News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1242
Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 15 (IPS) - Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies at the national level, they say.
Local Communities Forced to Pay Salaries of DRC Army and Rebels
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, Mar 15 (IPS) - On the way to his fields, Denise Mambo, a resident of Kitshanga, North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, stops at a rope laid across his path.
Hints of Changes to Come at Vatican
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 15 (IPS) - No one would expect a Pope elected by an extremely conservative conclave to implement revolutionary reforms within the Catholic Church. Still, many see in the newly elected Pope Francis some signs of change.
Peace Laureate Obama Urged to Back Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (IPS) - Eighteen Nobel Peace Prize recipients called Thursday for President Barack Obama to take a leadership role in supporting a "historic" internationally binding agreement that would regulate the global arms trade, including instituting a strict ban on arms sales to states involved in egregious human rights abuses.
Q&A: Rise of South "Unprecedented in Speed and Scale"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (IPS) - The world's 132 developing nations, largely part of the global South, are ascending at a pace "unprecedented in its speed and scale", according to the latest Human Development Report (HDR) released Thursday by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP).
Green Taxes Seek a Spot in Mexico’s Reform Bill
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Mar 14 (IPS) - As the Mexican government prepares a broad tax reform bill, experts and activists see it as an opportunity to include new "green taxes" aimed at raising funds for curbing pollution.
Latin America Won’t Lose Cheap Oil from Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 14 (IPS) - Venezuela will keep in place the regional energy integration policies promoted by the late president Hugo Chávez if he is succeeded by acting president Nicolás Maduro, experts on regional relations told IPS.
Pak-Iran Pipeline Carries Energy and Defiance
- Inter Press Service
, Mar 14 (IPS) - After almost two decades of non-stop negotiations, and two years of intense U.S. opposition, the much-delayed and controversial 7.5 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan pipeline is well on its track to full operation in the next 15 months.
Cameroonian Farmers Find Justice in Fair Fruit
- Inter Press Service
DOUALA, Cameroon, Mar 14 (IPS) - The fruit farmers in Njombe, a small town in the coastal Littoral Region of Cameroon, learned a life lesson about "making lemonade out of lemons" - or rather "dried fruit out of fruit" when their land was taken from them by the government and leased to an international farming company.
Afghanistan Faces “Massive Economic Constriction” after U.S. Withdrawal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (IPS) - Next year's drawdown of U.S. forces and decline in U.S. aid will leave in its wake an Afghan political system lacking legitimacy and stability, according to interviews with Afghanistan experts, news reports and congressional studies.
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