Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1164
Industry in Argentina Going Strong, But More Is Needed
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 24 (IPS) - Industry in Argentina has seen a sustained rise in production, exports and employment since 2003. But in order for this trend to become a structural change, greater import substitution is needed, analysts say.
Where Sports Replace Terror
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 24 (IPS) - Pakistanis are no strangers to sports-related violence; in fact, many have come to expect scuffles and conflict, especially following a major cricket match. In the country's northern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), however, cricket has become a tool to promote peace.
Thou Shalt Not Eat Meat… On Mondays At Least
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jul 24 (IPS) - Nutritionists are promoting an 11th commandment in Mexico: "Thou shalt not eat meat… at least one day a week."
Poland’s Shale Gas Bubble ‘Bursting’
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Jul 24 (IPS) - Since Jun. 3, inhabitants of the village Zurawlow in Grabowiec district in southeastern Poland have been occupying a field in their locality where the U.S. company Chevron plans to drill for shale gas. The farmers' resistance is just the latest blow to shale gas proponents in the country.
Smallholders Feed a Nation as Land Reform Fails
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jul 23 (IPS) - Moses Chiengerere is one of the Zimbabwe's hundreds of thousands of smallholder maize farmers keeping this southern African nation's granaries stocked with the grain.
‘Missing Melody in the Tune of Sustainable Development’
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Jul 23 (IPS) - It is 10.26 am in Kampala and a Ugandan woman is airing her gripe about the opposite sex on the airwaves.
Rouhani Faces Tests at Home and Abroad
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The successful campaign of Iran's President-elect Hassan Rouhani may have been built on the persistence of hope among Iranian voters for a better future.
Q&A: Swiss Cooperation in Cuba Has Broad Focus
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jul 23 (IPS) - "The basic objective of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is people's welfare, and I think that in this we have many affinities with what the Cuban government wants," Regula Bäbler told IPS.
Justice Over G8 Killing Delayed and Denied
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 23 (IPS) - "It was midnight and I was sleeping; I woke up to the noise of the police breaking down the entrance door of the school," says Italian journalist Lorenzo Guadagnucci. "They came in running and screaming. The bashing was immediate, with no chance of mediation."
World Bank “Falling Behind” on Human Rights, Critics Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - The World Bank is being urged to explicitly incorporate human rights into its development lending criteria, ahead of an important discussion on the subject by its executive board on Tuesday.
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