Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1331
Thousands of Senegalese Producers Living off Market Gardening
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Sep 04 (IPS) - Thousands of farmers are earning a living growing fruit and vegetables in the Niayes, a strip of fertile land running north along Senegal's western coastline from the outskirts of the capital, Dakar. But land speculation threatens the future of this market gardening.
Ruling Against Thermoelectric Plant Sparks Debate
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Sep 04 (IPS) - A Chilean Supreme Court decision ordering a halt to the construction of the Castilla thermoelectric power plant has sparked a debate over the country’s energy security.
How to Get People to Make More Babies in Singapore
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Sep 04 (IPS) - How to get Singaporeans to have more babies has become a major part of the debate about this country’s future, and the government is encouraging people to speak out on the issue.
Nearer the Church, Farther From MDGs
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Sep 04 (IPS) - When Philippines President Benigno Aquino III delivered his annual state of the union address in July, he appealed to the country’s lawmakers to break a deadlock on progressive birth control laws in this predominantly Catholic nation.
Small Step to Set Up the Biggest Marine Park
- Inter Press Service
AVARUA, Cook Islands, Sep 04 (IPS) - The world’s largest marine park is due to be launched in the Cook Islands located in the Pacific Ocean about 3,000 km from New Zealand. Covering an area of almost a million square kilometres, the park will be three times the size of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and twice as large as the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean that topped the list of marine protected areas (MPAs) for two years.
Capitalising on Natural Disasters in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 03 (IPS) - In a country as vulnerable to natural disasters as Guatemala, a “state of public calamity” is frequently declared – to the joy of contractors, which find a good opportunity to line their pockets.
Mystery Surrounds Reported Massacre of Yanomami Village
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Sep 03 (IPS) - Up to 80 Yanomami men, women and children in a remote community in the Amazon jungle in southern Venezuela were reportedly killed in early July by wildcat gold miners from Brazil, according to indigenous organisations.
Egyptian Hospitals Under Attack as Patients Lose Patience
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 03 (IPS) - The emergency room of Mansoura International Hospital is closed, a lock and chain securing its entrance. Ambulances carrying stroke and burn victims are ordered to go elsewhere.
Gun Violence a Growing Concern in Papua New Guinea
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Sep 03 (IPS) - In Papua New Guinea, the largest island nation in Melanesia in the southwest Pacific, where more than 60 percent of major crimes involve guns, a burgeoning illegal arms trade is associated with lack of employment growth and low human security, with vulnerable communities suffering the consequences.
Cuban Women Face Challenges of Self-Employment
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 03 (IPS) - Beatriz Lemes took her time deciding, and finally agreed “apprehensively” to take the job of heading a state-run company that is making the transition to financial autonomy, a system that is spreading throughout Cuba and is testing women’s capacities, among other things.
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