Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1193
Gezi Park Highlights Years of Destructive Urban Development
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jun 06 (IPS) - Few imagined that the symbolic act of standing in front of bulldozers in Istanbul's Gezi Park in an effort to block a development project near the city's central square would have caused the reaction it did.
Tackle Malnutrition Now
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 06 (IPS) - Between 2010 and 2012, 868 million people worldwide were deemed hungry by a conservative definition. This figure represents only a small fraction of the world's population whose health and lives are blighted by malnutrition.
Malnutrition Still Killing Three Million Children Under Five
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 06 (IPS) - Kevin's Carter's disturbing picture of the 1993 famine in Sudan won him a Pulitzer Prize.
Turkey's Excessive Neo-liberalism Threatens 'Peace at Home'
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Jun 05 (IPS) - "Peace at home, peace in the world" is the official motto of the Turkish Republic. Coined in 1931 by the republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, it implies a causal relationship, but the events this week in Istanbul and dozens of other cities of Turkey suggest that causality can work in reverse order, too.
Overcoming “Strategic Suspicion” - Goal of Obama-Xi Summit
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 05 (IPS) - This week's relatively informal and unscripted summit between the presidents of the United States and China on a private estate in southern California is being welcomed by most analysts here as a virtually unprecedented opportunity for each side to gain a better understanding of the strategic aims of the other.
Children Help Take Care of Havana Bay
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jun 05 (IPS) - On a piece of paper, Jennifer Rivas draws a beach, with little girls carrying bags of trash and signs that say "Let's take care of the environment." The 10-year-old is part of an educational programme, Friends of the Bay, that involves 322 schools in the Cuban capital.
French Town Makes Environment Everyone's Business
- Inter Press Service
BESANÇON, France, Jun 05 (IPS) - Christina E. is a mother of three who lives in an apartment building in an upscale neighbourhood in Paris. As someone who prepares meals daily, she wishes she had a place besides her household garbage bin where she could put biodegradable waste.
Shift in Latin America’s Approach to Drugs – from Security to Health Issue
- Inter Press Service
ANTIGUA, Guatemala, Jun 05 (IPS) - The drug problem should be tackled not as a security issue but as a public health question, with policies for "prevention, treatment and rehabilitation," delegations from the 34 countries participating in the 43rd General Assembly of the Organisation of American States agreed.
When the Health System Is Taken Ill
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Jun 05 (IPS) - Leaning on her daughter's arm in the post-operative ward of a hospital in Srinagar, capital of the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Raja Begam views the anti-infection pill she is being offered with a large dose of suspicion.
Isolated Amazon Indians Under Pressure in Ecuador
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Jun 05 (IPS) - Reports of another massacre in an isolated indigenous community in Ecuador's Amazon region cast doubt on the state's compliance with precautionary measures imposed in favour of uncontacted peoples in 2006 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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