Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1213
U.N. Finds “Little Appreciation” for Human Rights among U.S. Businesses
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 04 (IPS) - A United Nations expert group is warning that too many gaps remain in implementing new safeguards among businesses based in the United States, both in terms of their domestic and international operations, to ensure the protection of human rights of workers and communities affected by those operations.
Fragile States Show Signs of Progress Toward MDGs
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 03 (IPS) - Twenty of the world's most fragile states, including those currently affected by conflict, have achieved one or more of the development targets outlined under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Bank said this week.
Few Meaningful Changes in Wake of Dhaka Factory Collapse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 03 (IPS) - Worker advocacy groups here are calling on some of the most high-profile U.S.-based clothing companies to make drastic reforms to their international labour practices in the wake of the factory collapse that killed more than 420 workers in Dhaka last week.
U.N. Harnesses Social Media to Reach Outside World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 03 (IPS) - As the world continues to turn digital, so does the United Nations - slowly but steadily.
Beefing Up Disaster Response in Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, May 03 (IPS) - Nicaragua, which is prone to natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding, is confronting them with prevention measures and community drills and training in high-risk areas.
Rohingyas At Home and Nowhere
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, May 03 (IPS) - Rendered the nowhere people in their own homeland, thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing inhuman living conditions, lack of humanitarian aid and rising sectarian tensions in their country. And the very state that is supposed to protect them now stands accused of ‘ethnic cleansing'.
Hamas ‘Talibanising’ Gaza
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, May 03 (IPS) - The Islamist resistance group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is being accused by its Palestinian Authority (PA) rivals in the West Bank of Talibanising Gaza and turning the coastal territory into a new Muslim Brotherhood neighbourhood.
Preserving the Soil and Reaping Greater Harvests
- Inter Press Service
MOROGORO, Tanzania, May 03 (IPS) - Smallholder farmer Peter Mcharo, from Morogoro Region in eastern Tanzania, has a reason to smile. His fields are full of green, healthy maize plants, he has richer soil and he spends less time farming now than he did two years ago.
U.S. Links Pesticides to Honey Bee Deaths, but Resists Ban
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 03 (IPS) - A major study by the U.S. government's environment and agriculture agencies has suggested a strong link between the use of certain pesticides and the widespread deaths that have afflicted honey bee populations around the world in recent years.
Outbreak of Violence Imminent on Brazilian Amazon Estate
- Inter Press Service
MARABÁ, Brazil, May 02 (IPS) - A fresh outbreak of violence between large landowners and landless peasants is looming in the Amazonian state of Pará, in northern Brazil.
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