Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1197
Obama Urged to Sign Arms Trade Treaty Immediately
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 31 (IPS) - Advocacy groups here are stepping up a campaign to pressure President Barack Obama to quickly sign on to a new United Nations treaty aimed at regulating, for the first time, the international small-arms trade.
Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, May 31 (IPS) - Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík.
U.S. Hungry Face Major Cuts in Food Aid
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31 (IPS) - The U.S. Congress is on the brink of making billions of dollars in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, which provides direct benefits to individuals and families in poverty.
OP-ED: Incessant Killing of Elephants is Killing Africa’s Future
- Inter Press Service
BONN, May 31 (IPS) - More civil unrest in Africa, another coup d'état, more reports of child soldiers in the front line, involvement of foreign troops, the poorest of the poor losing what little they have – and all the while the proceeds of a country's wealth are diverted from much-needed social and economic development to financing death and destruction.
Warlords and Vague Constitution to Blame for Renegade Somali State
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, May 31 (IPS) - Attempts by clan elders and militia commanders in southern Somalia to form an autonomous state, without the consent of the central government but with the apparent backing of foreign countries, remains a dangerous, destabilising element in the region, say analysts.
Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to kill her for exposing the practice of female genital mutilation in her home country last year.
U.N. Panel Projects a Poverty-Free World by 2030
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (IPS) - A U.N.-commissioned high-level panel of eminent persons, led by three world leaders, has moved the goal posts for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger: from the current 2015 deadline to a new targeted date of 2030.
Afghan Media Brace for Financial Drought
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 31 (IPS) - As Afghanistan prepares for the 2014 withdrawal of foreign forces that have occupied this country for over a decade, investors are already beginning to bid a hasty retreat amid rumours that "chaos" and civil war will replace NATO's boots on the ground late next year.
U.S. Urged to Reject Genetically Engineered Trees
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 30 (IPS) - Consumer advocates and environmentalists this week are taking advantage of an industry conference to highlight concerns over the U.S. government's pending approval of a genetically modified eucalyptus tree.
Native People More Than Just Park Rangers
- Inter Press Service
DARWIN, Australia, May 30 (IPS) - Some good-byes can actually mean the start of a long road working together. That was how it felt at the end of the World Indigenous Network (WIN) conference in this northern Australian city.
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