Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1337
Riding Towards Sustainable Development, on Bamboo
- Inter Press Service
KUMASI, Ghana, Aug 23 (IPS) - In Ghana, a country burgeoning with traffic congestion, increasing economic growth, and a stark urban-rural divide, making frames of bicycles out of bamboo could be the key to promoting sustainable development. It also makes stronger, longer-lasting bikes.
Q&A: “The Trend in the Western World Is the Dissolution of Cities”
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 23 (IPS) - The prevailing trend in much of “the Western capitalist world is the destruction and dissolution of cities,” which represents a threaten to democracy, “because the city is the place where public freedoms were born,” warns urban planner Jordi Borja in an interview with Tierramérica*.
Getting a Grip on Food Security in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Aug 23 (IPS) - The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are strengthening the city's food security while demonstrating how to maximise sustainable use of agricultural land.
Shelters for Undocumented Migrants under Threat in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 23 (IPS) - Two years after the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico, shelters for undocumented migrants are facing challenges and threats, due to the rise in the number of people seeking assistance, the lack of solidarity on the part of local communities, pressure from organised crime, and a lack of adequate public policies addressing the problem of migration.
UZBEKISTAN AND KYRGYZSTAN: Smugglers Own the Night
- Inter Press Service
, Aug 22 (IPS) - During the day, when Uzbek border guards patrol its streets, Mingdon is a sleepy Ferghana Valley town. But after night falls, Mingdon, a hamlet of 10,000 on Uzbekistan’s frontier with Kyrgyzstan, turns into a smugglers’ paradise.
U.S. Passes New Rules Regulating Conflict Minerals
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (IPS) - After a 16-month delay, a U.S. government regulator charged with investment oversight has voted on rules that will now govern U.S.-listed companies operating in the extractive industry as well as those that use minerals whose sale may fuel violence in other countries, particularly in central Africa.
Macro Privatisations Bring Micro Benefits to Guatemalans
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 22 (IPS) - The suspension of the privatisation of a port company unleashed debate in Guatemala about the countless concessions granted to foreign companies in areas like oil, mining, railways and energy, where corporate interests are seen as prevailing over the common good.
Cameroonian Athletes Braving the Odds
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Aug 22 (IPS) - Victorine Fomum is Cameroon’s 2005 African table tennis champion. She often used to “train without rackets, without balls, without appropriate clothing and without good tables.” But despite this, she won gold at the 2005 African Nations Championship. And as a reward for her achievement the government handed her a cheque – for 25 dollars.
Pregnant Nicaraguan Girls Forced to Become Mothers
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Aug 22 (IPS) - Carla lost everything when she got pregnant at the age of 13: her first year of secondary school, her family, her boyfriend, and her happiness. She spent a year panhandling on the streets of the Nicaraguan capital before she was taken in by a shelter for young mothers.
Argentine Locals Want Power Transformers Out of Neighborhoods
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 21 (IPS) - Scientific uncertainty about the health impacts of electromagnetic fields is fueling worries among people in the Argentine capital who are demanding that energy power transformers be located far from their neighborhoods.
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