Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1116
Middle East Entrepreneurs Eye Education
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Nov 20 (IPS) - The Middle East has some of the best and worst education systems in the world and they are attracting the attention of entrepreneurs keen to make a difference – and a buck.
Syrian Refugees Illegally Pushed Back
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Nov 20 (IPS) - Human rights groups have circulated evidence in the last few days indicating that Greece, Italy and Egypt illegally detain and push back Syrian refugees.
Widening Inequality Shatters Mirage of Social Mobility
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 20 (IPS) - Growing income inequality will pose a major threat to social stability in countries around the globe, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum.
Carbon Emissions on Tragic Trajectory
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 19 (IPS) - Burning of fossil fuels added a record 36 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in 2013, locking in even more heating of the planet.
Grappling to Give Uganda’s Fistula Patients Dignity
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA?, Nov 19 (IPS) - Ever since giving birth to a stillborn baby 15 years ago, Mary*, a peasant farmer living in Mubende District, central Uganda, has continuously leaked urine.
Demarcation of Native Territories Essential for Venezuela’s Amazon Region
- Inter Press Service
CAÑO DE UÑA, Amazonas, Venezuela, Nov 19 (IPS) - "All of the countries of the Amazon basin say they want to protect the environment, but they all have agreements with transnational corporations for the construction of roads or for mining and exploitation of forests," Curripaco indigenous leader Gregorio Díaz Mirabal, from the south of Venezuela, told Tierramérica.*
Poor Paths Lead to Madrassas
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 19 (IPS) - Mustafa Khan, who sells cigarettes by the roadside in a Pakistani village, has a simple reason for sending two of his sons to a madrassa, an Islamic seminary, and not to a proper school. "We cannot afford it," he says.
More Chileans Want the Benefits of Living in Latin America’s ‘Tiger’
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Nov 19 (IPS) - Hugo Hurtado, 47, is a chef. Anyone would say that in his country, Chile, the Latin American "tiger", his profession would be synonymous with success and even fame. But unfortunately that's not true.
Déjà Vu All Over Again for Indebted Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) - On May 23, shortly after wrapping up negotiations on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 93- million-dollar loan - its second in three years - to keep Jamaica out of default, the fund's mission chief in the country, Jan Kees Martijn, set out to visit Croydon, a former plantation settlement in the mountainous northwest of the island.
Typhoon Haiyan Exposes Flaws in U.S. Food Aid
- Inter Press Service
, Nov 18 (IPS) - Even as Washington has mounted a strikingly robust response to the humanitarian crisis in the Philippines, the ongoing effort is highlighting important gaps in the United States' emergency relief capability – gaps that could start to be addressed through legislative reforms currently under debate in the U.S. Congress.
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