Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1070
Drugmakers Agree to U.S. Ban on Livestock Antibiotics
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 27 (IPS) - Pharmaceutical companies have overwhelmingly agreed to new U.S. government guidelines aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics in the raising of livestock, new data shows.
In Venezuela, a Popular Uprising, or Class Warfare?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27 (IPS) - This much is known: at least 33 people are dead and 461 have been wounded. The rest – questions of who, why and what next for Venezuela – has largely been a matter of speculation.
Ugandans Fight for the Right to Access Their Own Medical Records
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 27 (IPS) - Dressed in a white dress with black polka dots and pink and red carnations, white knee-high socks and matching patent shoes, Babirye, recently celebrated her second birthday.
Look Who’s Helping Olive Ridley
- Inter Press Service
GANJAM, India, Mar 27 (IPS) - When Olive Ridley sea turtles nest on the beach in his village, little Warthy Raju can barely wait for the millions of hatchlings, with their three-inch shells and thumb-sized heads, to scramble out.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Middle Class - Growing or Disappearing?
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Mar 27 (IPS) - "I'm middle class. Definitively," Sonia Anoh, a young and independent 30-year-old Ivorian tells IPS. Anoh has a master's degree, earns 1,470 dollars a month working in marketing, lives alone, owns a car and is now shopping for a home.
A Call for Universal Access to Safe, Legal Abortion
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) - Lawmakers and civil society leaders from over 30 countries are calling for universal access to safe, legal abortion.
Ethiopia’s Textile Manufacturers Benefit from Global Interest
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Mar 26 (IPS) - The sign for Salem's directs you off a busy road in Addis Ababa, down a side street to a compound where multiple pairs of feet move up and down working treadles, and wooden shuttles flit back and forth, as Ethiopian sheumanoch — weavers — ply their trade.
A Honduran Paradise that Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again
- Inter Press Service
SANTA ROSA DE AGUÃN, Honduras, Mar 26 (IPS) - At the mouth of the Aguán river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garífuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane Mitch has set an example of adaptation to climate change.
Pacific Islands At Sea Over Land Rights
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Mar 26 (IPS) - For many Pacific Islanders, customary land is the source of life, identity and social security. However, most island states are developing countries, and governments claim land reform is needed to improve infrastructure and economic development. Registration of customary land, the predominant tenure system, with more options for leasing to the state and developers is being promoted as the way forward.
Fighting a 'Losing' War With the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Mar 26 (IPS) - Pakistan is in the midst of a heated debate on continuing military operations against the Taliban in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), especially after the brutal killing of 23 army soldiers last month.
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