Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1398
Sexual Abuse Keeps Girls Out of School in PNG
- Inter Press Service
Sexual harassment of school-going girls is one factor that may prevent this Pacific island nation from achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of eliminating gender disparity in education by 2015.
Q&A: Ghana's Youth Are 'The Future of the Nation'
- Inter Press Service
With a whopping 40 percent of Ghana's population under the age of 24, the government's ability to foster their development and include them in the country's development are critical to the country's future.
Hit by Fighting, Now by Prices
- Inter Press Service
As thousands of people flee the conflict in South Sudan’s northern border states, increasing numbers have also been forced to leave their homes and towns in search of affordable food.
Ultimatum and Military Option From ECOWAS to Avoid Stalemate
- Inter Press Service
Rebel leaders in Guinea-Bissau have released the country's prime minister and interim president, who were arrested in the country's Apr. 12 coup, and have flown them to Côte d'Ivoire.
Q&A: How to Empower Youths to Take Charge of Their Health and Sexuality
- Inter Press Service
Young people aged 15-24 make up a quarter of sexually active individuals, yet they comprise half of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) infections each year.
OP-ED: Carbon Doxide Emissions on the Rise as the Kyoto Era Dawns
- Inter Press Service
At the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the latest on-site measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography reveal that global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations reached 391.3 parts per million (ppm) in 2011, up from 388.56 ppm in 2010 and from 280 ppm from pre-industrial times.
AGRICULTURE: Farm Animals Join Rio+20 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
Human development and biodiversity will not be the only focus of the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June, for which representatives of hundreds of states and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) will gather to discuss sustainable development.
First School for Transvestites Opens in Buenos Aires
- Inter Press Service
With 35 students, the first secondary school specifically for transvestites and other members of sexual minorities who face discrimination in mainstream schools opened in March in the Argentine capital.
Canada's Trade and Aid Appear Increasingly Aligned
- Inter Press Service
Canada is ending bilateral aid programmes in eight countries and refocusing efforts in five others due to 'high operating costs', a move which the umbrella group representing Canadian international development organisations say is difficult to immediately measure but will affect some of the poorest countries in the world.
India Serves Up Costly Cocktail of Prophylactics
- Inter Press Service
Ignoring widespread concern over the safety, efficacy and cost of pentavalent vaccines, India’s central health ministry has, this month, approved inclusion of the prophylactic cocktail in the universal immunisation programme in seven of its provinces.
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