: modernists see this as application of equality arising from the new constitution, and Islamists see in this a violation of Sharia law.
U.S. Food Aid Reforms May Be Rolled Back
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (IPS) - Lawmakers here may roll back recent landmark reforms to how the United States provides international food aid, despite warnings that doing so would reduce assistance for some two million people worldwide.
Debt and Dirty Energy Weigh Heavy on Puerto Rico's Utility
- Inter Press Service
SAN JUAN, Apr 28 (IPS) - Everyone in Puerto Rico agrees that the island's ailing Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is badly in need of an overhaul, both in engineering and economic terms.
Bangladesh Fights Off HIV
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Apr 28 (IPS) - Shohagi, 19, walks down a corridor to an audience of about a dozen commercial sex workers. In a loud and confident voice, the fellow sex worker shares her knowledge on the use of a condom.
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