Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1428
Taliban Face the Music in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
Not so long ago, Gul Pana’s pursuit of a career as a professional singer in Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) province would have invited certain death at the hands of the Taliban.
An Assault on Multilateral Trade Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
India, Brail, and South Africa, the international grouping for promoting international cooperation among the three countries known as IBSA, along with China and several other developing countries, have denounced the ongoing attempts to craft an exclusive, plurilateral agreement to liberalise trade in services without concluding the multilateral trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization.
Could a Goddess Influence Armenia's Election Campaign?
- Inter Press Service
To the British Museum, she is 'probably Aphrodite', the Greek goddess of love and beauty. To most Armenians, she is Anahit, an ancient Armenian goddess of fertility.
Banking 'Leprechauns' Steal Irish Taxpayer Money
- Inter Press Service
On the eve of St. Patrick's Day, activists dressed up as leprechauns appeared in front of the Embassy of Ireland to protest Irish taxpayer money being used to pay debts of the Anglo-Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society (Anglo/INBS).
Conditions for Construction Workers Improving in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
A year after workers' riots that brought work on the Jirau hydroelectric dam to a halt for months and forced the government and companies to engage in national negotiations to improve labour conditions in the construction industry, another strike has caused tension again in the dam construction project in northwest Brazil.
Caribbean Mobilises Funds for Ten-Year Climate Plan
- Inter Press Service
Failure to adapt to climate change will derail the development aspirations of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom), researchers warn, siphoning off an average of five percent of 2004 gross domestic product regionwide by 2025.
Spain's Jobless Unite for Solutions and Survival
- Inter Press Service
Unemployed people's movements and associations in Spain are proposing alternatives to official job seeking channels, in the midst of an economic crisis that so far has left more than five million people out of work.
Q&A: Expo 2012 to Focus on Protecting World's Marine Resources
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations, which is hosting a major international summit on the global environment in Brazil in late June, points out that while the world's oceans account for 70 percent of the earth's surface, only one percent of this area is protected.
Urban Chicken-Keeping Movement Spreads Its Wings
- Inter Press Service
With increasing concerns about the economy and environmental sustainability on the minds of many U.S. citizens, leaders in the grassroots movement to promote urban chicken-keeping report a renewed interest in their cause.
Helping Child Cancer Patients Reintegrate in Cuban Society
- Inter Press Service
The days of doctors, needles and uncertainty seem far-off to Elián Acosta, a Cuban boy who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006 and is in remission. Now the challenge is for him to be reintegrated into the community without being seen as 'different.'
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