Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1194
In Besieged Refugee Camp, Syrian Medics Struggle to Provide
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jun 05 (IPS) - It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was critically wounded in the head, and her father rushed her to the Palestine Hospital, blood pouring from the laceration.
Quantitative Easing: Impact on Emerging and Developing Economies
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Jun 05 (IPS) - The global economy is awash with successive waves of liquidity generated over the past few years by the four most advanced economies, viz., the United States, the European Union, (EU), Japan and the United Kingdom, known as the G4. This liquidity has taken the form of "quantitative easing" (QE).
Art Confronts Maldives' Climate Change Controversy
- Inter Press Service
VENICE, Jun 05 (IPS) - On the quay leading to the Arsenale exhibition complex, a block of ice melts in a rare blast of spring warmth. Elsewhere in the city, coconuts were bob on the choppy waters of the canals during the opening week of the 55th Venice Biennale.
Skyscrapers, Land Rovers in One of World’s Poorest Countries
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Jun 05 (IPS) - Lined up along the streets of central Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, are expensive, European-style bars and restaurants with sophisticated names like Café Continental, Nautilus, 1908 and Mundos.
Landgrabbing to Provide Horn of Africa with Electricity
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Jun 05 (IPS) - Ethiopia's long-term hydropower strategy is proving to be both a source of economic sustenance and contention. In becoming Africa's leading power exporter through the construction of a series of dams across the country, Ethiopia could threaten the lives of millions who depend on the Nile River's waters.
For First Time, U.S. to Lease Offshore Wind Blocks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 04 (IPS) - The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it would be going forward with long-discussed plans to auction federal leases off the Atlantic Ocean coast for the development of offshore wind energy.
Palestinian Child Labourers Face Grim Future
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Jun 04 (IPS) - Hazem Maher, 16, from Hebron in the southern West Bank, works a backbreaking 12-hour day in the fruit and vegetable market in the city of El Bireh, next to Ramallah. He earns just over 15 dollars a day as a porter.
Africa Leading the New Patterns of Growth
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Jun 04 (IPS) - The old theories governing the way that countries produce and trade are being replaced. The pattern of trade is being transformed by increasingly sophisticated technology and innovations in transportation; and the topography of actors is shifting to reflect new poles of growth.
Despite Peace Talks, Forced Displacement Still Climbing in Colombia
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Jun 04 (IPS) - Drugs and arms traffickers are muscling in on Colombia's Pacific coastal region, forcibly displacing local people, according to a new report by the Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES).
Ecuador’s Fragile Páramo Ecosystem Threatened by Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Jun 04 (IPS) - The "páramos" or high plateaus of Ecuador, a crucial source of water, are showing signs of extreme fragility and a troubling loss of capacity to conserve this vital resource and sustain the survival of numerous species found nowhere else on earth.
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