Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1172
Indonesia's Recurring Forest Fires Threaten Environment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 10 (IPS) - Indonesia's forest fires, a predictable annual ritual, will continue to have serious implications for health and the environment in Southeast Asia unless the government strengthens forest protection, warn environmental groups.
Pray Again to St. Precarious
- Inter Press Service
MILAN, Jul 10 (IPS) - It didn't take the financial crisis for hundreds of thousands of workers across Europe to protest the new plague of the labour market – precarity. But the financial crisis has only made it worse.
Time to Let Sudan's Girls be Girls, Not Brides
- Inter Press Service
KHARTOUM, Jul 10 (IPS) - Lawyers and rights activists are calling for a change in Sudan's laws which allow for the marriage of girls as young as 10.
Afghanistan Faces Slim Chance of Post-Occupation Peace Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - The prospects for a peace settlement and power-sharing in Afghanistan following the scheduled U.S.-led troop withdrawal in 2014 are grim, according to a report presented here Monday.
Brazilian Athletes Left “Homeless” by Olympic City
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 09 (IPS) - With three years to go to the 2016 Olympic Games, hundreds of athletes in the Brazilian city that will host the games were evicted from the only public track field, and have had nowhere to train for the past six months.
A Floral Touch to Employment in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Jul 09 (IPS) - As a little girl, Rubeena Begum had big plans: she would become a doctor and secure a decent income working in one of the 30 hospitals in the Himalayan state of Kashmir in north India.
A New Bretton Woods, to Prevent Future Crises?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jul 09 (IPS) - Almost five years have passed since the global financial crisis, and the world economy is still reeling from its consequences. The main reason for this is the continued stagnation in developed countries, which is adversely affecting economic dynamism in other regions.
Nepal Scores Low on Quality Education
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Jul 09 (IPS) - Sabitri Kumari Das, a middle-aged mother of two, is rightfully worried about her two young daughters: both girls attend a public primary school in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, and neither one of them seems to be advancing academically.
World Bank Doctor Promises Not to Make Prescriptions
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jul 09 (IPS) - Long before he became president of the World Bank, South Korean physician Jim Yong Kim was on the dusty streets of the working-class Lima neighbourhood of Carabayllo, helping cure local residents of tuberculosis.
Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
- Inter Press Service
DIX-HUIT MONTAGNES REGION, Côte d’Ivoire, Jul 09 (IPS) - As the Côte d'Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region.
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