Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1064
U.S. Urged to Push World Bank on Human Rights Safeguards
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - Rights advocates and community leaders, together with some U.S. lawmakers, are urging the United States to take a more robust role in pushing the World Bank to explicitly incorporate human rights into policies that dictate how and when the bank can engage in project lending and technical assistance.
Developing Nations Seek U.N. Retaliation on Bank Cancellations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 10 (IPS) - The 132-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing nations, has urged Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to provide, "as soon as possible...alternative options for banking services" in New York City following the mass cancellation of bank accounts of U.N. missions and foreign diplomats.
World Bank, IMF Urged to Act on New Inequality Focus
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - Global income inequality threatens economic and social viability, according to a World Bank report released Thursday, reiterating a new but increasingly forceful narrative from both the bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
OP-ED: The World Bank’s Waste of Energy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - The World Bank's job is to fight poverty. Key to lifting people out of poverty is access to reliable modern energy. It makes sense.
When Medicines Don't Work Anymore
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 10 (IPS) - The growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is catching the attention of policy-makers, but not at a fast enough rate to tackle it. More diseases are affected by resistance, meaning the bacteria cannot be killed even if different drugs are used on some patients, who then succumb.
In Peru, Low-Income Cancer Patients Find Fresh Hope
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Apr 10 (IPS) - Her tiny fingers and toes have been painted with different shades of nail polish, the bright colours contrasting sharply with the bleak road she has been on for half her young life.
Jordan Faces Looming and Complex Cancer Burden
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Apr 10 (IPS) - The concrete skeleton of a twin 13-storey complex towers over surrounding buildings on one of Amman's busiest streets. The ongoing expansion of the King Hussein Cancer Centre symbolises progress as much as it portends a crisis.
Zimbabwe’s Urban Farmers Combat Food Insecurity — But it’s Illegal
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 10 (IPS) - It is harvest season in Zimbabwe and Janet Zondo is pressed to find space on the piece land she is farming to erect a makeshift granary. Zando says she could very well build a miniature silo, judging by the size of the maize crop that she is preparing to harvest.
Malignant Growth: Battling a New Cancer Pandemic
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 09 (IPS) - Few people in the world can claim to be untouched by cancer. If not personally battling it in one form or another, millions are at this very moment sitting beside loved ones fighting for their lives, visiting friends recovering from chemo, or researching the latest treatments for their relatives.
Obama Says Gender Pay Gap Is No Myth, It’s Math
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - Since his re-election in 2012, President Barack Obama has stepped up his rhetoric around gender equality issues in the United States, but he has yet to get a partisan U.S. Congress to go along with a series of legislative proposals he put forward.
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