Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1353
Athletes Wither Under Government Apathy
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Jul 20 (IPS) - He dreamed of one day running on international athletic tracks and worked hard for seven long years to make this a reality.
U.S.: Right-Wing Hawks, Arms Industry Rally Against Pentagon Cuts
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - While Iran, Russia, and China are all pretty scary, the ominous word "sequestration" is what is keeping right-wing hawks and their friends in the defence industry up at night.
Officials Decry "Appalling Gaps" in Global Data on Women
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - The World Bank and U.S. government on Thursday each announced major new initiatives aimed at expanding knowledge on the experience of women around the world, while acknowledging that much remains to be done on filling the global “data gap” on women.
Guyana's Gold Boom Brings Pollution and Conflict
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 19 (IPS) - Pedro Melville, 62, a father of nine from Guyana's northwestern gold and manganese mining district of Matthew’s Ridge, sees the impacts of unchecked prospecting on the local environment every day.
U.S.: Police Treat Condoms as Contraband, Rights Group Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - How many condoms is it legal to carry around in your pocket? That’s the question sex workers in the United States are asking after being routinely targeted by police for having prophylactics – not in itself a crime.
Malnutrition Implicated in Child Killer Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Jul 19 (IPS) -
Parents wait anxiously outside a Phnom Penh hospital. Credit: Mike Hodgkinson/IPSHealth experts are blaming high malnutrition levels for an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) that has killed more than 54 children in impoverished Cambodia since April.
Caribbean Moves to Protect Rights of HIV-Positive Workers
- Inter Press Service
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jul 19 (IPS) - Thirty years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, Caribbean countries are slowly putting necessary legislation in place to ensure the rights of workers despite their HIV/AIDS and chronic disease status.
Impure Flows the Ganga
- Inter Press Service
HARIDWAR, India, Jul 19 (IPS) - Every year Yogesh Mudgal treks miles through the mountainous roads of the Indian Himalayas during the holy Hindu month of Shravan, in July.
Côte d'Ivoire Law Offers Battered Women Little Protection
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 19 (IPS) - A shiver ran down Habiba Kanaté's* spine when she read about a policeman shooting and killing his wife in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire. "That could have been me," she said.
Look to Developing World for Solutions, Says New World Bank Chief
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - Speaking on Wednesday at his first major public address, new World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the institution needs to be more flexible and responsive, as well as more open to innovations coming from the developing world.
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