Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1214
Waste Pickers in Colombia Earn Formal Recognition
- Inter Press Service
, May 02 (IPS) - Nora Padilla, one of the six winners of this year's Goldman environmental prize, dedicates her days to organising informal recyclers in the Colombian capital, where the city's eight million inhabitants are just now reluctantly starting to classify their garbage at source.
Ecuador’s Indigenous People Still Waiting to Be Consulted
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, May 02 (IPS) - The Constitution of Ecuador adopted in 2008 establishes a broad range of rights for indigenous peoples and nationalities, including the right to prior consultation, which gives them the opportunity to influence decisions that affect their lives.
May Day Marchers Spread Their Wings
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 02 (IPS) - More than 1,000 people marched under the brilliant San Francisco sun on May Day. Their signs, such as "Work in America/Live in America/Dream in America. Immigration reform now," their songs, chants and speeches wove together the twin themes of the day: worker justice and immigrant justice.
Migrants Tune in to Community Support
- Inter Press Service
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, May 02 (IPS) - At the age of 23, Gao travelled to Thailand to escape intense fighting in his native Shan State in the east of Myanmar (Burma) and possible recruitment into the Shah army.
From Rags to Penury
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 01 (IPS) - India's planners worry about ‘jobless growth', but perhaps nothing illustrates this phenomenon better than a policy of handing over the collection and disposal of the capital's refuse to large private corporations, leaving close to 50,000 ragpickers unemployed.
Giving Women in Zimbabwe’s Informal Sector Rights
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 01 (IPS) - Mollin Siyanda, 46, a single mother of three from Harare's low-income suburb of Hatcliffe, is scared of being arrested by the council police as she sells fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothes on the pavement of the city centre without a permit.
Japan’s Aid Programme Takes a Selfish Turn
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, May 01 (IPS) - As Japan slips from its former top spot as the world's biggest donor, experts here are worried about long-term changes in the country's development assistance programme, which has played a crucial role in global poverty reduction efforts.
Taliban Show Patients No Mercy
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, May 01 (IPS) - Akbar Shah was sitting with his sick wife in the gynaecology ward of the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Bajaur Agency, a division of northern Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), when a bomb ripped through the facility, scattering patients, doctors and medical supplies.
Women Forge a Space for Themselves in Latin American Labour Movement
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Apr 30 (IPS) - Misogyny is the word on the lips of women trade unionists in Latin America when asked what they have had to fight against to win spaces in the leadership bodies of labour unions in the region.
WTO, Dubious Prize for a Latin American?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 30 (IPS) - The complicated challenge of invigorating the debilitated World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the multilateral trade system that it governs will fall, for the next four years and for the first time ever, to a Latin American.
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