News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1236
Young Computer Scientists in Cuba Short of Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Mar 26 (IPS) - Thousands of young Cubans are graduating in computer engineering, a sector the government decided to strengthen over the past decade. But their professional future is uncertain because of failures of organisation and of internet connectivity.
Tug-of-War Over Nuclear Future
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Mar 26 (IPS) - Pushed and pulled in opposite directions, the future of Japan's energy plans in the wake of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago is emerging as a fight between national economic advancement and what anti-nuke activists call "the lives of the people".
Electricity for All but Those the Kariba Dam Displaced
- Inter Press Service
LUSITU, Zambia, Mar 26 (IPS) - Indigenous people who were displaced from the Zambezi Valley almost six decades ago for the construction of the Kariba Dam say they have not benefited from the development they made way for.
Ranchers Try to Drive Tsimané Indians Off Their Land
- Inter Press Service
EL JATATAL, Bolivia, Mar 25 (IPS) - "We can't take any more abuse," Carmelo Tayo, the head of this small Tsimané indigenous village, says sadly. The community has lived for decades on land in Bolivia's Amazon jungle that outsiders are now trying to gain control of.
Looking for Answers after CAR Coup D'etat
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Zimbabwe, Mar 25 (IPS) - Days after the sudden fall of the Central African Republic to Séléka rebels, questions are being raised about the circumstances surrounding the hasty departure of President Francois Bozizé.
/UPDATE*/Boreholes, Boreholes Everywhere….And Not a Drop to Drink
- Inter Press Service
MBABANE, Mar 25 (IPS) - Every day for the last four years, 52-year-old Tintfombi Msibi has had to walk past the borehole in her village of Ekuphakameni, one of the driest rural villages in southern Swaziland, to a dirty stream two kilometres away to collect drinking water.
Naming Femicide to Fight Violence Against Women in Ecuador
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Mar 25 (IPS) - Ecuador hopes to move forward in the fight against violence against women by typifying femicide – gender-motivated killings – as a specific crime in the new penal code.
Zimbabwe’s Railroads Riding to Extinction
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 25 (IPS) - Zimbabwe's rail transport system may be nearing extinction if the government does not take drastic action to solve the series of operational challenges that have made commuter and goods train services rare here.
OP-ED: The BRICS and the Rising South
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Mar 25 (IPS) - On Tuesday, leaders of five large emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, known as the BRICS – will gather in Durban, South Africa to discuss harnessing their formidable resources on behalf of faster development progress in Africa and elsewhere.
India Playing Risky Games at Nuclear Parks
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 25 (IPS) - Bhagwat Singh Gohil frets for the future of his bountiful orchards in Mithi Virdi village in western Gujarat state's coastal district Bhavnagar. "After contending with droughts, rough seas and earthquakes we are staring at the possibility of a man-made disaster in the shape of a nuclear power park."
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