Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1111
Uruguay’s Mega-Mining Law in Place – Before the Minerals
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Dic 03 (IPS) - The Uruguayan government, which recently passed a law on large-scale mining, does not actually have a clear idea of the country's mineral wealth and has only just now proposed a geological study to find out.
Restoring Sight to Africa's Gender-Blind Rice Sector
- Inter Press Service
NDOP, Cameroon, Dic 03 (IPS) - For more than 20 years, Anastasia Ngwakun from Bamunkumbit village in central Cameroon has been farming rice the hard way – using only hand tools. But Ngwakun knows that if she were a man, she would have access to the technology that would not require her to work so hard.
Health Gaps Between Most Countries Could Close by 2035
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 03 (IPS) - The gap in health standards between the world's poorest countries and the more advanced middle-income nations could close by the year 2035, according to a major new report published Tuesday by Britain's The Lancet medical journal.
Argentine Protesters vs Monsanto: “The Monster is Right on Top of Us”
- Inter Press Service
MALVINAS ARGENTINAS, Córdoba, Argentina, Dic 02 (IPS) - The people of this working-class suburb of Córdoba in Argentina's central farming belt stoically put up with the spraying of the week-killer glyphosate on the fields surrounding their neighbourhood. But the last straw was when U.S. biotech giant Monsanto showed up to build a seed plant.
Unexploded Shells Tearing Lives Apart
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Dic 02 (IPS) - A vast and picturesque meadow called Tosamaidan, about 112 km west of Jammu and Kashmir's capital Srinagar, has now become the rallying point for hundreds of villagers who want the artillery exercises being carried out there by the Indian Army to stop.
Saving Children From Loggers
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, Dic 01 (IPS) - Logging is the largest industry in the Solomon Islands, an archipelago located northwest of Fiji, where 80 percent of the islands are covered in tropical rainforest. But, although timber accounts for 60 percent of this South Pacific nation's export earnings, most local communities have experienced no beneficial development.
The Carbon Warrior
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dic 01 (IPS) - Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity.
Egypt Begs Gulf for Rescue
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Dic 01 (IPS) - "Subsidies from the Arab world are large and reflect Arabs' love towards the Egyptian people, but we cannot depend on that to build an economy that can compete with other countries," said economist Dr Alia el Mahdi.
Ending AIDS in the City Where It Began
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Dic 01 (IPS) - The façade of 400 Eighth Avenue, home to the largest welfare centre for people with AIDS in New York, is the kind of grey, drab city building that seems like it was dragged, scowling, into the 21st Century.
When Calamity Strikes, Think Local
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Nov 30 (IPS) - More than a month after Cyclone Phailin battered Orissa, tribes in the eastern Indian coastal state are still feeling its wrath. Besides the damage to their homes and hearths, it has also meant a loss of their traditional food.
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