Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1065
Soaring Child Poverty – a Blemish on Spain
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Apr 09 (IPS) - "I don't want them to grow up with the notion that they're poor," says Catalina González, referring to her two young sons. The family has been living in an apartment rent-free since December in exchange for fixing it up, in the southern Spanish city of Málaga.
Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.
OP-ED: Climate Change May Affect Your Travel Plans – and Those of Millions of Animals
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSÉ, Apr 09 (IPS) - There are few experiences more frustrating than a delay in travel plans caused by bad weather. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this may be something we will have to get used to in the future.
Kenya’s Pastoralists Show their Green Thumbs
- Inter Press Service
ISIOLO COUNTY, Kenya, Apr 09 (IPS) - For more than a decade Dima Wario from Rupa, a village in Merti division, northern Kenya, escaped death and watched helplessly as many in his community died in a spate of fatal clashes over receding resources.
New Treatments May Defuse Viral Time Bomb
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Apr 09 (IPS) - Mohamed Ibrahim first learned he had hepatitis C when he tried to donate blood. Weeks later he received a letter from the blood clinic telling him he carried antibodies of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). He most likely acquired the disease from a blood transfusion he received during surgery when he was a child.
U.S.-Colombia Labour Rights Plan Falls Short
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - Three years after Colombia agreed to U.S. demands to better protect labour rights and activists, a "Labour Plan of Action" (LPA) drawn up by the two nations is showing mixed results at best, according to U.S. officials and union and rights activists from both countries.
Colombia’s Breadbasket Feels the Pinch of Free Trade
- Inter Press Service
IBAGUÉ, Colombia, Apr 08 (IPS) - "Things are getting worse and worse," Enrique Muñoz, a 67-year-old farmer from the municipality of Cajamarca in the central Colombian department of Tolima, once known as the country's breadbasket, said sadly.
In Eastern Caribbean, Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold
- Inter Press Service
MERO, Dominica, Apr 08 (IPS) - Christmas 2013 was the most "dreary and depressing" Don Corriette can remember in a very long time.
To Tell or Not to Tell? Ugandan Teens Grapple with HIV Disclosure
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Apr 08 (IPS) - Silence is golden, it is said. But not for Ugandan Constance Nansamba*, who paid a dear price for keeping silent about being HIV positive and pregnant at age 18.
IFC-Negotiated Privately Run Hospital Sapping Lesotho Budget
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 07 (IPS) - The world's first hospital to be built and run in a developing country under a public-private partnership is taking up more than half of the health budget in Lesotho, according to new estimates, diverting resources from populations outside of the capital.
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