Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1112
Storms, Flooding Can Unleash a Toxic Soup
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 30 (IPS) - It's a dirty, smelly business, but wastewater is gaining prominence across the Caribbean as countries from Jamaica in the west to Guyana in the south increasingly recognise its effects on the environment and the importance of improving its management.
Skateboarding Can Be Empowering
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Nov 30 (IPS) - An array of colourful quarter pipes, bank ramps and a fun box come to life as a clutch of Cambodian youngsters do balancing tricks, kick-flips and kick turns. The all-girl session at a skating facility near the Russian Market here is facilitated by 20-year-old Kov Chansangva, popularly known as Tin.
Global Trade Winds Leave the Poor Gasping
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Nov 29 (IPS) - For years, it was the power chamber at the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva - the Director General's Conference Room, more popularly known as the Green Room, where a handful of delegates would gather for important discussions and meetings.
Aiming at NATO, Hitting Afghans
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Nov 29 (IPS) - A blockade of NATO supplies to Afghanistan by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's party has ended up hitting Pakistan's legal trade with its neighbour, say local traders and truckers.
Uganda’s First Female Funeral Director – From Taboo to Mainstream
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Nov 28 (IPS) - Uganda may have the third-highest fertility rate in the world but where there is life, death is inevitable. And it is a certainty that Regina Mukiibi Mugongo made the most of when she became this East African nation's first ever funeral director almost two decades ago.
Femicides in Brazil Hit Civil War Proportions
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 28 (IPS) - The number of femicides – gender-related murders – in Brazil has reached civil war-like proportions. In just 10 years 40,000 women were killed in this country merely for being women, say activists leading the fight against gender violence.
Green-Friendly Enterprise Helps Save Biggest Caribbean Wetlands
- Inter Press Service
CIÉNAGA DE ZAPATA, Cuba, Nov 28 (IPS) - The 18 communities in Cuba's Ciénaga de Zapata, the largest wetlands in the Caribbean, have long survived on the abundant local hunting and fishing and by producing charcoal. But that is no longer possible, due to climate change.
GM Crop Could Migrate Dangerously
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Nov 28 (IPS) - Food security activists who secured a moratorium on introducing genetically modified brinjal (aubergine) into India fear that their efforts are being undermined by the release of GM brinjal in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Pros and Cons of Uganda’s New ARV Therapy for Pregnant Women
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Nov 27 (IPS) - Uganda has gotten plenty of kudos and some criticism over its roll out of the new antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women and their babies, known as Option B +.
‘Business Is Business, Moses Is Moses’
- Inter Press Service
HAIFA, Northern Israel, Nov 27 (IPS) - As civil war paralyses Syria's transit routes and political flux in Egypt may affect security at the Suez Canal, Israel is busy repositioning itself as a transhipment hub and trade gateway to the Middle East.
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