Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1412
Protests Over Property Rise Across China
- Inter Press Service
Zhang Haxia and her husband received a knock on the door in the middle of one night last December. They were dragged from their home in south-west China and forced into a van. When they returned nothing was left.
U.S. Still Importing Illegal Timber
- Inter Press Service
Since 2008, over 20 U.S. companies have imported illegally logged timber worth millions from the Peruvian Amazon, charged a multi-year investigative report released Tuesday by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
India’s Job Guarantee Scheme Under Strain
- Inter Press Service
Standing on a patch of arid, degraded land, 100 km from southern Bangalore city, Ramapal, member of the ‘gram panchayat’ (local village administration), points to a roughly-dug canal feeding a narrow belt of green cultivation.
Brazil is a Model for the Rights of Forest Communities
- Inter Press Service
Brazil is one of the most advanced countries in the world when it comes to legally guaranteeing the rights of forest communities and reducing deforestation, says economist Jeffrey Hatcher in this interview.
Niger Onion Producers in Tears Over Market Glut
- Inter Press Service
Bitterness is written all over Boureïma Hamado's face as he prepares to return home after selling his onion crop at the Katako market in the Nigerien capital, Niamey. He's taken a big loss on the harvest.
India’s IT Elite Could Shape New ‘Asian Capitalism’
- Inter Press Service
The rapid currents moving the centre of economic influence towards an emerging global order headquartered in Asia were evident at the PanIIT’s 2012 annual conference of alumni of the highly prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), which took place in Singapore over the Easter weekend.
Pakistani Jazz Touches New Chords
- Inter Press Service
The silencing of music in the name of Islam led Pappu to give up the cello and set up a tea stall. But Pappu and other musicians survived the Islamist regime for former dictator Zia ul-Haq and the recent ways of the Taliban to return to the most surprising group of musicians to have emerged over years — on a dusty little street in the Pakistani city Lahore.
Cubans Meditate for a Culture of Peace
- Inter Press Service
In response to the pressures of everyday life, some people in Cuba are promoting meditation as a way to protect the mind and body and foster a culture of peace.
Brazil, U.S. Deepen Ties Ahead of Obama's Latin America Week
- Inter Press Service
Kicking off what some here have called President Barack Obama's 'Latin America Week', the president and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, touted a deepening of bilateral ties in her first visit to the White House as president of South America's superpower.
Austerity Plan Decapitates Greek Cultural Heritage
- Inter Press Service
The broken display cases at Greece’s Museum of Olympia, the site where the first Olympic Games were held thousand of years ago, have stunned members of the Archaeological Service who have been registering a stream of missing cultural artefacts.
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