Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1124
HIV Wave Feared in Central Asia
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Nov 04 (IPS) - Healthcare systems in Eastern Europe and Central Asia remain woefully unable to cope with HIV/AIDS as the region's raging epidemic – the fastest growing in the world – takes on a new dimension, a senior UN official has told IPS.
For Kurdish Women, It’s a Double Revolution
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Nov 04 (IPS) - "I got married when I was 14 and I already had four children at 20," recalls Nafia Brahim. In her fifties now, she is working hard so that no other woman loses control of her life.
A ‘Green Intifadah’ Takes Root
- Inter Press Service
BATTIR, Occupied West Bank, Nov 03 (IPS) - "O green Battir, mother of the air," Mariam Ma'mmar sings in praise of her village. As the hot season draws to a close, the land – her people's strength – dries up. Not here in her Battir, where a peaceful form of resistance against the Israeli occupation is taking root.
Corporations Rewriting U.S. Labour Laws
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 01 (IPS) - U.S. state legislators and corporate lobbies have engaged in an unprecedented attack on minimum wages that has lowered U.S. labour standards, according to new research released Thursday.
Zimbabweans Left Worse Off by Local Mining Companies
- Inter Press Service
MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, Nov 01 (IPS) - Ranganai Zimbeva, from the rural village of Mutoko, which lies about 200 km northeast of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, plugs his ears with his fingers and shakes his head as he watches miners close to his village blast the hard rock to extract the black granite within.
South of the Border, Mining Is King
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 01 (IPS) - Civil society groups from throughout Latin America are urging "home countries" to take greater responsibility for the actions of their companies abroad, particularly those in the extractives industry.
Energy Integration Runs into Short Circuits
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Oct 31 (IPS) - Energy integration efforts in Latin America have been made in fits and starts, even though many clearly understand that the only way to solve the region's energy shortages and high costs is by working together.
In Haiti, Cholera Claims New Victims Daily
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 31 (IPS) - Some 2,400 kilometres from New York City, where victims of Haiti's cholera epidemic are suing the United Nations in a U.S. federal court, the disease continues to burn through the populace with no end in sight.
Ivoirians Face an Incomplete Justice
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, Oct 31 (IPS) - "We are sad. We want our president back," Yao Amandine told IPS from a street corner in the Ivorian economic metropolis, Abidjan, after the International Criminal Court ruled against granting former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo a conditional release on Tuesday.
Critics Question Impact of ‘Pay for Success’ Bonds
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 30 (IPS) - Standing in contrast to government social protection programmes implemented over the past decade by progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new initiative appeals to private investment and uses non-profit service providers.
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