Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1348
Native Canadians Fear Mining Boom in "Ring of Fire"
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Jul 30 (IPS) - With accusations that Canadian resource companies and government officials are disregarding the need for indigenous consent in development projects, First Nations leaders have lashed out by approving a resolution calling for a moratorium on mining development in the so-called Ring of Fire until proper consultation begins.
Profiting from Sustainable Forests on Communal Land in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
AMANALCO, Mexico, Jul 30 (IPS) - Mario Guzmán plans to start cutting down trees again in August and September, the last months of the rainy season. “Now the roads are impassable, and the trucks can’t get in to haul out the timber,” the Mexican farmer, whose community is sustainably managing its forests, told IPS.
Caribbean Sees Progress on HIV/AIDS, Fears Funding Cuts
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 30 (IPS) - Ian McKnight, executive director of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVCC), used one word - “tokenistic” - to sum up his perspective on the 19th International AIDS Conference that ended here over the weekend.
Private Sector Debt Gnawing at Developing Countries
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jul 30 (IPS) - Twelve years after a global campaign successfully advocated the cancellation of some of the world’s poorest countries’ public debt, developing economies are again facing unsustainable debt burdens. Only this time, it is the private sector’s debt in developing economies that is inflating dangerously.
Breaking the Ghostly Silence on Rape
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 30 (IPS) - It was the ghostly silence that struck him hardest as he walked through the Colombo suburb of Kirulapone the day after the lifeless body of a six-year-old girl had been discovered floating in a filthy canal, Kumar de Silva, a well-known local media personality, told IPS.
Lebanon Heading for Failed State Status?
- Inter Press Service
BEIRUT, Jul 30 (IPS) - Every day Lebanon is being plunged further into a state of general insecurity, as chaos from the war in Syria seeps across the border.
Trading Across the Line of Control
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Jul 30 (IPS) - As part of recent confidence building measures aimed at minimising tensions between India and Pakistan, which arose largely due to conflicting claims over Kashmir, the two countries have decided to make the Valley an economic bridge, rather than a bone of contention.
Pouring Edible Oil on Pakistan’s Troubled Areas
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) -
A makeshift girls' school in Bajaur. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSPESHAWAR, Jul 28 2012 (IPS) -Taking turns to lug a heavy can of edible oil, Mushtari and Sheema Gul, twin sisters aged nine, trip home happily from their school in Ghareebabad village in Pakistan’s troubled Bajaur Agency.
U.N. Chief Recounts Poverty and Plenty in South Korea
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 28 (IPS) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former foreign minister of South Korea, is visibly emotional whenever he speaks about the striking political and economic achievements in his home country.
Schoolgirls Beat Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 28 (IPS) - Far from fears that female education is on the decline after the Taliban campaign against girls’ schools, female students outclassed their male counterparts in the secondary school examination for 2012.
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