Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1189
Coming Out in Droves Against Drones
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 13 (IPS) - Though the constant hum of unmanned aerial vehicles flying overhead makes a strong case for staying indoors, residents of Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency are emerging in droves from their humble homes, some no bigger than huts constructed from mud and stones.
OP-ED: In South Sudan, Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 13 (IPS) - Akech B. loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, her uncle who was raising her forced her to leave school to marry a man Akech described as old and gray-haired. The man paid 75 cows as dowry for Akech. He was already married to another woman with whom he had several children.
Putting Uganda’s Working Kids Back in School
- Inter Press Service
, Jun 13 (IPS) - Children around the world may complain about attending school and doing their homework, but not 14-year-old Raya*. For two years she was forced by her illiterate parents to spend every day, rain or shine, selling sugar cane from the family garden to customers on the streets of Entebbe, about 35 km outside the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Climate Change Threatens Water and Food Security in Antigua
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Jun 12 (IPS) - With their islands devoid of rivers or streams, farmers in Antigua and Barbuda have been building dams and ponds for centuries, harvesting rainwater to irrigate their crops and provide drinking water for their livestock.
Economic Issues Murky As Iranians Go To Polls
- Inter Press Service
TEHRAN, Iran, Jun 12 (IPS) - Talking to ordinary people in Neishabour and Tehran about Iran's June 14 presidential election, economic issues seem foremost on their minds. But whom they will vote for is based on vague promises to pull the economy out of its deep crisis rather than well-defined economic programs.
"Carbon Farming" Makes Waves at Stalled Bonn Talks
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 12 (IPS) - U.N. climate talks have largely stalled with the suspension of one of three negotiating tracks at a key mid-year session in Bonn, Germany.
‘Happy Prostitutes’ AIDS Campaign Sparks Debate
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - Happiness, the subject of endless philosophical discussions, has now become the focus of controversy in an HIV/AIDS prevention campaign aimed at prostitutes in Brazil. The campaign chief has been booted out and a further question has been raised: What are the limits of popular participation in the definition of public policies?
In Sri Lanka, the Tempest Comes Unannounced
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jun 12 (IPS) - It was several hours before dawn when Afthas Niflal, a young fisherman in southern Sri Lanka, felt the sea start to rumble beneath him.
Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
- Inter Press Service
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Jun 12 (IPS) - Khadija Komboani's nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania's Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar.
Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel Savings
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag's apartment in one of Cairo's poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building.
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