Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1322
/UPDATE*/ Uganda Oils Sales to China
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 21 (IPS) - Almost a decade since Uganda initiated negotiations with China for the favourable export of coffee beans to the Asian giant, it is struggling to create even trade relations with the world's second-biggest economy. But economic experts predict that the East African nation could close the gap through the promotion of agriculture and the eventual export of oil.
Second Chance For an African Green Revolution
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 21 (IPS) - As the world searches desperately for ways to boost food production by at least 70 percent by 2050 to feed an increasingly hungry planet, many are looking to Africa as the place where a large part of this potential can be realised, mainly for its huge portion of arable land.
Involuntary Sterilisation Threatens Rights of Disabled Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 (IPS) - In 1996, Maria Mamerita Mestanza Chavez, a 33-year-old Peruvian mother of seven, was threatened with imprisonment if she did not comply with the government policy of undergoing sterilisation. After suffering post-operative complications for which she was refused treatment, Chavez died nine days later.
Human Rights Education Shows Its Potential
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 20 (IPS) - The impact of human rights education, a rising star, is highlighted in a short documentary sponsored by United Nations experts and civil society.
As Aid Shrinks, U.N.’s Development Goals Under Threat
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 (IPS) - If the developing world fails to meet the targets set in the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – relating mostly to poverty, hunger, education, health care, gender empowerment and the environment – the primary blame for the failure would be on Western donors who have reneged on their aid commitments, according to a new report released here.
New Study Claims Popular Herbicide Causes Tumours in Rats
- Inter Press Service
South African Miners Begin Returning to Work
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Sep 20 (IPS) - Miners at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa have begun returning to work after agreeing a pay deal.*
Money For Salt: How The Country Of The Young Is Failing Its Elderly
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 20 (IPS) - Carolina Poalo strikes the dry earth over and over with her hoe, her frail body bent almost double. She is determined to begin planting. During the long, dry season in Mozambique, she and her two young grandchildren have eaten little but cassava leaves.
Uganda’s ‘Haunted’ Children Slow to Receive Medical Help
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 20 (IPS) - On a wet earth littered with fresh fruit from a large mango tree in Tumangu village in northern Uganda, Betty Olana (42) sits on a papyrus mat watching over four emaciated children infected by the mysterious nodding syndrome that leaves victims mentally challenged and nodding repeatedly when they see food or cold water.
Women Redefine Japan’s Work Culture
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Sep 20 (IPS) - Unhappy with her employer of five years, Chikako Harada, 34, quit three months ago and has just started on a new job with a large Internet sales company.
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