Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1332
Debate on Asbestos Safety Reaches Brazil’s Supreme Court
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 03 (IPS) - Brazil’s Supreme Court is assessing the level of risk posed by asbestos to human health, while industry defends its use under controlled conditions, and associations of people with asbestos-related diseases argue that it should not be used under any circumstances, even with regulations.
A Green Gold Mine in the Heart of the DRC Capital
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Sep 03 (IPS) - A disused cemetery in the heart of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been transformed into a profitable urban garden. Relying on compost they make themselves on the site, a small group of gardeners are enjoying plentiful returns.
Pacific Nations Women Promised a Better Deal
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Sep 03 (IPS) - Leaders of 15 Pacific Island nations have pledged to remove barriers to women’s economic empowerment, end violence against women and pave the way for their increased political representation, at the conclusion of the 43rd Pacific Islands Forum in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, last week. The meeting was also attended by the Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet.
AIDS Spreading Fast Across East Europe
- Inter Press Service
KIEV, Sep 03 (IPS) - Despite pledges from governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia to fight HIV/AIDS – one of the eight Millennium Development Goals – the region has the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic.
Women Take up Care of Tohoku Elders
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Sep 02 (IPS) - Yumiko Yonekura, who survived last year’s massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Tohoku in northeast Japan, has just launched ‘Hot Care Kesenuma’, a welfare company that provides special care for feeble elders in the affected region.
‘Super’ Cabinet Seeks to Save Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, Sep 01 (IPS) - After months of speculation and rumours, President Thein Sein of Myanmar (earlier Burma) has created a “super” cabinet to try to salvage his besieged administration – riven with divisions and inertia. Currently he is embroiled in a constitutional crisis – a battle for power between the president and the parliament – that threatens to paralyse the government until it is resolved. This has left the president increasingly isolated, with only the army offering concrete support.
Men and Women Farming Together Can Eradicate Hunger
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 01 (IPS) - Three years ago, the residents of the semi-arid Yatta district in Kenya’s Eastern Province lived on food aid due to dwindling crops of maize that could not thrive because of the decreased rainfall in the area.
That was until a local bishop, trying to find ways to prevent mothers from forcing their teenage daughters into prostitution, changed everything.
Women Spend 40 Billion Hours Collecting Water
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 31 (IPS) - As the weeklong international conference on water concluded Friday, it was left to one of the keynote speakers from the United Nations to focus on a much neglected perspective on water and food security: the role of women.
Q&A: “Another Chile Is Possible, with Greater Democracy and Social Rights”
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 31 (IPS) - It is essential for young people in Chile to assume a more active role in politics, especially in two key electoral processes: the municipal elections in October and the legislative and presidential vote in 2013, says student leader Camila Vallejo, who has not ruled out running for a seat in parliament herself.
PACIFIC ISLANDS: Marine Protected Areas Bolster Conservation Efforts
- Inter Press Service
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands, Aug 31 (IPS) - The world's smallest island nations wield more power than their sizes would suggest, with millions of square kilometres in their domains, said leaders of Pacific Island nations gathered at a special forum here in the Cook Islands.
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