Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1336
Gangs and Government Put Their Cards on the Table in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Aug 25 (IPS) - The two main youth gangs in El Salvador and the government have exchanged the main points they would like to discuss in talks aimed at bringing to an end to two decades of spiraling criminal violence. But the media, legislators and the public at large remain hostile to the possible start of negotiations.
“Operation No Back Way to Europe” Keeps Young Farmers at Home in Gambia
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Aug 24 (IPS) - Mohamed Ceesay, a 20-year-old farmer from the Central River Region in the Gambia, is a high school dropout. But thanks to an initiative to discourage local youths from emigrating to Europe, he earns almost half the salary of a government minister from his rice harvest.
Why Are Hindus from Pakistan Crossing Over to India?
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Aug 24 (IPS) - Narain Das, a cloth merchant from Jacobabad in northern Pakistan, blesses his lucky stars that he has three sons, aged 18, 16 and 12. “If they were daughters, I, too, would seriously be thinking of migrating from here,” he reflects on the lack of protection his community faces.
Marketing in the Mud Along the Dominican Border
- Inter Press Service
JIMANÍ, Dominican Republic, Aug 24 (IPS) - Getting around on market day along the muddy border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is almost impossible for those unfamiliar with the art of dodging the trucks, motorcycles and bicycles swerving amidst the messy piles of products scattered all over, and weaving among the hundreds of people coming and going between the two countries.
“The Truth is That All Problems Have Solutions” – Even Climate Change in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 24 (IPS) - Eight years ago Kenbesh Mengesha earned an uncertain income collecting firewood from local government forests and selling them to her fellow slum-dwellers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She would earn on average about 50 cents a day, if she was lucky.
Brazil Perfects Monitoring of Amazon Carbon Emissions
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 24 (IPS) - A new system to calculate the amount of greenhouse gases generated by deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jungle region has come at a good time for assessing the effects of the reform of the country’s forest code.
Activists Protest Shell's Arctic Oil-Drilling Plans
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (IPS) - By mid-September, the Royal Dutch Shell Oil (Shell) group hopes to begin exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of northern Alaska, provided it can secure federal permission from the U.S. government and overcome other logistical obstacles. But a prominent environmental group warns that drilling will do "irreparable damage" to the area.
‘World’s Richest’ Tag Not So Rosy for Average Citizen in Singapore
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Aug 23 (IPS) - Singapore was recently ranked as the world’s richest country. But there is much scepticism about such rankings among average citizens here.
With Egyptian Loan Request, Some Fear Loss of Revolution's Gains
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (IPS) - After 18 months of talks, on Wednesday Egypt's government formally requested a 4.8-billion-dollar loan from the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF), hoping to stabilise an economy that has continued to badly stutter in the aftermath of the popular uprising that led to the downfall of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Activists Alarmed at Release of Dorothy Stang’s Murderer
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 23 (IPS) - The release from prison of the Brazilian rancher found guilty of ordering the 2005 murder of U.S.-born rainforest activist and nun Dorothy Stang has alarmed human rights defenders, who warn that it could set a dangerous precedent in other cases involving land disputes and the rights of poor farmers.
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