Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1358
Locals Urge Fresh Negotiations on Padma Bridge Funding
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Jul 10 (IPS) - Amidst continuing controversy over the World Bank’s recent decision to cancel a 1.2 billion-dollar loan to Bangladesh to assist in the construction of the Padma Bridge – which would have been the country’s largest ever development project, worth 2.9 billion dollars – most locals have expressed deep concern about the impact of such a move on one of the world’s least developed countries.
Thai Farmers Fight ‘Global Warming Fines’
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Jul 10 (IPS) - Small farmers in the Baan Pra village of Thailand's southern Trang province have been living in anxiety ever since they were slapped with stiff fines by the government in 2006 and ordered to vacate their ancestral lands for ‘contributing to global warming’.
Family Planning Summit Offers New Hope
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 10 (IPS) - The Summit on Family Planning that is taking place in London on Wednesday is a bid to get governments around the world to commit more resources to safeguarding women’s reproductive rights, according to the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
The Guinean Women Who Earn a Little Coin From Gardening
- Inter Press Service
CONAKRY, Jul 10 (IPS) - Market gardening in the peri-urban areas of Conakry, the Guinean capital, is growing quickly, bringing in income for groups of women and giving them some autonomy.
Mauritania's Emergency Food Programme Under Fire
- Inter Press Service
NOUAKCHOTT, Jul 10 (IPS) - The sun is beating down on Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, and Habi Amadou Tidjane Diop is a tired and frustrated woman. Seated on an empty upturned bucket, the mother of nine is waiting in a long queue to buy food.
U.S. Urged to Increase Bomb-Clearing Aid for Laos
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 10 (IPS) - Disarmament activists and former U.S. ambassadors are urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to increase U.S. aid to Laos to clear millions of tonnes of unexploded ordinance (UXO) left by U.S. bombers on its territory during the Indochina War during her brief visit to the country Wednesday.
The Guinean Women Who Earn a Little Coin From Gardening
- Inter Press Service
Market gardening in the peri-urban areas of Conakry, the Guinean capital, is growing quickly, bringing in income for groups of women and giving them some autonomy.
OP-ED: World's Ailing Oceans Find a New Dawn at Expo 2012
- Inter Press Service
YEOSU, Korea, Jul 09 (IPS) - Gazing over the ocean somehow puts a human being at peace with the world. To build a home with a view of the sea is the dream of many. The expanse of water, the beach, and tide magically draw us to them.
Taliban Thwarts Global Polio Eradication
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jul 09 (IPS) - By ordering a ban on polio immunisation, in its strongholds along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Taliban is holding up an ambitious global programme to rid the world of the crippling childhood disease, say World Health Organisation (WHO) doctors.
Europe Dithering on Tobin Tax
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 09 (IPS) - Despite the grave financial and sovereign debt crisis sweeping the region, the European Union has once again failed to reach unanimous approval of a proposition made by its executive body, the European Commission (EC), to tax financial transactions in order to reduce speculation and increase state revenues.
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