Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1176
Obama Plan to Electrify Africa Offers a “New Model” of Aid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - During an eight-day trip to Africa, President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious plan to improve access to electricity across the continent, a move the White House says is designed to lift Sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty and help the region develop a stable middle class.
Obama Announces New U.S. Focus on Wildlife Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - President Barack Obama on Monday announced a series of new initiatives to combat spiking levels of international poaching and draft a new national plan on wildlife trafficking, an industry that has grown so significantly in recent years that the president now calls it an "international crisis".
Q&A: World Needs a Plan for Expected Waves of Climate Refugees
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - Untold thousands dead and thousands more stranded or missing - these are the latest figures from various reports on the devastation caused by flash floods in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Media Scholars Decry Financial Crisis, Call for Action
- Inter Press Service
DUBLIN, Ireland, Jul 01 (IPS) - Communications scholars from around the world deplored the global financial crisis and called on their peers to take more active roles in the search for solutions at a recent four-day conference in Dublin, Ireland.
China Leads Battle Against Poverty, Says U.N.
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 01 (IPS) - The United Nations has singled out China - the world's most populous country with over 1.3 billion people - as one of the key success stories in the longstanding battle against poverty.
Latin America Can Feed the World
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 01 (IPS) - With its abundant natural resources, productive capacity and rising investment, Latin America looks set to become of the main suppliers to meet the growing, diverse and increasingly sophisticated global demand for food.
At Forty, CARICOM Has Few Laurels to Rest On
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 01 (IPS) - Four decades after they signed the treaty establishing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), government leaders are gathering in Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of the integration process, as they seek to give greater meaning to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) that encourages the free movement of nationals across the 15-member grouping.
Fleeing with What’s Most Important
- Inter Press Service
RWAMWANJA REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda, Jul 01 (IPS) - If you were forced to flee your home to survive, what would you take? What could you take? Jean Claude "Van Damme" Ndongizimana, 20, escaped from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with just the bag in which he kept his profits from selling milk and the clothes on his back.
The New Fascism
- Inter Press Service
ALFAZ, Spain, Jul 01 (IPS) - The atrocious Second World War left behind lasting damage by lowering our standards for what is marginally acceptable.
Tunisia Tiring of Transition
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Jun 30 (IPS) - In the third year after the revolution that toppled former dictator Ben Ali, true democracy is still work in progress in Tunisia.
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