Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1329
Microfinance Brings Hope to Myanmar’s Farmers
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Sep 10 (IPS) - After decades of grinding poverty under successive military dictatorships, Myanmar’s rice farmers have a chance at a better future through rural reforms ushered in by the country’s quasi-civilian government. Microfinance is at the root of it.
Losing Land, and Finding a Roof
- Inter Press Service
DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, Occupied West Bank, Sep 09 (IPS) - Asmahan Ramadan and her family have taken thousands of photos on the rooftop of their home. Not of themselves, or of the overcrowded Dheisheh refugee camp they see every day.
Kyoto Protocol May End With the Year
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Sep 09 (IPS) - As government negotiators from the world’s poorest countries ended a round of United Nations climate change talks in the Thai capital, they sounded a grave note about what appears imminent when they assemble in November in Doha – the reading of the last rites of the Kyoto Protocol.
Gaza Economy Tailored to Fail
- Inter Press Service
JABALIYA, Gaza, Sep 08 (IPS) - "Gaza's economy is expected to grow modestly and people will likely still be worse off in 2015 compared to the mid-1990s," reads a press release announcing the United Nations' August 2012 report, ‘Gaza in 2020 – A Liveable Place?’
Getting Into the Business of Environment
- Inter Press Service
JEJU, South Korea, Sep 08 (IPS) - Regulations that stand in the way of conservation programmes lower their likely success, experts warned at the World Conservation Congress of the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Jeju, South Korea.
Fresh Research on HIV Urges New Approach to Gay Men
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 07 (IPS) - Unlike the flattening or even declining rates of HIV infection among nearly all other communities, the epidemic among gay men globally is rapidly expanding.
Justice a Long Way Off for Dead Miners
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 07 (IPS) - The South African Police Service members who were involved in a bloodbath with striking workers at the Marikana mine in North West Province could face murder charges, sources close to the investigation told IPS.
Environment Congress Looks First at the Island It’s Meeting On
- Inter Press Service
JEJU, South Korea, Sep 07 (IPS) - Before business could get under way, the controversy had to be dealt with. That appeared to be the strategy of the South Korean government just before the opening of the high profile International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress here on Thursday.
Caribbean Seeks Leg Up from Economic Doldrums
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Sep 06 (IPS) - As governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) that groups seven countries, Sir Dwight Venner is all too aware of the low economic growth, debt and financial instability confronting the wider Caribbean.
Informal Sector Work Survives Economic Boom in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 06 (IPS) - Behind “yerba mate”, a caffeinated herbal brew that is popular in Argentina and neighbouring countries, lies a shameful reality: the dismal labour and living conditions of the workers who harvest the leaves of the bush used to make the infusion.
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