Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1313
Cooperatives Champion Balance Between People and Profit
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Canada, Oct 05 (IPS) - The banner year for the global cooperative movement is winding down into its last months, but its leaders have echoed a resounding message: cooperatives, a values-based business model, can usher a transition to a more socially responsible economy.
Culling or Conservation?
- Inter Press Service
PORT BLAIR, India, Oct 05 (IPS) - Midway through Wildlife Week in India, celebrations have been marred by news that 29.8 kilogrammes of ivory, worth 336,800 dollars, had been seized on the Andaman Trunk Road.
Small Farmers in West Africa Need Support - Despite Good Rains
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 05 (IPS) - Despite an abundance of rain, promising good harvests for the current growing season, small-scale farmers and non-governmental organisations are calling for support to smallholders to be maintained with a view to eradicating food insecurity in Africa’s Sahel region.
Abused Children Face Long Wait for Justice
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Oct 05 (IPS) - In 2011, 1,463 cases of sexual exploitation of children were reported to the Sri Lankan Police, who found every single complaint to be genuine and opened investigations.
Venezuela Votes…and Latin America Catches a Cold
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Oct 04 (IPS) - Sunday’s elections in Venezuela will determine whether the era of President Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution will continue or come to an end. The result will have an impact not only on this country but on the rest of Latin America.
Hour Grows Late to Act on Climate Change, Caribbean Warns
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 04 (IPS) - Their speeches did not grab international headlines like that delivered by U.S. President Barack Obama, nor did other delegates walk out as they spoke, as was the case for Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Q&A: “The Children Take on an Artist’s Lovely Identity, from a Young Age”
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Oct 04 (IPS) - Venezuela’s youth symphony orchestras that have enamoured audiences on several continents are a social programme aimed at fighting poverty and marginalisation, more than an artistic endeavour, says the founder of the initiative, José Antonio Abreu.
Farming in Bangladesh Stays Afloat – Literally
- Inter Press Service
BAIKANTAPUR, Bangladesh, Oct 04 (IPS) - With the rains over Gopalganj district intensifying each year and much of Baikantapur village permanently waterlogged, Bijoy Kumar Sen had little choice but to abandon traditional rice farming and grow vegetables on bairas – floating islands built of straw and aquatic plants.
UZBEKISTAN-TAJIKISTAN: Souring Political Relations Damaging Human Ties
- Inter Press Service
DUSHANBE, Oct 04 (IPS) - This summer, a 32-year-old musician with Uzbek citizenship was visiting her mother in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For the last decade, the musician has lived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe with her husband, an ethnic Uzbek, and their 10-year-old daughter.
Q&A: ‘Mismatch Between Commitments and Action on Biodiversity’
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Oct 04 (IPS) - The eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 11 CBD) approaches amidst a hailstorm of public protest against the ‘tragedy of the commons’ – the rapid loss of biodiversity in forests, oceans and indigenous community farmlands.
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