Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1157
Music as Social Inclusion Shines in Salzburg
- Inter Press Service
SALZBURG, Austria, Aug 09 (IPS) - A sea of white-gloved hands swaying gracefully to the rhythm of tropical music shows the audience in the hallowed Mozarteum concert hall in this Austrian city how Venezuela is combining musical education and social inclusion.
UNFPA to Focus on Women's Rights at Montevideo Conference
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 09 (IPS) - When the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) hosts a regional review conference in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo next week, it will take stock of the successes and failures of a wide range of gender-related issues, including reproductive health, sexual violence, women's rights, maternal mortality, and the spread of HIV/AIDS – all of them relating to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Corruption Scandal Fuels Calls for Strict Party Funding Rules
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Aug 09 (IPS) - The corruption scandal enveloping the governing conservative People's Party in Spain and its leader, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, calls into question the funding model for political parties and points towards the need for strict controls, experts say.
Rescue Sinks Greece Further
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Aug 09 (IPS) - Greece has started unravelling its civil sector further in an attempt to persuade the Troika - the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission - to commit more bailout money by next October.
Slum Farmers Rise Above the Sewers
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) - Tucked deep in Kenya's sprawling Kibera slum is the shanty that Alice Atieno calls home. It is just one among many small, badly-lit shacks built close together in this crowded slum where an estimated one million people live on about 400 hectares.
Taliban Fights Missing Trousers
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Aug 09 (IPS) - A new Taliban fashion directive to men has created surprise and drawn opposition. Orders to men to wear the loose traditional dress rather than trousers have been challenged on the grounds that men in the northwest of Pakistan do not wear trousers in the first place.
Part of Indian Heritage Site Bulldozed for a Road
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 08 (IPS) - The village of Hampi located in India's southern state of Karnataka has long been an attraction for tourists from all over the world.
Cameroonians See REDD
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, Aug 08 (IPS) - Uncertainty over property rights and access to forest land is potentially a major stumbling block for implementing the United Nations collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in Cameroon.
Zimbabwe's Electoral Commission Shaken by Vote
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Aug 08 (IPS) - As a second commissioner from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) resigns, local opposition parties and analysts are questioning the organisation's credibility and President Robert Mugabe's victory.
Ancient Kings Fight Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Aug 08 (IPS) - Life for a widow with young children in Sri Lanka's poor agrarian areas can be harsh. Families in remote areas like Anuradhapura in the North Central Province barely eke out a living through paddy cultivation or through vegetable and other crops planted in cleared jungle shrub - Chena cultivation as it is called.
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