Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1308
Experts Urge Focus on Microeconomics in Maghreb
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - A failure to focus on small-scale economics could be the most significant obstacle to stability in North Africa in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, economists, diplomats and development workers warned here on Friday.
Women Are the New 'Emerging Market'
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Empowering women in the business world is not only a smart political decision, but also makes good economic sense.
Brazil’s Gender Quota Law Off to Underwhelming Start
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 12 (IPS) - Brazil’s new law requiring that 30 percent of candidates must be women made a less than impressive debut in Sunday’s municipal elections, although female candidates for mayor made better headway than women running for town councils.
Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 12 (IPS) - When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from starving to death.
Cooperatives Summit Celebrates Power in Diversity
- Inter Press Service
QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Oct 12 (IPS) - The migratory seeds of cooperatives were sown and first thrived in Europe, but have since adapted to the climate of nations worldwide.
India Ignoring Coastal Biodiversity - NGOs
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Oct 12 (IPS) - Indian civil society organisations see in the 11th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), underway in this south Indian city, a rare opportunity to highlight alleged neglect of biodiversity along the country’s extensive coastal and marine areas.
Girls Determined to Fight Guns With Books
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Oct 12 (IPS) - Shazia Begum, one of three girls injured in the attack on the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban had sought to silence a very influential schoolgirl.
Progress in Reducing Hunger 'Tragically Slow'
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (IPS) - WASHINGTON, October 11, 2012 (IPS) – At least 20 countries are currently at either "alarming" or "extremely alarming" levels of hunger, according to new research released here on Thursday.
Oil Industry Moves to Block New U.S. Transparency Rules
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Lobby groups representing the oil industry filed a lawsuit in Washington court on Wednesday that seeks to halt the implementation of a new set of rules requiring U.S.-registered extractives companies to disclose all payments made to foreign governments.
Where Drugs Abound – and Syringes to Fight AIDS Are Scarce
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Oct 11 (IPS) - In northern Mexico, one of the areas in the country hit hardest by drug trafficking, there are not enough syringes to protect intravenous drug users from HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
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