Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1145
Cuban Teenagers Overuse Abortion as Birth Control
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 06 (IPS) - In nearly all of Latin America, illegal abortion is a serious public health problem. But in Cuba, where abortion is legal, it is being overused by teenagers.
Q&A: Room for Negotiation in Decisive Battle over the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
SÃO PAULO, Sep 05 (IPS) - Everything indicates that the decisive battle between harnessing hydropower and preserving the Amazon will play out in the Tapajós river basin in Brazil. At stake there are a potential of nearly 30,000 MW and a vital part of the Amazon rainforest.
Cameroonians ‘Dying’ for Fake Drugs
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Sep 05 (IPS) - When Francois Biloa fell ill with malaria, his family did what they had always done in the past – they gave him anti-malaria drugs and antibiotics bought from the local market. Only when his condition worsened and he became bedridden and fell unconscious, did his family take him to a local clinic in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé.
Pashmina Withers on the Roof of the World
- Inter Press Service
CHANGTHANG, India, Sep 05 (IPS) - The famed pashmina shawl that keeps the cold away – in style and at a price – could itself have become the victim of winter. Thousands of goats whose fine wool is weaved into pashmina have perished in extreme cold being associated with climate change.
Domestic Workers Emerge from the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 04 (IPS) - An international convention enters into effect on Thursday that could eventually extend labour rights to as many as 100 million domestic workers across the globe, a constituency that has historically been bypassed by national laws.
Newspapers Are Becoming the Toys of Billionaires
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 04 (IPS) - Few people today know that when the first news agencies were created in the 19th century, the French Havas and the British Reuters divided the world between themselves.
Military Given Full Powers to Fight Crime in Honduras
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Sep 04 (IPS) - Human rights defenders and members of the opposition in Honduras see a new elite military unit created to engage in policing as a drastic setback for the demilitarisation efforts that began two decades ago.
Cash Transfers a Strong Tool Against Inequality
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 04 (IPS) - Latin America's cash transfer programmes are a more effective weapon against poverty and social inequality than economic growth alone, according to a study by two Argentine economists.
Squatting on Kenya’s Mineral Wealth
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 04 (IPS) - Zeinab Mohamed is a 70-year-old squatter in Kwale County, in Kenya's Coast Province. Like many other Coast Province residents, for decades, Mohamed has lived in what squatters call "floating houses".
Mobile Phones Big Hit in Rural Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 04 (IPS) - Prosper Muripo rents a small space in a general dealer's shop at the Gotora shopping centre in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province. He is one of the many people in rural Zimbabwe who earn a living selling recharge vouchers and charging mobile phone batteries on solar-powered chargers.
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