Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1356
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.
Vietnamese Girls Grapple With Changing Sexual Climate
- Inter Press Service
HANOI, Vietnam, Jul 15 (IPS) - Conservative attitudes toward women die hard in Vietnam, as seen in the country’s worsening sex ratio at birth (SRB). Yet, social mores have relaxed sufficiently for women to tune in to late night TV talk shows to learn about the acceptability of one-night stands.
Conservationists Urge Ban on Trade of Turtle Eggs
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 14 (IPS) - Age-old customs and traditions that allow licenced traders to collect and sell marine turtle eggs to locals and tourists alike are driving the creatures to extinction, Malaysian conservationists charge.
World Bank Approves Contentious Ethiopia-Kenya Electric Line
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (IPS) - The World Bank has voted to approve funding credit for a major transmission line that would link Kenya to the controversial Gilgel Gibe III dam site in southern Ethiopia, pushing back against months of calls by local and international rights and environmental groups to keep out of the project.
After Turtle Hatchlings Destroyed, Trinidad Govt Defends Its Actions
- Inter Press Service
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 13 (IPS) - Ordinarily they live for at least half a century. But at least 20,000 leatherback sea turtle hatchlings never made it past their nesting ground at Grand Riviere, a stretch of shoreline along Trinidad's north coast, in what's been described as "an engineering disaster" last weekend.
UNDP Predicts Rise of the Global South
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - When the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) unveils its annual flagship Human Development Report (HDR) in mid-October, the primary focus will be on a growing new phenomenon on the economic horizon: the rise of the global South and the significant progress in South-South cooperation over the last decade.
Women’s Inequality Linked to Soaring Population
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - The world’s population now stands at about seven billion, and by 2050, this figure will hit a whopping nine billion.
DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate – and potentially dangerous.
Making it Compulsory to Have Women in Ghana’s Parliament
- Inter Press Service
Beatrice Boateng, a member of parliament with the New Patriotic Party, Ghana’s official opposition to the ruling New Democratic Congress, has earned her place among the country’s lawmakers.
DRC Warlord Sentence a Joke, Say NGOs
- Inter Press Service
Non-governmental organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo province where Thomas Lubanga Dyilo used children as fighters in his militia in 2002 to 2003 have slammed his 14-year sentence as inadequate — and potentially dangerous.
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