Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1076
South Africa Battles Drug-Resistant TB
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 12 (IPS) - Despite an increase in diagnosis times, South Africa is facing a growing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) burden as nationally there remains a large gap between the number of patients diagnosed with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and those who start treatment.
Koreans Embrace Some Old Ways
- Inter Press Service
SEOUL, Mar 12 (IPS) - Old family bonds still seem to run deep in the South Korea of today. For evidence, one need only look at the yearning of the elderly to meet their long separated kin in North Korea during last month's historic family reunions.
Q&A: Women Hold the Key to Peace in DRC
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Mar 12 (IPS) - Ireland's former President Mary Robinson has been working hard to include women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region in the regional peacebuilding process. Because without their involvement, she says, peace and security in the region will be unrealistic.
Brazilian Innovation for Under-financed Mozambican Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Mar 12 (IPS) - Some of the technological excellence that revolutionised Brazil's tropical agriculture is reaching small producers in Mozambique. But it is not enough to compensate for the underfinancing of the sector.
U.S. Oil Firm Creates Tension over Western Sahara
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) - Even as U.S. and Moroccan executives meet to discuss strengthening private sector ties between the two countries, advocacy groups are raising concerns about plans by a U.S. energy firm to explore for oil in the contested territory known as Western Sahara.
Bachelet to Recalibrate Chile’s Foreign Policy
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 11 (IPS) - For the past four years, the foreign policy of Chile, South America's "miracle", has focused more on economic than political issues.
The Rich Complain That we do not Love Them
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 11 (IPS) - F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said "The rich are different from you or me", yet in his days, in the early years of the 20th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were generally an object of envy, not resentment.
Justice Breakdown Blamed for South Africa's Rising Mob Justice
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, Mar 11 (IPS) - Margaret Feke* got off a taxi in Khayelitsha, a township in Cape Town, South Africa, carrying a package of new clothes for her son who was due to leave for his traditional initiation into manhood in the Transkei the following day.
Sea Swallows the Stories of Africans Drowned at Ceuta
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 10 (IPS) - "Who will speak for them now? Who will tell their stories to their families in Cameroon or Ivory Coast?" asked Edmund Okeke, a Nigerian, about the 16 migrants who died while trying to swim to the shore of the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco.
Stateless in Nepal
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Mar 10 (IPS) - Around 4.3 million of Nepal's 27 million population lack citizenship documents, rendering them stateless, says a report by the Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD), which works to promote and protect the interests of Nepali women.
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