Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1227
Prolonging the Life of the World’s Biggest Copper Mine
- Inter Press Service
RANCAGUA, Chile, Apr 10 (IPS) - El Teniente, the world's largest underground copper mine, has already been in operation since 1905, but the state-owned National Copper Corporation of Chile (CODELCO) wants to keep it running for another 50 years.
EU Calls for New Plans Past the MDGs
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 10 (IPS) - The European Commission has unveiled a blueprint for global development aid and called on world leaders to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with an international aid framework based on sustainable and inclusive development tackling poverty at its roots.
Youth Find a Future in Food Production
- Inter Press Service
MUNDA, Solomon Islands, Apr 10 (IPS) - With little more than a bush knife and an axe between them, a group of young boys between the ages of nine and 18 years have taken food security into their own hands. In Kindu, a community of 5,000 people in the coastal urban area of Munda in the Solomon Islands, these boys, who have been abandoned by their parents, have transformed their lives by establishing a cooperatively run farm.
Militarised Island Seeks Makeover
- Inter Press Service
GINOWAN, Japan, Apr 10 (IPS) - The island of Okinawa has long been known as the base camp for a majority of the United States' 50,000 troops in Japan. But now, against the backdrop of escalating nuclear threats from North Korea, local leaders are pushing hard to promote this island – the largest of 60 that comprise Japan's southern prefecture – and its surrounding islets as a lucrative site for commercial enterprises.
Access to Sanitation Still a Luxury for the Very Few
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Apr 10 (IPS) - About 20 communities in Tillabéri, west Niger, have been declared open defecation-free zones as across the country, very few people have access to proper sanitation.
Winter Athletes Call for Action on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - After another winter of erratic and disappointing snowfall, 75 of the U.S.'s top professional winter athletes are calling on President Barack Obama to take stronger measures to curb climate change.
U.S. Global Health Cuts Threaten Gains on Lethal Diseases
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - A U.S.-based civil society coalition is calling on Congress and President Barack Obama's administration to keep spending on global health aid at current levels, warning that recent budget cuts risk a dangerous backslide in health and development gains achieved over the past three decades.
“20th Century Agriculture, 19th Century Logistics” in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 09 (IPS) - Edson Godinho, a truck driver with 35 years' experience, was lucky this time. When he reached the southeastern port of Santos in early April, the line of waiting trucks was much shorter than it had been earlier, so he only had to wait 12 hours to unload his soybeans.
The Search for Swaziland’s TB-Infected Mine Workers
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Apr 09 (IPS) - For more than a decade after 1992, when Swazi gold miner Benson Maseko, 50, fell ill with chest pains and a nagging cough, he did not seek treatment.
Daring Woman Enters the Contest
- Inter Press Service
BAJAUR AGENCY, Pakistan, Apr 09 (IPS) - "My sole motive is to serve my people, especially women who have had no role in politics so far. I feel we can make progress only by bringing in women into mainstream politics."
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