Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1382
Vaccination — Pakistan’s Missing Shots
- Inter Press Service
The deaths of 20 children, in an outbreak of measles in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Agency (FATA), are raising concerns over the state of immunisation in the conflict-ridden areas along the Afghanistan border.
Awareness of Climate Change Must Go Mainstream
- Inter Press Service
Addressing a group of journalists during a workshop in Bangkok, Ali Raza Rizvi, Asia head of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s regional climate change and resilience programme, noted that many Asian countries have become ‘disaster friendly’.
Thai Criminal Court in Line of Fire
- Inter Press Service
From its imposing 14-storey building, Thailand’s criminal court hands down verdicts that rarely trigger a backlash. Those condemned to long imprisonment include Thais who supposedly violated the draconian lese majeste censorship law that protects this Southeast Asian country's monarchy.
Green Groups Urge Obama to Attend Rio+20
- Inter Press Service
With a month to go before the United Nations Conference on Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, nearly two dozen NGOs are calling on President Barack Obama to confirm his attendance at the event, known as Rio+20.
Q&A: Earth Summit Deadlocked Until Eleventh Hour
- Inter Press Service
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro has been described as one of the largest international conferences in the history of the United Nations, attracting over 20,000 participants, including more than 100 world leaders.
Guatemalan Communities Have No Say in Exploitation of Resources
- Inter Press Service
'People haven’t been coming in for the past month or so because they are afraid again, like during war-time,' complained Juan Gaspar, a shopkeeper in the northwestern Guatemalan town of Santa Cruz Barillas, where a fierce battle is raging between locals opposed to a hydropower dam and the security forces.
Serbs Vote in New President
- Inter Press Service
Serbs awoke on Monday morning to a regime change. A close ballot in the presidential run-off Sunday spelled the end for incumbent Boris Tadic, who served two terms as head of the Democratic Party that toppled former dictator Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, as Serbs cast their votes for the populist Tomislav Nikolic, who begins his five-year term today.
Russia Still Struggling to Gain Foothold in Africa
- Inter Press Service
As Russia’s new president Vladimir Putin begins a new phase of economic growth, trade experts are keeping a watchful eye on Moscow’s policies with the African continent, which they see as a huge, untapped source of economic opportunity.
Q&A: No Single Country Can Forecast Climate Change Alone
- Inter Press Service
Cuban climate change scientists have been sharing their research findings and experience over the past few years with the rest of the Caribbean islands, using PRECIS, a regional climate modelling system, to help design adaptation policies.
While Men Go Drinking, Women Go Fishing
- Inter Press Service
Climate change may have led to declining water levels in Genda Village in Zambia’s Eastern Province, but Mercy Mwanza and the women here discovered there was a positive side to it and found a new way to earn a living.
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