Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1352
Child Rape on the Rise in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 23 (IPS) - A spate of child rape cases in Sri Lanka has angered child rights activists and moved the government to consider tightening the relevant laws and making the offence punishable with the death sentence.
Super Cereal For Mali’s Malnourished Children
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Jul 23 (IPS) - Millet has become the basic ingredient for an enriched flour at the heart of an effort to establish a local, sustainable response to malnutrition in Mali.
When the Rains Don't Fall
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 22 (IPS) - For many Sri Lankans, the effects of climate change can be summed up in one word: rainfall.
Celebrating the Olympic Ideal with a Big Mac
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) - As the 2012 London Olympics gears up to open on Jul. 27, criticism of the longstanding partnership between the Games and sponsor McDonald’s has stolen a small portion of the limelight.
Malaysia’s Green Movement Goes Political
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Malaysia, Jul 21 (IPS) - Three years ago, Sherly Hue lived the life of a typical career woman in Kuala Lumpur, working as a marketing executive promoting building materials. But one day, she received a phone call from her worried parents that would forever change her life.
‘Dirty Snow’ Hastens Glacial Melt in Himalayas
- Inter Press Service
KHUMBU, Nepal, Jul 21 (IPS) - Every morning, as Gian Pietro Verza walks up the lateral moraine of the Khumbu Glacier in this Himalayan country’s north-east to take measurements, the wind makes colourful prayer flags flutter noisily. That same wind carries soot particles that are causing the snow on the mountains to melt faster.
Austerity Package Sparks Protests in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jul 20 (IPS) - "This is war. Parliament has got to go! They're trying to make civil servants take the blame for a situation that was caused by the banking sector and which the government has allowed to happen."
Crops Failing as U.S. Simmers in Record Heat Wave
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 20 (IPS) - The United States is suffering one of its most severe droughts in decades, leading to both widespread crop failures and increased public concern about the impacts of climate change.
U.N. Urged to Take Lead in Aiding Cholera-Stricken Haiti
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - U.S. legislators are appealing to the United Nations to take a greater role in addressing Haiti's cholera outbreak, now in its third year and which has has left thousands dead.
“Famine May Have Ended, But For Us Hunger Has Not”
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Jul 20 (IPS) - One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa nation a year ago on Jul. 20, Miriam has known no other life than the one in the Badbaado refugee camp, situated 10 kilometres outside the country’s capital, Mogadishu.
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