Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1350
Silenced by U.S., Sex Workers Speak from Kolkata
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, Jul 26 (IPS) - Bare-chested and beaming in the company of many like him, London-based male sex worker Thierry Schaffauser wipes the beads of sweat trickling down his face on a humid Kolkata evening, and slams U.S. President Barack Obama.
Security Gaps Fuel Cote d'Ivoire Prison Escapes
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 26 (IPS) - Eliane Negui knew just what to do when she got word that a group of inmates had escaped from Abidjan’s main prison, MACA, earlier this month. After all, the 24-year-old, who has lived across a dirt road from the facility for nine years, had witnessed the same scenario just two months before.
In the Pursuit of Education: Burkina Faso’s School for Shepherds
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Jul 26 (IPS) - Salou Bandé is proud to stand at the front of the only classroom in the village of Bénnogo, 90 kilometres north of the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, sharing his knowledge with his students. He is part of an initiative to improve education for nomadic children in the West African country.
Protesters: Free Trade Deals, Drug Patents Derail AIDS Fight
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 26 (IPS) - As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House with a set of demands to end the epidemic.
Voracious Lionfish on Caribbean's Menu
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Jul 25 (IPS) - In a case of "if you can’t beat them, eat them," Caribbean countries have embarked on a new strategy to deal with the invasive lionfish, whose voracious appetite is wiping out fish stocks from Bermuda to Barbados in what scientists believe to be the worst marine invasion in history.
Record Aid Shortfall Abandons Millions to Their Fate
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 25 (IPS) - Global funding for humanitarian aid interventions saw the biggest shortfalls in 10 years in 2011, according to a new report, raising questions about the international community’s ability to meet a 20-percent greater need for 2012 driven by drought and conflict.
Cultivating Toxic Crops
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Jul 25 (IPS) - At a time when spiraling input costs and perennial shortages of irrigation water are breaking countless farmers’ backs, a small village community on the outskirts of Lahore appears to have been spared.
Bankers or 'Banksters'?
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 25 (IPS) - European media, political leaders, and the citizenry are bashing bankers again, overtly calling them at best accomplices of numerous illegal activities, at worst downright criminals.
Assault on Colombian Trade Unions Continues Unabated
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 24 (IPS) - Two months after a free-trade agreement between the United States and Colombia went into effect, workers and activists are warning that U.S.-stipulated labour reforms have not been fully implemented and have yet to result in promised improvements in the lives of workers.
Sea Turtles Trapped by Sudden Drop in Temperature in Uruguay
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Jul 24 (IPS) - A record number of sea turtles are turning up on Uruguayan beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and Río de la Plata this Southern hemisphere winter, suffering from cold shock and hypothermia.
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