Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1330
Hazaras in Pakistan Caught Between Persecution and the High Seas
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Sep 06 (IPS) - It will be no less than a miracle if Nadir Ali makes it to Australia, where he planned to seek asylum. But with each passing day, since his boat went missing over two months ago, hopes are dimming.
Climate Adaptation Daunts Karachi’s Planners
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Sep 06 (IPS) - Climate proofing this bustling port city is a daunting task for planners who must consider factors ranging from proneness to flooding and administrative malaise to the fact that 60 percent of its 18 million people live in slums.
U.S. Company Accused of Greenwashing Cameroon ‘Land-Grab’
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 06 (IPS) - Environment groups are accusing a New York-based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, of going forward with plans for a 73,000-hectare palm-oil plantation and refinery in southwest Cameroon despite a lack of government authorisation, two court injunctions, and in the face of significant community opposition.
Auntie Hillary Visits Cook Islands Hoping to Put China on Sidelines
- Inter Press Service
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, Sep 06 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was greeted as celebrity-royalty by Cook Islanders during an unprecedented visit at the end of last week to attend a regional meeting of Pacific island nations here.
U.S. Points to 'Gross Negligence' by BP
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Sep 05 (IPS) - The U.S. justice department is blaming BP PLC for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it calls "gross negligence and willful misconduct".
Water in DRC More Often Cause of Death than Source of Life
- Inter Press Service
MBUJI MAYI, DR Congo, Sep 05 (IPS) - Despite the desperate lack of access to water for domestic use in Mwene Ditu, in the central Democratic Republic of Congo, Dieudonné Ilunga spent a good part of July blocking up residents' wells.
Indigenous Consultations in Peru to Debut in Amazon Oil Region
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 05 (IPS) - Peru will debut a new mechanism for prior consultation with indigenous peoples by seeking their approval for a new stage of oil drilling operations in the infamous Lot 1AB in the northeastern Amazon region of Loreto.
Fighting Hunger - Arresting South Sudan’s Idle Youth
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Sep 05 (IPS) - Police in South Sudan have begun press-ganging every "idle" youth they can find to provide labour on police farms. The State Police Commissioner in Northern Bahr al Gazal state says young men cannot be left to drink tea and play cards all day while food insecurity threatens the country.
U.S. Ready to Cut Egypt's Debt
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 05 (IPS) - As reports surfaced Tuesday that U.S. negotiators, in Cairo for the past week, are closing in on an agreement to cut a billion dollars from Egypt’s bilateral debt, the State Department here announced that a record-sized U.S. business delegation would travel to Egypt later this week.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Universities - Shedding a Legacy of Violence and Corruption
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Sep 04 (IPS) - Yacouba Coulibaly was pursuing a doctorate in education at Cocody University in Abidjan before Côte d’Ivoire’s post-election violence started in 2010. But his classes were routinely disrupted by armed members of a powerful student federation that wished to hold meetings instead.
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