Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1179
A Man-Made Himalayan Tsunami?
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 27 (IPS) - On the outskirts of Rudraprayag, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand whose many temples draw tourists and Hindu pilgrims with magnetic force, visitors often stop for a meal at a popular hotel built right on the river Alakananda.
Locals Risk Their Lives Fighting Mining in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
CUERNAVACA, Mexico, Jun 27 (IPS) - "They brutally repressed us. The mining company buys off people's consciences, it divides the community, but we'll keep fighting it. Some people have had to flee the community," Rosalinda Dionisio, a Zapoteca indigenous woman in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, told IPS, sobbing.
Agriculture Leans on Japanese Women
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Jun 26 (IPS) - Yukako Harada, an energetic 29-year-old, is part of a small but determined band of women farmers working hard to revitalise Japan's moribund agricultural sector, which is feeling the crunch of an ageing population and a flood of cheap imports.
Q&A: How One Woman Demands Answers and an End to FGM
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - Bogaletch Gebre knows exactly what women in her Ethiopian community are going through. Along with her sisters, the women's rights activist was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) when she was a child in a part of Ethiopia where the practise was carried out on every girl.
U.N. Downplays Health Effects of Nuclear Radiation
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - The United Nations has come under criticism from medical experts and members of civil society for what these critics consider inaccurate statements about the effects of lingering radioactivity on local populations.
Q&A: Empower Indigenous Women to Assert Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - Women around the world are exposed to domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage. For indigenous women and girls, however, the risk of being victims of such issues are especially high.
Education in Afghanistan – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Jun 26 (IPS) - Despite impressive advancements in enrolment rates, media reports of gas attacks on girls' schools, shoddy books, and a lack of classroom facilities continue to mar the reputation of the education system in Afghanistan.
Creating Their Own Spring
- Inter Press Service
GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 26 (IPS) - The soldiers of former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had left just a few days before, but a group of about 50 children were already singing in the Amazigh language in the village of Yefren, 110 kilometres south of Tripoli. This month will mark two years since the establishment of the first Amazigh school in Libya.
‘Smiling Coast of Africa’ Works to Attract Tourists
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Jun 26 (IPS) - Mr. and Mrs. Gridley* are among a handful of tourists laying pool side and working on their tropical tan at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, a five-star hotel on the idyllic coast of Kololi in the Gambia.
Obama Unveils Plan to Circumvent Congress on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (IPS) - Stymied by the U.S. Congress, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled his vision to reset the United States' incoherent national plan to combat climate change, offering dozens of regulatory tweaks and targets that his administration could now implement without Congressional approval.
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