Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1190
U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Interests”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - A broad-based alliance of public interest and other groups is warning that years of attacks by business interests has made the U.S. regulatory so inefficient that public safety is being put at risk.
Q&A: U.N. Looks to High Seas to Alleviate Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is convinced there is sufficient global capacity to produce enough food to adequately feed the world's seven billion people.
Labour Violations Under Tight Wraps in Thailand
- Inter Press Service
MAHACHAI, Thailand, Jun 11 (IPS) - Next time you visit Walmart and throw that packet of frozen shrimp in your shopping cart, pause a moment.
OP-ED: Are We at the Tipping Point for Ending Hunger and Malnutrition?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - Author Malcolm Gladwell draws on the science of epidemiology in his book "The Tipping Point" to explain how ideas spread through a population, in the same way as an infectious disease can proceed from a few cases to a full-blown pandemic.
When the Train Passes, But Never Arrives
- Inter Press Service
TUCURINCA, Colombia, Jun 11 (IPS) - José "Goyo" Hernández has never been given a mask to keep him from breathing in the coal dust blowing off the 13 trains that pass daily through this village in the municipality of Zona Bananera in the northern Colombian department of Magdalena, during his 12-hour shift at the railway crossing.
Ukraine Injects Addicts With Hope
- Inter Press Service
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Jun 11 (IPS) - As former presidents, senior diplomats and experts meet in the Lithuanian capital to discuss a litany of rights abuses, lethal epidemics and social destruction caused by repressive drug policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, pockets of hope for drug reform are emerging across the region.
Indian Women Talk About Sex – in Cyberspace
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, India, Jun 11 (IPS) - When 30-year-old Rita Datta (not her real name) decided on a whim to take a computer literacy course, she fell through the metaphoric looking glass into a virtual reality where the most taboo subject in India was transformed into the most simple and natural topic of conversation: sex.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new record, according to data released Monday.
The Girl Who Couldn’t Herd Goats Now Saves Lives
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 11 (IPS) - When she was nine years old, Jane Meriwas, a Samburu from the Kipsing Plains in Kenya's Rift Valley region, was considered of no use by her father. After all, nine of his goats had been eaten by hyenas under her watch.
Senegal’s ‘Religious Schools’ Places of Exploitation
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR/BISSAU, Jun 11 (IPS) - In Dakar, urban commuters are familiar with kids as young as five years old begging on street corners at all hours of the day or the night, with torn, dirty clothes, collecting donations in an empty tin can.
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