Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1355
Negotiators Lack Focus at Arms Treaty Talks, Observers Warn
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - More than halfway through four-week negotiations for a binding treaty to regulate the global weapons trade, observers are warning that the talks are a week behind schedule.
East Africa’s Financial Integration Slow off the Starting Blocks
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jul 17 (IPS) - For months now East Africans have been expectantly waiting for an economic revolution to begin as they anticipate the launch of a new standardised payment system that will integrate the electronic transfer of money in the region. But continued delays in the launch of the system have economists fearing that the weak financial infrastructure here is hindering its implementation.
Death Stalks Pregnant Women in East Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
MAE SOT, Thailand, Jul 17 (IPS) - From a wooden, weather-beaten building on the edge of this border town, Mahn Mahn charts dangerous missions deep Myanmar (also Burma) for the 2,000-odd health workers under his wing.
Poverty Drives Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 17 (IPS) - In an informal settlement of 10,000 people on the outskirts of Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, Tembari Children’s Care – a new grassroots initiative – is providing protection, food and education to orphans and abandoned children who would otherwise join the high numbers of child labourers in this Melanesian country.
Ithaca Ecovillage Forges a Path to Sustainable Living
- Inter Press Service
ITHACA, New York, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ecovillage at Ithaca (EVI), located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, is an intentional community of 160 people striving for greater sustainability, a better quality of life, and perhaps even a new model for urban planners the world over.
Pacific Coastal Fisheries in Dire Need of Protection
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 16 (IPS) - Coastal fisheries in Papua New Guinea, used primarily by local subsistence fisher folk, will face increasing pressure from climate change, compounding the twin problems of population growth and overfishing.
Archaic Laws Stymie HIV/AIDS Work in Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 16 (IPS) - Sri Lanka has long enjoyed a low 0.1 percent HIV prevalence but, as the number of fresh infections rises steadily, experts are calling for a change in the country's archaic laws that make sex work illegal and criminalises homosexual activity.
Teaching Madagascar's Mothers to Combat Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
ANTANANARIVO, Jul 16 (IPS) - Every Friday, mothers and their children gather at the community nutrition centre in the little village of Rantolava, 450 kilometres north east of Antananarivo, the Malagasy capital, to learn more about a healthy diet.
To Aid Afghanistan, Offer Less Aid
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Jul 16 (IPS) - It is customary to focus on the amount of money the international community offers Afghanistan: the higher the sum and the longer the commitment, the lower the risk of further destabilisation. And so the 16 billion dollars pledged by the donors for the next four years at the Tokyo conference earlier this month has been widely welcomed. But such aid may not be quite the virtue it seems.
Shipping Canal Threatens Culture, Ecology, Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
RAMESHWARAM, Jul 16 (IPS) - One hundred and fifty years ago, the British colonial administration in India proposed a shipping canal project that would allow cargo vessels, commercial liners and large ships to cut through the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park in the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka, thereby slashing 424 nautical miles (about 780 kilometres) off the traditional shipping route around Sri Lanka to the Far East.
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